Reporters can't draw common-sense conclusions, let alone challenge words like "regrettable" and allow a moral intelligence to shine through their prose.
Stevin attempted to derive his theory from unproblematic postulates drawn from common sense but failed to achieve his goal insofar as he needed to incorporate assumptions involved in his engineering practice but not sanctioned by his postulates.
Drawing from his innate common sense and wide perspective, Les was an educator; he was known to offer advice to many, particularly to those who were just starting out in their careers.
Just as the shooting of James Brady, Ronald Reagan's press secretary in 1981, led to a long, drawn out battle for common sense gun law reform such as background checks (the "Brady Bill"), so too did a shooting of one of Congress' own, in a state with one of the least restrictive gun laws in the country.
Mansfield made a great effort to bring English merchant law up to the same standards as that of other European nations, defining his position by saying that "the daily negotiations and property of merchants ought not to depend on subtleties and niceties, but upon rules easily learned and easily retained because they are dictates of common sense drawn from the truth of the case".
It advocates drawing on the knowledge and common sense meanings that users acquire from NL interactions in their lifeworld, i.e. the 'life-meanings' that are created and shared in social communities.
"Determining whether a complaint states a plausible claim for relief," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the five-justice majority, "requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense".
These include an attack on the fiscal stimulus where, he says, the Obama team failed to draw on "theory, empirical evidence and common sense" and on the bank rescue plan, which he describes as "among the most costly mistakes of any government at any time".
Just as the scientific definition doesn't touch on the issue of our common practice of correctly locating pains in healthy body parts, the common sense would probably draw a blank if the problem were articulated explicitly and the question is pressed really hard.
Kansas families came together there to draw attention to the need for common sense immigration reform.
And yet, how can people respect a system that utilizes the sophisticated tools of legalese, the purported due diligence of formal reports, and the officialdom of drawn-out investigations to impugn common sense justice?
