Sentence examples for far from sensible from inspiring English sources

Given the money pump argument and the puzzle of the self-torturer, we can, it seems, conclude that although intransitive preferences are sometimes understandable, acting on them can be far from sensible.

Far from a sensible discussion of the merits of different voting systems, we have seen torrents of what Jack Straw rightly described as "hyperbole and abuse" – how "old politics" is that?

They are all too close to the beach, too far from the rational, sensible and orderly, too nomadic in their aesthetic sensibility.

Indeed, they have begun to grasp that excessive regulation of labour markets, far from being a sensible response to slower growth, is actually a significant cause of it.

Far from adding to sensible debate, George Soros, Chalmers Johnson, Robert Jay Lifton, Emmanuel Todd and Tariq Ali seem locked in a competitive struggle to see who can most furiously malign the United States.

Mrs. Clinton's attempt to reset relations with Russia, though far from successful, was a sensible effort to improve interactions with a rivalrous nuclear power.

But it is far from clear that this sensible conclusion has justified punishing men and women whose principal offense seems to have been that of raising fundamental (however ill-conceived) objections to the established political, economic, and social arrangements in the United States.

He closes by saying:Far from showing that securitization absolves lenders from sensible underwriting standards, what this shows is that the securitization market of 2004-2006 absolendersnders from sensible underwriting standards.

There is, in short, a lot of politics to contend with, which makes a sensible outcome far from assured.

This isn't a lament for the oppositions that electricity's stolen from us; she's far too sensible and interested for that.

7.42pm: Sensible stuff so far from the Russians: 11 0-0 0-0 - both sides castle.