Sentence examples for guided by common sense from inspiring English sources

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In a televised interview Tuesday, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said officers would be guided by common sense.

Instead of being constrained by ideology, it would be guided by common sense and practicality in its search for solutions.

So I also want to underscore that while investigators are gathering additional evidence on the ground, our understanding of what has already happened in Syria is grounded in facts, informed by conscience and guided by common sense.

Under state law, these requests may be denied, guided by "common sense and the potential for harm that would arise by means of disclosure," or if disclosure "would be damaging to an individual or preclude a government agency from carrying out its duties".

Critics ranging from Glenn Beck to Paul Ryan have said Wilson led the nation away from its original basis — a self-governing citizenry guided by common sense and represented by legislators attuned to local concerns — and replaced it with a regime of policy experts "devoted to high principle," as the political theorist Willmoore Kendall put it in 1960.

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On an M5 cruising through the Upper West Side one morning last week, passengers reached up occasionally to signal their destinations — "Springy!" one declared after a pull, and "It's like we're going backward in time," said another — a ritual guided as much by common sense as by muscle memory.

(Thankfully, I was guided mostly not by economic "science" but by common sense).

Stands to reason, by common sense.

This assumption is made by common sense.

But it is usually checked by common sense.

Brains accompanied by common sense".

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