Sentence examples for have been reasonable from inspiring English sources

For this reason, it could well have been reasonable for Mrs. Clinton to conclude that private email servers would not only serve her interest better, but also the interests of the United States in so far as encryption technology or other cyber security measures would be more up-to-date in the equipment not generally available to the government bureaucracy.

"All four candidates have been reasonable and willing to talk and listen," Mr. Spinola said.

In negotiations over a new contract for teachers, his demands have been reasonable.

I thus have taken risks, while asserting my independence, irrespective of what might have been reasonable.

A jump to three spades would have been reasonable; and even four spades was conceivable.

The service is not free, but medical bills have been reasonable.

That may have been reasonable, but it was not what Tata management wanted to hear.

They anger people who might before have been reasonable, so that more of them turn to extremism.

Some of their forecasts of the impact of departure have been reasonable; some have escalated into hyperbole.

Once it might have been reasonable for Mr Karadzic to gamble that the tribunal would eventually expire, concedes Ms Arbour.

So it might have been reasonable to assume that analysts' recommendations are better in bearish markets than bullish ones.