Strong international bodies are needed, he says, to enforce rules to prevent dangerous climate change and to impose common sense on financial markets.
It's unfortunate that a court had to impose common sense on the city administration when it comes to the treatment of mentally ill inmates released from the Rikers Island jail.
If it does not want a reputation as a full-employment clearinghouse for unapproved candidates, or further invite an investigation, the administration needs to impose some common sense on that operation — and soon.
"Our philosophy has always been to simply provide what people need and impose just common-sense rules of behavior".
These measures seek to stop ceding control of the marijuana market to untaxed criminal enterprises, and to impose new, common-sense regulations governing cannabis' personal use by adults and licensing its production.
The Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms that Congress passed in reaction to the financial crisis imposed a common-sense requirement on mortgage lenders: They must ensure borrowers have the ability to repay.
Over the past decade, I have watched as two presidents disregarded safety and common sense to impose arbitrary age restrictions on over-the-counter emergency contraception for women and teenagers.
While uniformly higher standards have been imposed on all pupils, research and common sense suggest that pupils do best when encouraged to do moderately better than their current performance and less well when expectations are either too high or to low.
A central precept of this approach is the recognition that while "election laws will invariably impose some burden upon individual voters... common sense, as well as constitutional law, compels the conclusion that government must play an active role in structuring elections... if they are to be fair and honest and if some sort of order, rather than chaos, is to accompany the democratic processes".
The voice of common sense retorted, of course, and what it said was that this colour was not being imposed.
