Sentence examples for merely reasonable from inspiring English sources

A colleague of Kaufman's at the Hudson Institute, Michael Horowitz, was more outspoken, declaring that "requiring some form of identification of voters seems to me not merely reasonable but long overdue".

Several feared that the legislation would not go far enough towards ending mass surveillance, given the NSA's continued ability under the bill to obtain thousands of "call records" from telecommunications companies based on a single judicial order requiring merely "reasonable articulable suspicion" of connection to terrorism.

Our most recent polling at Zogby International, however, reveals a state of affairs that could give Obama room to move forward with merely reasonable expectations and, as a result, greater chances for success.

Third, some critics focus on Rawls's claim that the content of public reason the principles of a political conception of justice can be presented as merely reasonable, but not true.

This capacity gives hope that the diversity of worldviews in a democratic society may represent not merely pluralism, but reasonable pluralism.

Alas, acquittal, as every amateur jurist knows, does not necessarily signify innocence, merely a reasonable doubt of guilt.

This week Gary Crittenden, Citi's chief financial officer, told analysts none too reassuringly that the latest valuation of CDOs was merely a "reasonable stab".

It could have ruled there was merely a "reasonable belief" Crane's charges were true, in which case no further action would have been required.

Jacques Chirac, France's Gaullist president, made the best of an awkward double act with his new Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, but he described the new treaty as merely a "reasonable step".

Instead, the boilerplate one-page pass/fail report in America merely provides "reasonable assurance" that a company's statements "present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of [the company] in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)".

Moving swiftly on, the fact is that by its own hardly lofty but merely perfectly reasonable principles, the Commonwealth Games Federation has disqualified many of its members from ever holding the games.