Sentence examples for natural reasonable from inspiring English sources

The word eikōs (a participial form of the verb eoika, "to be like") is, argues Burnyeat, usually translated as "probable"; but as textual evidence from Homer to Plato proves it also means "appropriate", "fitting", "fair", "natural", "reasonable".

At its worst, which is how we commonly find it, religious principles and institutions disturb and pervert that natural and reasonable moral standards that human nature has provided us with.

Their crimes are presented to us as natural and reasonable.

That is, what conditions pertain in his world that make those feelings possible, natural, and reasonable?

The public and press have a constitutionally protected right to view criminal trials, and the use of television cameras is a natural and reasonable extension of that right.

"It's both natural and reasonable that in a fast-growing, competitive market, innovators seek to protect their breakthroughs using our patent system".

It is natural and reasonable that Africans should resent the wrongs done to Africa during the colonial period, but resentment pays no wages.

This was the heyday of progressive reform: to a generation of Protestant reformers, using the power of the state to regulate the anarchy of the industrial city and improve the lot of ordinary workers seemed only natural and reasonable.

But Marlowe enthusiasts readily concur with the scholar J. B. Steane, who has said, "It is not sentimental or romantic to see the man in the work to a greater extent than is true of most artists: it is natural and reasonable".

However, it is also natural and reasonable to consider that those techniques must be content-dependent.

Indeed, there is no other natural or reasonable basis on which to found our sentiments toward God.