Sentence examples for ordinary intelligence from inspiring English sources

In his dissent, Justice Scalia faults that analysis and would strike down the clause as "void for vagueness" and for failing to "give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice" about the punishment it will lead to.

Or, as Warren E. Buffett once put it, "Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing".

Real philosophy (Back to big, Editorial 5 June) is concentration not on fact, which it respects, but on the logic of ordinary intelligence: 1) clarity, usually in the form of analysis; 2) consistency and validity; 3) completeness.

While not abandoning his theory that the team's owners are more sophisticated than the average investor, Picard argued they should be tested by a somewhat lesser standard: what would a "reasonable person" of "ordinary intelligence" have done when presented with what he calls a "mountain" of warnings about Madoff's operation?

In a 2004 decision on a securities-fraud case, a district court said, in part, that "when circumstances would suggest to an investor of ordinary intelligence the probability that it has been defrauded, a duty of inquiry arises, and knowledge will be imputed to the investor who does not make such an inquiry".

In a court filing last week, Mr. Picard refined his case against the owners, whose defense so far has been that they were not sophisticated enough investors to pick up on Mr. Madoff's misdeeds, asking how would a "reasonable person" of "ordinary intelligence" have reacted to a close-up view of Mr. Madoff's operation.

You see them on CNN focus groups every election year, ordinary-looking Americans of average intelligence who have made only one decision in their lives -- the decision to be indecisive.

They respected local cultures, local histories, family farming, and ordinary people's intelligence.

Based on case law, many states use a "reasonable patient" standard for informed consent to medical treatment; physicians must disclose what a patient with ordinary reason and intelligence would want to know in making a medical decision.

The purpose, he said, is to get policy makers to focus on long-term global trends and to think beyond the ordinary concerns of the intelligence community.

No doubt there is some truth to this (the public certainly does feel excluded from politics), but the idea that sport is a meaningless activity beneath the intelligence of ordinary human beings is condescending at best.