Sentence examples for reasonable and open from inspiring English sources

Probably, it was their way of appearing reasonable and open to negotiation.

You could also head further east to the Dutch embassy (number 10), where Koolhaas tried to embody his country's reputation for being reasonable and open in a cubic building that allows views into its inner workings.

All the leaders are trying hard at the moment to seem "reasonable" and "open to compromise" because none of them wants to be seen to be responsible for preventing the formation of a government and the likely fiscal chaos that would follow.

To any reasonable and open-minded person, this narrative is intuitively gross.

The media, however, has focussed on an interview that Kim Han-sol gave to a Finnish TV station in 2012, in which he comes across as eloquent, reasonable, and open-minded.

After Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retired in 2006, Breyer said he was in mourning because she was so reasonable and open-minded, and he greatly missed discussing cases with her.

Those who engage in interfaith dialogue tend to represent the most reasonable and more "open" interpretations of their respective faiths.

Differing among states, terms like "good faith" and "reasonable" are open to interpretation; in international settings, rights are more murky.

Villiers said: "This is a reasonable and balanced agreement that opens the way to a more prosperous, stable and secured future for Northern Ireland.

Obliging parliamentarians to publicly report their expenses and open them out for "reasonable" auditing would help restore trust, it says.

Shafik's appearance, on a talk show on an independent TV channel one night in early March, seemed to be an attempt to establish a new political tone: reasonable, open, and accessible — strikingly different from the lofty authoritarianism of the Mubarak era.