Sentence examples for reasonable rather than from inspiring English sources

Pinker's manner is mostly reasonable rather than revelatory.

How has issuing birth certificates to babies who never lived come to seem a reasonable rather than an eccentric legislative gesture?

For the growth process of the hierarchical Ag mesostructures, it is believed that the self-assembly mechanism is more reasonable rather than the epitaxial overgrowth of Ag seed.

In his press conference on Tuesday, Putin was trying to sound reasonable rather than strident, but the hint of menace was there throughout.

Though she has helped usher in hard-hitting changes in women's health care, Yoest is especially good at sounding reasonable rather than extreme.

Mr. Hun Sen, for his part, could stake a claim of being willing to compromise, giving the appearance of being reasonable rather than an intransigent autocrat.

The new law gives the police power to arrest someone in relation to alleged terrorism offences on the grounds of "reasonable suspicion" rather than "reasonable belief".

It is not that we don't want to argue with religious people -- we do -- but that at the end of the day we want to be able to say that our differences are the differences of reasonable people rather than of one reasonable side faced with stupidity and worse on the other.

In such a case, Hale reasoned, special rules were needed to ensure that companies would charge "reasonable tolls" rather than whatever (presumably higher) price the market would bear.

The results show that the reduction potential gives a reasonable estimate rather than the optical gap and ionization energy.

From this vantage point, cutting rates is really about restoring them to more reasonable levels rather than an outright easing.