MADRID — The Spanish defense minister, Carme Chacón, said Wednesday that five years would be a "reasonable" timeframe for NATO forces to withdraw from Afghanistan, just as major European powers officially called on the United Nations to convene an international conference before the end of the year to set new "benchmarks and timelines".
The Republican women who forced House leadership to withdraw this one bill aren't "reasonable" – they're just smart enough to know that they need to shroud just how radically anti-woman their party really is.
In a statement, the Canadian government said it was "duty bound to withdraw charges where there is no reasonable prospect of conviction or if it is not in the public interest to proceed".
"The only reasonable action for the authors of these letters to take would be to withdraw their requests".
President Trump has threatened to withdraw from NAFTA if his negotiators can't get new reasonable terms that protect American manufacturing and American workers.
Lord Lamont, the former Chancellor, became the latest senior Tory to support Lord Lawson's call for Britain to withdraw from the EU but said: "It is perfectly logical, and reasonable actually, to make one final attempt to renegotiate our relationship".
The former suggested 3,000 would be a reasonable number; this was, in reality the number of sick and unreliable Italians Franco wished to withdraw.
The government has kept (though rarely used) the right to withdraw a licence if a company fails to commercialise an invention within a reasonable period.
The Legal Services Commission (LSC), which runs the legal aid scheme in England and Wales, says of its decision to withdraw funding that it "can only spend taxpayers' money where we believe there is a reasonable prospect of success".
The decision to withdraw her Kazakhstan job offer in January this year was based on legislation which obliges employers to make "reasonable adjustments", such as the funding of specialist equipment or assistance, to allow disabled staff to carry out their work.
