Sentence examples for sensible adjustment from inspiring English sources

Granting employees over a certain age an absolute right to keep their old pension plans would be a sensible adjustment.

"We favour a reasonable and sensible adjustment for Spain rather than focusing exclusively and excessively on deficit reduction," she told Spain's Expansion newspaper.

Well, while some may say this is a deliberate move by Facebook to force page owners to pay for reach using promoted posts, others could reasonably say this is a sensible adjustment to compensate for the growing number of pages that its users are fans of, and the increased number of posts coming from those pages.

However, in practice it is difficult to arrive at a sensible adjustment scheme: a researcher who leaves after six months could reasonably be supposed to have an adjusted output twice as high; but a researcher who leaves after six days … should the adjusted output be 365/6, i.e. approximately 60-times as high?

Yet it's a sensible Honda Civic with four doors and a practical boot.

Few sensible Long Islanders would spend $50 for any chardonnay for daily use.

That day's Labour announcement – some sensible NHS proposals on expanding home care – were buried in the media.

Quite right, but not really news: most sensible UK economists have been saying this for some time [FT paywalled link].

In his speech, Romney proposed some sensible Social Security reforms: gradually raise the retirement age and slow the growth of benefits for richer retirees.

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"The thought that U.S. jurors are capable of such muddled thinking is horrifying," the usually more sensible Daily News editorialized the day of the sentencing.