Sentence examples for sensible against from inspiring English sources

A singleton is often sensible against a small slam, but is seldom right at the seven level.

This would have been sensible against seven spades, but was less so against a small slam, where there was a good chance partner had an ace or the trump king that would take an early trick.

Cities like St . Petersburgare rushing to repeal sensible ordinances against firing guns in the city limits.

It is also a sensible hedge against the shifting technology of digitization.

It's possible to advance sensible arguments against federal limits on the sale and ownership of guns.

If lousy wages force people to work around the clock, the problem is pay: it's not a sensible argument against shorter hours.

That should help discourage future efforts to portray Miranda's sensible safeguards against coercion as an extreme and extraconstitutional "milestone of judicial overreaching," which is how Justice Antonin Scalia sought to depict them in a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

The drop in productivity in 2004, on that reckoning, reflected a state of technology definitely pre-Google, and quite possibly pre-web.Stories about disruption from accelerating technological progress really can't be tested in any sensible way against available productivity data.

There is no vaccine on the market, so health authorities can do little but advise taking sensible precautions against tick bites, like wearing long sleeves and pants, using insect repellent and looking closely for ticks to remove after spending time outdoors.

A new law – Zweckentfremdungsverbot – has been described by Andreas Geisel, Berlin's head of urban development, as "a necessary and sensible instrument against the housing shortage in Berlin … I am absolutely determined to return such misappropriated apartments to the people of Berlin and to newcomers".

Compounds, 13 and 17 have sensible activity against S. aureus.