"sensible behavior" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to actions or conduct that is reasonable, logical, and practical. You can use "sensible behavior" in a variety of contexts, such as discussing someone's actions in a certain situation or giving advice on how to handle a specific problem. Example: "It's important to exhibit sensible behavior when faced with a difficult decision." Another example: "The teacher commended the students for their sensible behavior during the school trip."
Adeney has the behavioral-economics view that we should set our policies to encourage sensible behavior — the obvious example being a carbon tax.
Marriage means sensible behavior and short hair.
"There's an 80-20 overlap between sensible behavior on resource limitation and sensible behavior on climate change," Ramsay Ravenel, the executive director of the Grantham Foundation, says.
With what does Catherine M. Poole want sun sensible behavior to be compared?
Obviously, swimmers can mitigate -- though not totally avoid -- these perils by sensible behavior, such as not entering the water when schools of fish on which sharks prey are also present.
If Mr. Greenspan -- with his faith that markets, even exuberant markets, essentially reflect the logical and sensible behavior of investors -- is right, then the nation has ahead of it years of strong economic growth and high stock prices.
The described system displays a rich repertoire of biologically sensible behaviors and, thus, can be useful for investigating a number of unresolved issues in evolutionary biology, including evolution of complexity, modularity and redundancy, as well as for studying the general properties of genotype-to-fitness maps.
I do want to encourage sensible individual behavior.
Think about it this way: Are you willing to forego sensible web behavior when the likely outcome will be catastrophic, as you wander into the darker alleys and backstreets of the Internet where the risks outweigh all other considerations?
First, like others involved in popular health instruction, advocates of cancer education believed themselves to be remedying mass ignorance through the provision of scientific facts, which would then encourage sensible health behavior.
But Jonathan B. Berk, a finance professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and Richard C. Green, a financial economist at Carnegie Mellon University, have concluded that this behavior is sensible, even if largely fruitless.
