"If you compare the rates of growth in China and in Europe, are you sensible buying into a brand that's seen its best years of growth?" said Edward Radcliffe, a partner in Shanghai with Vermillion, a merger and acquisition advisory boutique that focuses on cross-border China deals.
Fougasse, for instance, Provence's native loaf and the bastard child of focaccia and pain d'épi, comes with fine, pungent and velvety Bayonne ham and "aged" comté that doesn't have the gorgeous granularity of the properly venerable: it all points to sensible buying.
Well, with just over £4,000 to spend, a 2005 example, with 62,000 miles on the clock, with full service history, is a very realistic and sensible buy.
Having a good 20th century fashion book in your possession is a sensible buy that will help guide your choices.
And on cable television the other night, I came across that scene in "The Women" where Norma Shearer's screen mother explains that when men get bored they can't do something sensible like buying a hat; they have to see themselves reflected in a new woman's eyes.
Meanwhile, several other companies -- including Motorola; the Konka Group of China; the BenQ Corporation and the Sampo Corporation of Taiwan; and LG, a South Korean conglomerate -- will soon try to convince buyers that it is as sensible to buy their expensive televisions as it is to buy established brands like Philips, RCA or Sony.
The reasons we love it – wonky stairs, creaky floorboards – are all reasons that anyone sensible would buy somewhere else.
However, they disintegrated when wet, stained the contents, and the clasps soon broke so we went sensible and bought lightweight, stiff, black plastic cases.
But then his practice started to grow, and it seemed sensible to buy an office building, rather than merely to rent one.
It is perhaps no coincidence that Allsopp came to fame on a television programme helping nice, sensible people buy their dream house.
Autodesk, which had invested $22.5 million in Buzzsaw since spinning it off in November 1999, said the struggling capital market made it more sensible to buy Buzzsaw than to keep financing it.
