Sentence examples for sensible grounds from inspiring English sources

-- the favored policy, on the eminently sensible grounds that if French power were eradicated, Russia would face new enemies in its place.

Vostrikov displaces the sub's first captain, Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson), who wants to delay the mission on the sensible grounds that the vessel, a leaky tub that can barely make it through a torpedo drill in dry dock, is not yet seaworthy.

Of all Sky Atlantic's glittering imports, the one I'd been most looking forward to watching was Bored to Death, on the very sensible grounds that anything featuring Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis (the cretinous brother-in-law in The Hangover), and Ted Danson must be a comedic slam-dunk.

Our rules of tort law reject such deductions on the sensible grounds that wrongdoers should not benefit from their victims' foresight.

In "A Public Option Isn't a Curse, or a Cure" (Economic View, Aug. 16) Richard M. Thaler is correct that a public option in health care requires sensible ground rules.

But the new document offered no evidence of any sustained effort or desire by Mr. Bush to move his party to more sensible ground on two key issues.

This is one of the many reasons a demagogue is dangerous and a sensible, grounding question like the one Holt posed is so valuable.

But bequeathing opportunity, Hayek argued, is what families are all about:Once we agree that it is desirable to harness the natural instincts of parents to equip the new generation as well as they can, there seems no sensible ground for limiting this to non-material benefits.

"Others that have looked at it would say that it's certainly an online culture: easier access to pornography online has definitely changed some young men's views of women, and their relationships with women, and that's one of the reasons that I feel the need for young people to receive sensible, grounded sex-and-relationship education at school".

Libertarians are in general less than enamored with taxation on the simple but sensible ground that most people can make better use of their own money than the government can.

The land model used was the Community Land Model (CLM), which has atmosphere-surface coupling, surface colour variability, surface albedo calculation, absorption, reflection, and transmittance of solar radiation, absorption and emission of longwave radiation, sensible heat (ground and canopy) latent heat fluxes and heat transfer in soil and snow [23].