Sentence examples for sensible in principle from inspiring English sources

This is why the Tef is sensible in principle but needs to reward inclusion not exclusion.

On the enforcement side, Utah's new laws have some aspects that are sensible in principle, including stricter procedures for verifying immigrants' eligibility to work.

Guardian columnist Steve Hewlett wrote recently that the strategy is sensible in principle: "Put simply, too many of ITV's hits are made (and ultimately owned) by other people – think The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent.

BEIRUT -- President Barack Obama's bold move to lead a coalition of countries to degrade, contain and defeat the "Islamic State" group in Syria and Iraq through a combination of military and political means is sensible in principle, but it is likely to run into a serious problem -- one that has plagued other such endeavors.

The third criteria used to justify removals relied on the aforementioned statistical misfits of some items identified in the Rasch Analysis —e.g., too high Infit/Outfit statistics—, which would be quite sensible, in principle.

I know this is breaking the law (and a law that I think is a fair and sensible law, in principle).

In principle a sensible idea to bring economies of scale to the countryside by selling farmland, these have become a nightmare of abusive, uncompensated eviction.

By its proponents' own definition, substance is that which underlies an object's properties, including its sensible properties; it is therefore in principle unobservable.

The religious scholars eventually came to a sensible consensus that coffee was, in principle, permissible.

The bureaucrats of Brussels do not enjoy the same public esteem as the sleek administrators of Paris, but they are well rewarded in other ways.In places like Canada, where the need to hire and deploy government personnel in a more rational way is recognised in principle, at least, sensible changes have had unexpected results.

In principle, it appears sensible to differentiate between two different dimensions of market integration (see Table 1) [5-7].