Parties should be able to make such offers and encouraged to do so because, if sensible offers are accepted, the costs of litigation, which in the end do nobody any good, are avoided.
Councillor Lucas said on Wednesday the city council would listen to "reasonable and sensible offers" for the freehold.
The talk can be programmed out, but it might have been sensible to offer it as a bonus track instead.
Kerry must now be asking himself whether it was entirely sensible to offer such diplomatic, financial and military support to Sisi unconditionally before their meeting and before the court announced its verdict.
Shareholders now want to see a selection of chief executives of other companies, active or retired, sitting on the compensation committee, combining an ability to understand immensely complex compensation schemes with a sense of what it is both reasonable and sensible to offer.
Both called for the defeat of the Senate Democratic plan, and both were written by leading figures on their respective side of the ideological fence, but only one had something sensible to offer.
Matthew Pointon, property economist at Capital Economics, said the move from a slab system was sensible but offered no lasting benefit to first-time buyers.
The bank said: The decision to sell the dairies business to Muller looks very sensible and offers a far more focused business on cheese and spreads.
