Sentence examples for sensible or not from inspiring English sources

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So has the view, sensible or not, that the technology is a good investment.

Conflicts of interest were common: firms linked by cross-shareholdings bought products and services from each other whether it was sensible or not.

These tests were developed for IVF prediction therefore and not to assess a woman's fertility - but people are increasingly using them to advise women whether delaying childbearing is sensible or not and to predict when the menopause may occur.

"'Well,' says the woman in the British Airways lounge, 'you're either very close brothers or lovers.' 'Can't brothers be lovers?' I imprudently reply – always ready with the pointlessly pert, whether sensible or not".

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The term "species" (whether sensible or intelligible) does not occur at all.

The New York Times buoyed this narrative when they went on about how Brown "was no angel," as if his alleged criminal history had any sensible bearing on whether or not the unarmed teenager deserved to be shot and killed in the street by the Ferguson Police Department.

For example, the Cochrane handbook describes the use of narrative synthesis 'where meta-analysis is either not feasible or not sensible', [ 1] and CRD guidelines refer to the possibility that 'a non-quantitative synthesis may informally explore how the differences in study characteristics affect their results' if meta-analysis is deemed not feasible [ 2].

"But free markets need rules," he said, adding that "if those rules aren't sensible or if they go unenforced, then markets don't work well".

They respect their teachers – or not – for sensible reasons such as how good they are at the job.

They are intuitively aware that these utilities and probabilities can be combined conceptually for sensible decision making about whether or not to test (expected utility analysis for the diagnostic test in that patient).

Mr Vaz, who chairs the Commons Home Affairs Committee, asked: "Why is it that we still don't have estimates of how many people are going to come here next year?" Immigration Minister Mark Harper said advice given to government was that it was not "sensible or helpful" to produce precise numerical estimates.

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