It all seemed sensible on paper, as if it should hold together.
As is often the case with financial regulation that follows a crisis, the risk is that the new rules, while sensible on paper, will be too late.
It sounds sensible, on paper, but the idea of establishing a robot as a liable legal person presents a number of issues.
This is a sensible approach, on paper.
The news story said that all sensible businessmen the paper had talked to were glad that the nonsense was over with, but the editorial-writer & Mr. Sullivan spoke in the great tradition.
The switch to universal credit, says the Guardian, was a sensible idea "on paper".
We now need to choose the arbitrary value of the 'standard' pH, in addition to Sebera's 'standard' 20 °C and 50%% RH, and it might be sensible to use print paper as the type of paper most prevalent in contemporary paper collections, with pH ~8.
Many of the proposals in the white paper are sensible.
If he went further speeding parole hearings for the 2,400 or so who have completed their tariff he would be some distance towards his department's goal of cutting 3,000 prison places.Most of the proposals in the green paper are sensible, if properly funded and implemented, though if they amount to a "revolution" it is one that has been brewing for over a century.
But then sensible opinions seldom sell papers, and for fervent fans, febrile reactions are half the fun.
We believe the proposal in the white paper is a sensible compromise".
