But it is probably more sensible to accept and celebrate the endurance of great TV images.
If they drop below a certain number of MPs, several senior figures fear they wouldn't get a good enough offer from Labour or the Tories to make it sensible to accept.
As things stand, however, it seems sensible to accept that while Questing could not have been more stylish in her maiden, for now Regal Realm (2.50) has strictly achieved more – and is, moreover, entitled to improve again over this seventh furlong.
The only sensible response is to accept the degree of risk that they will always pose, and not pretend it can be made to disappear.
Instead of clinging to the sugar-and-spice or slugs-and-snails ideas of what we're supposed to do, it would be much more sensible for us to accept that girls sorry, women can be every bit as scary, violent, and irrational as men.
After all, it's sensible for a company to accept the opportunity to peep into a rival company's books.
Unfortunately, officials have been less willing to accept sensible compromise in the design of another important data system, the Multistate Antiterrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix.
Why, when the stranger tells him that he ought to put his feet up and enjoy the evening of his life, is it so hard for Stevens to accept such sensible, if banal, advice?
The still more alarming possibility is that, blinded by pride, the bank and its hitherto sensible president, Jean-Claude Trichet, are unable to accept that a euro-zone country is bust.Whatever the ECB's motives, the Germans are right.
While Mr. Bush has been forced to accept more sensible policies in his second term, Mr. McCain has become steadily more of a neocon in the cowboy role that Mr. Bush played in his first term, prone to solving problems with stealth bombers rather than United Nations resolutions.
There's clearly a lot going on here, and it's always sensible, as well as decent, to accept Not-Jason's assurance that the bloc is not all "hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage, there are women and probably transgender people too" as portrayed in the media.
