However, the decision to "tactically" put off its awards issue until the "next period" seems sensible given the success or otherwise of its namesake's "transition" won't be seen until May.
If the last election was fought on the post-crash, shell-shocked, shillings-and-pence territory of what common sense would do ("We're broke! Let's spend less money" – electorate strokes chin … "Yes, that seems sensible"), the next one in 2015 will be fought in the knowledge that common sense is a matter of perspective.
It might be sensible, in the next stretch, to make sure that the Russians don't take advantage of what they may figure is a reluctance not to take them seriously.
Is it so terrible to want to suspend reality in favor of magic for one day, as long as you promise to don your sensible shoes the next day?
"That doesn't sound very sensible," Ashton Carter, the next Secretary of Defense, said when Senator Kelly Ayotte asked him, at his confirmation hearings, about the advisability of transferring any of the prisoners now at Guantánamo Bay to Yemen, given the disorder in that country.
These are the consumers who not only hold the purse strings, but who are far more likely to splash out on a sports car one minute, because of the exhilarating drive, and a sensible hatchback the next, because it is safe and practical.
The AHRSE was followed in 2007 by the publication of Safe Sensible Social: The Next Steps in the National Alcohol Strategy Department of Healthh 2007) which reemphasised the general policy orientation of the AHRSE.
Amtrak is trying to portray itself as the most sensible use for the next federal dollars for transportation improvements.
This is an eminently sensible recommendation for the next administration, which is sure to find itself wrestling with new famines, hurricanes and wars.
