Sentence examples for unreasonable attempts from inspiring English sources

In the three cases examined, the panel said that none "represents subversion of the peer review process nor unreasonable attempts to influence the editorial policy of journals".

But he said that it was unreasonable to attempt to put artificial controls on scalping if consumers were willing to pay higher prices for tickets to sporting events, concerts and Broadway plays.

It would be unreasonable to attempt to include all the costs of technology development reaching back to Henry Ford, and similarly it is not necessary to account for more recent R&D costs.

Nagel (1987) endorses what he calls 'epistemological restraint,' which holds that it can be reasonable for an individual to hold certain beliefs yet simultaneously unreasonable to attempt to decide matters of public policy on the basis of such beliefs.

If these principles did not govern our moral attitudes, we would end up attempting the impossible, and, if the point of morality is to guide action, then that is unreasonable: any action attempting the impossible is bound to be pointless.

Another most untenable type is the angry, controlling oppressor personality disorder that makes it almost impossible to continue in relationships for more than a few days or weeks as they become more and more unreasonable as they attempt to learn how to control you (the platitude "familiarity breeds contempt" comes true) in an impossibly obnoxious manner.

It is unreasonable for citizens to attempt to impose what they see as the whole truth on others political power must be used in ways that all citizens may reasonably be expected to endorse.

Doha has said it won't comply, calling the demands unreasonable and a clear attempt at "limiting Qatar's sovereignty".

The Institute of Medicine committee itself criticized aspects of influential Air Force studies as "inaccurate" and "unreasonable," including an apparent attempt to associate a lack of proof of harm with proof of no harm.

When regional ecological security is threatened, governments attempt to regulate unreasonable behavior via policies and laws.

This is a demand shown to be unreasonable by the failed Logical Positivists' attempts to give the empirical meanings of theoretical terms independent of their explanatory roles.