Sentence examples for was being reasonable from inspiring English sources

Shorten, The Generous Statesman, was supplemented by a list of budget repair measures that the Coalition, if it was being reasonable, could do worse than consider.

When he decided to offer slightly less than the $1.15 million asking price for a two-bedroom in a walk-up building that required renovations, he thought he was being reasonable.

There were similar reactions to Kurt's scene with Burt, though reviewers were agreed that Burt was being reasonable and Kurt was not.

I thought I was being reasonable, cordial, all of those things William J. Bennett describes in The Book of Virtues (which he gave me for a birthday gift when I turned 14).

He's being reasonable.

"But it's also because we're being reasonable.

I'm being reasonable, he cautioned; my supporters want me to run for a new term.

They are simply trying to convince the court and the public that they're being reasonable...

While the idea of pooling resources to buy a home can be fraught with difficulty, the key, Mr. Griffith said, is being reasonable.

But we're being reasonable, and it just forces me to be more organized, more selective about how I utilize my time.

"Opaque data and limited benchmarks for comparison mean the [DCMS] has no idea if BT is being reasonable or adding in big mark ups," she said.