| Many people pitied my commonsensical, public-spirited child for being raised by an antisocial naysayer like me. |
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| These changes are practical and commonsensical and I hope they will prevent cases of serious error. |
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| The real opposite of the sublime is, of course, the intransigently banal and commonsensical. |
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| Nebraskans are a commonsensical lot, and they know hogwash when they hear it. |
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| In general, the American public seems to apply a fairly reasonable, commonsensical standard of benefit and cost when evaluating foreign affairs. |
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| And we all ought to go about our business in a commonsensical, calm way, and not in any way be distracted by scare stories or horror stories or headlines. |
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| In the Downing Street new year message, David Cameron struck his favourite pose – an optimistic, commonsensical, level-headed man of the world. |
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| America is not so exceptional that its people are impervious to the sin of envy, or to commonsensical notions about what is fair. |
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| Philonous needs to convince him that a commonsensical philosophy could be built on an immaterialist foundation, that no one but a skeptic or atheist would ever miss matter. |
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| A commonsensical, practical approach would be needed, which includes the allocation of some costs of support functions, and for others the establishment of standard costs and charging for these on the basis of actual usage. |
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| They seem fairly reasoned and commonsensical. |
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| That's an initial commonsensical distinction that I think individuals are perfectly capable of making and that can be enumerated and objectively determined, although sometimes indeed even that border is not so clear. |
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| Mr President, I wish to begin by thanking Mrs Buitenweg for this report and for her commonsensical approach to the issue she has had to deal with. |
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| We'll make sure your work is commonsensical and clear, powerful in the right places, and as open to the concepts of the future as it is grounded in the rules of the past. |
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| We are trying to do something very civilized, humane, practical, commonsensical and realistic and simply ban the use of pesticides when it comes to cosmetic or decorative purposes. |
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| It seems commonsensical to first meet people's self-identified needs before getting into needs for coercive measures, such as community treatment orders. |
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| But while this link seems commonsensical, the reality is more complicated. |
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| While much of what Haddick proposes seems commonsensical, it is unfinished, and this poses risks. |
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| A number of states have passed what pro-lifers believe are commonsensical requirements. |
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| Two, a noun is called a predicate genitive, when it is in the genitive with or without an adjective, and denotes a socially commonsensical attribute. |
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| Anyway, the point is that there is nothing 'natural' or commonsensical about this way of thinking, that it is all arbitrary. |
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| It was not easy to lend an ear to commonsensical observations in the chaotic atmosphere of the early days of the protests. |
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| And not even Tony Blair in his guise of Platonic philosopher-king is able to quell all the superstitious or commonsensical fears that people feel when men in white coats monkey about with God's own potatoes. |
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| The particular problem that the PM highlighted – the rigid organisation of services around office hours – also fitted comfortably within the Cameronian commonsensical pitch. |
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| Perhaps before reaching for their drafting pen, the authorities could check to see if there were not simpler commonsensical solution to the problem. |
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