Sentences with phrase «majority of reasonable people»

The only way Santorum gets elected is if the majority of reasonable people in this country just decide not to vote.

Not exact matches

'' [W] e strongly question whether the IRS has actually established a reasonable basis to support the mass production of records for half of a million people, the vast majority of whom appear to not be conducting the volume of transactions needed to report them to the IRS.

People sometimes mention to me that I must be bitter about Bancinsurance, because I thought it was worth at least 1 times book (I thought it was worth more, but I felt reasonable people could disagree about how much more) and yet the board approved a sale of the minority shareholders to the majority shareholder at something like 0.9 timesPeople sometimes mention to me that I must be bitter about Bancinsurance, because I thought it was worth at least 1 times book (I thought it was worth more, but I felt reasonable people could disagree about how much more) and yet the board approved a sale of the minority shareholders to the majority shareholder at something like 0.9 timespeople could disagree about how much more) and yet the board approved a sale of the minority shareholders to the majority shareholder at something like 0.9 times book.

If we assume, as I think is reasonable, that the vast majority of these belief systems are the creations of sincere people striving to understand their god or gods, why do they have nothing in common?

Although you might not live in the United States, it's a reasonable guess that the majority of people commenting here do.

The vast majority of people who are educated beyond the level of high school know that evolution is far more reasonable and has more evidence to support it than do creationism or intelligent design.

All of these approaches are valid and rational and reasonable, and based on the fact that this man's actions are inconsistent both with the non-religious person's experiences, and what the non-religious person sees the vast majority of religious people doing, we can say that this man was most likely delusional.

The Obama people are apparently thinking in terms of 1980, when the majority had turned against Carter but weren't sure about Reagan — the polls were close only a week before the election, but the public shifted at the last moment as they came to see Reagan as a reasonable alternative.

What ideas would make sense to create an economy for those people in order for them to have a chance to become independent of wellfare after a reasonable amount of time (some years as opposed to generations) given that they have little skills at all, at least not the kind that the majority is willing to pay

It is possible to lose fat faster than this, but for the majority of people, 1 - 2 pounds per week is a safe range that will allow you to drop fat at a reasonable rate while keeping your appetite, energy levels, mood and training performance in check.

In short, it's perfect for the majority of people searching for an above average midsize sedan with good manners at a reasonable price.

Can the people of Illinois elect and direct their civil servants to do what is reasonable within taxation levels agreed to by the majority?

In contrast, I suspect that in the fullness of time, it will become clearer that the lower projections are both more accurate — and therefore more «reasonable» — than what the majority of people are using.

Reasonable people will agree that advisors should be fairly compensated for their work but the quality of the vast majority of advisors in Canada leaves a lot to be desired.

Surely the reasonable and sensible embrace of a «beautiful, low - consumption lifestyle» for the sake of a better life for a democratic majority of people; for the promotion of global biodiversity; for the protection of the environment; and for the preservation of Earth as a fit place for human habitation, could be one of the most powerfully sustainable and immediately effective behavioral changes the leaders of the family of humanity have made in a very long time.

Either people accept that these scientific studies are presenting reasonable findings derived from legitimate methodologies, or they invent conspiracy theories to justify the claim that the vast majority of scientists working in this field are falsifying the data and research.

Rationalist's problem is that when he doesn't understand what the vast majority of scientists are saying, he doesn't do what a reasonable person does and try to find out more about the science, he assumes he's right and the vast majority of scientists working in the field are wrong.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

The majority of the Supreme Court found that Ontario made reasonable efforts to ensure that Aboriginal people on reserve were included in the jury roll, even though the province's efforts to increase Aboriginal participation and assemble a representative jury roll were unsuccessful.

Notably, Justice Fish, in speaking for the majority, stated that written policies are not determinative of a person's reasonable expectation of privacy.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

«We applaud the CJC majority report to the minister that properly confirms that the question here was not whether the judge was apologetic, but rather whether the conduct under review is of such a nature that a reasonable person would lose confidence in the judiciary,» says Kim Stanton, legal director at the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, which was an intervener in the case.

(1) When the intended relocation of the child is within the school district in which the child currently resides the majority of the time, the person intending to relocate the child, in lieu of notice prescribed in RCW 26.09.440, may provide actual notice by any reasonable means to every other person entitled to residential time or visitation with the child under a court order.