Sentences with phrase «more reasonable people»

Maybe the system will send more reasonable people to Austin who will work with reformers and others to get back on the path you recommend.

Not exact matches

Reasonable people realize when a mistake has been made and more often than not, owning up to it solves the problem.

This is ideal for encouraging people that they can fit a visit into their schedule and, more importantly, making sure people conclude their visits in a reasonable time frame.

«No Tankers» supporters might still wish their B.C. representatives rattled their sabres more aggressively, but remember, in politics (well, in Canadian politics), the person that convinces people that they are the most reasonable usually wins.

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.

Plurality support will tend to go with whoever seems more reasonable - though the reasons political actors give will have some impact on what people see as reasonable.

Let's teach kids that primitive people still cling to ancient folklore, but that those beliefs are no more reasonable than believing the Easter Bunny lays colored eggs.

There are far more reasonable explanations for why people believe in gods and form religions.

But in practice we often forget this simple fact which no reasonable person will deny, if we claim complete freedom for ourselves, whereas the love of peace and unity should make us more cautious and humble.

There is nothing more powerful to alienate reasonable people from your sort than your ignorant rants.

That is much more reasonable argument than «People just know what's right and wrong.»

Most Iowans are reasonable people, leaning more toward the middle.

The Church does need to change its hardline attitudes in order to make itself more reasonable to today's thinking person — some see this as compromise; I see it as progress.

If Christians would just follow Jesus» example and keep their nose out of matters that don't concern them they would get a lot more respect from rational reasonable people like myself.

It is actually more reasonable than not to conclude that Jesus was an actual living person.

I am a genuinely more reasonable and happy person than I was before, which has to make me a better husband who is easier to get along with.

«Nothing is more repugnant to capable, reasonable people than grace,» wrote John Wesley a long time ago.

All the pro-Rand rants sound more like «devoted» Scientologists defending their fake prophet than sounding like reasonable people discussing the pros and cons of some made - up economic theories.

But if we assume that a good man and a good woman understand those boundaries, why would getting coffee and learning more about the other person not be healthy, enjoyable and within any reasonable scope of OK?

What I mean is that the fear of a group of pointy white - hooded people is more reasonable than fear of a group of immigrants.

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.

And it is even more natural and reasonable for someone in religious community A to invite people in religious community B who do not believe the teachings of B but do believe the teachings of A to leave B and join A. That, it seems to me, is precisely what Pope Benedict did in establishing the ordinariate for Anglicans who wish to join the Catholic Church while retaining certain aspects of their Anglican heritage.

We need more of this, it is about time reasonable people stand up to the sillyness of religion.

It is more reasonable and in line with our biological understanding of development to suppose that the capacity for experience, and therefore intrinsic value, increases with the developing person from the fertilized ovum onward.

More reasonable is the Bantu concept of Muntu, «meaning - giver,» a class to which people, spirits and God all belong.

That sophisticated English literary palettes thought this a reasonable claim» and that Canadian Yann Martel's The Life of Pi has since become a bestseller» may be an indication that growing numbers of people, thirsting for more substance in their lives, are beginning to seek more substance in their reading.

They are driving more people into the camp that finds abortion to be a reasonable choice, at least under certain conditions.

By end of week two, I had 62 «reasonable matches» (people who were more than a 60 % match).

I'm one of those people that loves spending hours in the kitchen, so an extra 9 minutes for perfect hummus sounds more than reasonable!

And @The Analyzer calling me «dumb and brainless» is not going to make you smart and is not going to make the point you are making more reasonable or correct.So no need for name calling, let us just dismiss (attack) the idea people are making rather than the people.

If Nebraska hires a candidate with FBS head coaching experience, it's pretty reasonable to assume that person is making about $ 3 million a year, if not more.

If the words your or your spouse are using are inappropriate, however, and wouldn't be used around a group of your peers (meaning other moms with toddlers or any reasonable person who has ever had a child), then you should definitely talk to them about using more appropriate terms.

Most people will have reasonable skill in more than one of these intelligences.

However, he's a reasonable person and understands that right now, in this season of our lives, this tiny and completely dependent person needs me a bit more than he does.

It is much more disturbing that there can be so much variation within one hospital: Going to Ein Karem was a totally reasonable choice for a mother who wanted to be with her babies a lot — it worked for you and for many other people (myself included; when my son was born there I had him by my side from his birth to our discharge other than when I asked the nurses to watch him while I took a shower), but then you hear nightmare stories like this one.

As a matter of fact, the term «populism» is commonly (assuming more or less sensible and reasonable people) used for a way of unreasonable, partly violent, acting, ignorant thinking (not necessarily uneducated) and hostile feeling.

More controversially, they also cover material relating to government policy formulation (including the background information on which decisions were based) and anything else which «would in the reasonable opinion of a qualified person be likely to prejudice the effect conduct of public affairs» - something again left undefined in the Act.

@Philipp - It's reasonable to think crime is more prevalent when people are given the impression they won't get prosecuted.

«But because of more stringent laws at a time when society was different, courts overcharged people and maximized their sentences beyond what is considered reasonable by a civilized society.»

I am a first generation immigrant, and that is how I see the people around me, I can clearly weigh my options and see that my prospects of living here are more reasonable than my home country.

This answer makes the more reasonable assumption that there is a significant number of people voting in each state while the other answer truly minimizes the popular vote.

«I'm not picking sides,» he said, «but if I were, I think the trail people are being more reasonable.»

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

«I wish we would have been able to do this before, but sometimes, you know, it gets to a point that when you're in a crisis, then people are more willing to be more reasonable.»

The second proposal would have captured magic words as well as «functional equivalents of express advocacy,» which according to a 1987 federal court ruling are ads that «could only be interpreted by a reasonable person as containing advocacy of the election or defeat of one or more clearly identified candidates.»

You can hear me almost chuckling, because it's not reasonable, it's not rational, and as the years click by, it's ever more preposterous, but people still stick to their guns.

Force train fares to be more reasonable and services more efficient and people will naturally choose to travel on them instead!

While there's reasonable evidence to support the use of the ketogenic diet for clinical purposes as mentioned above, the use of the ketogenic diet for people just looking to optimize their diet and lose weight is a bit more controversial.

Kresser says that it's more than reasonable to expect the same relationship to exist in humans, and to remember that for thousands of years of human evolution, people ate animals in their entirety.

[85][86] In general as of 2016, robust clinical data is lacking, that shows that any kind of dietary supplementation does more good than harm for people who are healthy and eating a reasonable diet but there is clear data showing that dietary pattern and lifestyle choices are associated with health outcomes.