Sentences with phrase «on ordinary common sense»

Carter relies on ordinary common sense in a town full of extraordinary but not always sensible minds.

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«Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience and perseverance.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

Good luck with your courageous stand on behalf of science, common sense and ordinary people who rely on scientists to give honest and dependable advice about how to live on this increasingly over-crowded planet.

It was argued on behalf of the landlords that the salvage principle was not restricted to sums falling due only after the date of the administrator's appointment and that the principle required that as a matter of common sense and ordinary justice, the landlords receive payment of the disputed rent and other sums due, in full, for the period in which the administrator occupied the premises for the purposes of the administration.

Between late 1996 and early 2007, Canadian tort jurisprudence formally had, at least based on an (ahem) «common sense», grammatical, ordinary, plain etc. etc. reading of Athey, an alternative method for establish factual causation (cause - in - fact) on the balance of probability.