Sentences with phrase «short on common sense»

These startups are essential to innovation and job creation, and yet they are also the most vulnerable to the uncertainties and expenses of a patent system that is long on litigation and short on common sense.

There was a time when buying a Japanese car marked you as someone a little short on common sense.

Luke is covered with tattoos, rippling with muscles, and capable of great tenderness, but short on common sense, good judgment, and impulse control.

Not exact matches

Perhaps the common - sense way to approach this is to accept the possibility that Chilean - style controls (taxes on short - term inflows) may be useful for some countries during the transition, but not too much should be expected of them (see the conclusions on Chile itself, which suggest that the controls managed to lengthen the maturity of the debt, without being able to prevent the exchange rate from appreciating during the phase of capital inflow)(see Edwards (1998)-RRB-.

In short, I see no way in which theology can get on safely without history, philosophy and common sense.

Just on a common sense physical observation of life, calling hetro's bigots (which Nick did below) for rejecting homosexuality is short sighted.

Dennis said — «Just on a common sense physical observation of life, calling hetro's bigots (which Gary did below) for rejecting homosexuality is short sighted.

Short - term, he wants common - sense steps like solar panels on the roofs of county - owned buildings.

Indeed, as you will read, many of you stepped forward on incredibly short notice to do just that when the budget subcommittees in the Assembly and the Senate considered Governor Brown's proposed budget, which contains several common - sense charter school items.

In his short and very readable book The Little Book on Common Sense Investing, Bogle presents a compelling case for what he calls «the majesty of simplicity»; i.e., investing the stock portion of your portfolio in the entire stock market by using a low - cost total stock market index fund.

His common sense approach to investing focuses on the long term, and avoiding short - term decisions that can sap yields through expenses, fees and commissions.

Your blog entry is long on attitude and short on demonstrable fact... what you present as fact is at best informed assertion... get real: most resumes suck because the writing is poor, typos are common, and the organization is loose... I should spend $ 1,000 for a common sense approach to writing resumes?