Sentences with phrase «what reasonable people»

Federal action was required to explicitly enforce what reasonable people would think is obvious: Financial advisers should give advice based on what's in your best interest, or what the industry calls a fiduciary duty.

The actual time spent discussing anything that looks like what reasonable people consider «ethics in journalism» continues to approach zero.

«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 am not arguing that the elderly, the disabled, etc., need what reasonable people can agree is a basic decent level of health care appropriate to our society and the state of our economy which keeps them alive, but you are advocating giving free health care that exceeds what someone who pays thousands of dollars in insurance premiums every year can receive!

What reasonable people do, what leaders do is they bring these groups together to try and form consensus to respect the legal rights of people who want to conduct commerce but requiring them to do it in an environmentally sound manner.

This is based on what a reasonable person would believe (objective standard) and not the individual's subjective (personal) fears.

Actually, it stops short of what a reasonable person would believe would / should incite a panic.

But it would also, he suggests, give us some sense of what any reasonable person would say about the historical Jesus and thus might provide «a starting point for dialogue between Christians and Jews, between various Christian confessions, and between believers and nonbelievers.»

But there is only 1 and 24, so instead I did what any reasonable person would do when self - multiplication isn't possible — make the best damn no - bake Cookie Dough Protein Bars with ZERO kinds of flour involved.

Remain has engaged in a campaign of non-stop scare - mongering, which far exceeds what any reasonable person could withstand.

«What we are trying to do is at the very limit of what a reasonable person would say is possible,» admits Holder.

What reasonable person would have ever conceived of the vast amount of such power potentially to be held by one person at the time the U.S. Department of Education was born / reborn in 1980?

That's what a reasonable person would have done, maybe.

The narrator says that Penelope Lumley is «perfectly match [ed]» to «what any reasonable person might expect a young governess to look like» (p. 7).

The law says «satisfactory» is what a reasonable person would be happy with, looking at all of the information easily available to you, such as its price and condition.

What reasonable person who is paying attention to the world around them and is free from the denial and economic fundamentalism that surrounds us isn't aware on some level that: — the phrase «sustainable growth» is an oxymoron — there are about 4 times as many people on this planet as it can sustain — All this stuff (including food) depends on cheap oil, which we are out of — Every ton of CO2 is further decreasing what the planet can sustain, and — We're teaching the world to be as shallow and dysfunctional as we are.

I'm mostly concerned with what a reasonable person might see or conclude.

«If writings or behavior by a scientist doesn't comport with what a reasonable person's expectations of that scientist are, then that in itself is reason enough for condemnation of and a loss of trust in that scientist.»

Is this really what any reasonable person would call a «settled» science?

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.

In applying the doctrine of wilful blindness, one does not question what a reasonable person would have done in the circumstances.

By way of background, the test for contractual interpretation is what a reasonable person, having all background knowledge which would have been available to the parties, would understand the language in a contract to mean.

John can't plead that he happened to have no clue about the effect of falling hammers — the law doesn't care about his personal knowledge, it cares about what a reasonable person would know.

In order to determine if the conduct was negligent, we must determine what a reasonable person would have done in the same situation.

To determine whether the implied representations arose, the court considered what a reasonable person in the position and with the known characteristics of PAG would have inferred from RBS's words and conduct taken in context.

If this is just an ordinary - person on ordinary - person interaction, then the parties (both parties) are expected to exhibit the degree of caution that a «reasonable person» would exhibit (attempts to pin down what a «reasonable person» would do have proven impossible, though juries always know subjectively what a reasonable person would do).

One way to determine if your conduct was reckless is asking what a reasonable person acting under similar circumstances would have done.

It was found that it was clear that something had gone wrong with the language of a settlement agreement in a claim to enforce an agreement for the sale of a house but equally clear how that mistake was to be corrected by a process of construction to arrive at what the reasonable person would conclude was the true interpretation.

Reasonably is an objective standard applied by the courts as to what a reasonable person in the defendant / plaintiffs position would do and depends on the state of statute law, case law and community law of the time.

Contracts require a meeting of the minds to occur and, when terms of the contract are unclear, they are either held against the drafter of the contract (if one party did most of the writing of the contract) or judged based on concepts of equity, fairness, and what a reasonable person entering into such an agreement would expect.

The court determined that it could examine the factual circumstances at the time of the negotiation and signing of the contract to determine what a reasonable person would have understood the agreement to mean.

And that Rakofsky's performance was «below what any reasonable person would expect in a murder trial.»

The fair market value is defined as what a reasonable person would be willing to pay for the business.

Ultimately, what does duty to mitigate mean on renters insurance comes down to what a reasonable person would do as soon as he became aware.

Wea re mindful that RECO holds registrants responsible for advertising where we can get into trouble for advertising miscommunication because it includes what a reasonable person would infer from said advertisement.

Not exact matches

The irony lies in what is a now - accepted principle of digital goods: that when they are made easily available at a reasonable price, people usually end up willing to pay for them.

In a case where being reasonable is when people do what we want them to do.

''... it is possible for reasonable people to disagree as to what constitutes reasonable attorney review.

«We have a policy at Goodway: Any employee can submit anonymous feedback and expect a response from the most appropriate person (or a named individual if they specifically request that) provided two criteria are met: 1) No hate or vitriol, and 2) Include your own reasonable suggestion on how to change what you're writing about.»

By prompting people to set reasonable goals, exercise, and count calories — and by offering encouragement from their social networks — mobile apps may prove to be the missing link between what doctors know we need to do and what we actually do in everyday life.

Zuckerberg, a billionaire running a tech company in a region known for runaway wealth, is by any reasonable person's definition not eligible to represent what VandeHei refers to as «Normal America.»

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.

What did he (his administration) do or say that would lead a reasonable person to that conclusion?

What kind of thinking can a reasonable, intelligent person use to justify this kind of character assassination upon someone they hardly even know and had never had a hard word pass from my lips to theirs?

You seem to be a somewhat reasonable person, and I presume the cognitive dissonance that is required to defend what can not be defended logically prohibits you from even contemplating such a proposition seriously.

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

The linchpin of Professor Rawls» criticism of the «rationalist believers» was his claim that they deny what he called «the fact of reasonable pluralism,» namely, in circumstances of political and religious freedom it is to be expected that there will emerge serious differences of opinion among reasonable people on important moral and theological questions.

, we should ask «what would reasonable people in the real world do?».

This does not mean I am not a reasonable person or that my idea lacks common sense, and this does not mean that I listened to only what I was told.

Once again, people believe what they believe, and if somebody can present a reasonable argument for his / her stance to somebody who's willing to listen, that's great.