How To Use Reason In A Sentence

If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
If you accept that you have to do mass education - and, to keep costs low and for a lot of other reasons, I think that's not an unreasonable conclusion - you have to systematize it.
Email and Net abuse at work have become the number one reason why UK employees face the sack, according to a survey out today.
Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
I don't otherwise want to move: I have a large place in a convenient location with reasonable rent that allows pets, which isn't easy to find.

I think the argument of race as a cause of criminality like Walter brings up is somewhat off-point - The reason why those racial divides in criminality show up is mainly because those lines go together with education - or rather: the lack of good education. Can a Godless Society be a
That's pretty reasonable for being a motoring eco warrior. The Sun
For no apparently good reason, she told me that she hates the word "coochie" just as much as she hates the word cunt, maybe more. Drbigbeef Diary Entry
This is criminal negligence at best or treason at worst. The Sun
But the initial reason was unascertained and needed further investigation, particularly a toxicology report. Times, Sunday Times
No reasonable person wants animals to suffer. Times, Sunday Times
We may reasonably shake our heads at these romantic resolves. Times, Sunday Times
Our simple submission is the majority in the Court of Appeal got it right for cogent and sound reasons.
Laplace called probability theory ‘the calculus of inductive reasoning.’
Searle wants to deny that collective intentions are analyzable in terms of singular intentions, but he also wants (and in my view with better reasons) to deny that there are collective spirits or other mysterious creations.
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true. William Faulkner
The compilation(techniques) of legislation law and the limitations of statute law such as hysteresis effect are the(fundamental)reasons why Legislation Law is criticized.
Ireland we say 'aitch' that is the Presbyterians do - for some reason which escapes me Catholics say 'haitch' - another argument for integrated education. Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court
These people write reasonable, well-balanced letters, disclaim any belief in racialism, and back up everything they say with copious instances. As I Please
There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.
The primary reason for the adoption of this life-style is the attitude to the economic rewards of work.
I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
Of course, the kobold’s nonexistence is no reason to stop playing the game … Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia
One of the big reasons why many Americans don't like buses is that they are so rumbly. Why streetcars are better than buses
Indeed, there's reason to hope that even the most benighted moral equivocators may come to realize that the message is the exact opposite of the one they've been preaching.
One reason for his relative obscurity has been the general unavailability of his music: his works remained unpublished during his lifetime and, apart from some ‘easy’ tonal compositions, largely unperformed.
He has always been candid about his reasons for joining the army. Times, Sunday Times
CHAPTER Seventeen EMERSON was unreasonably annoyed with me for what he called my unwarranted interference. The Curse of the Pharaohs
There's a reason that those invites a fortunate few received, allowing them to attend the après-opening private reception at the latest, greatest Place To Be, the Feral Cheerleader, are tinctured with a hue you cannot find at Sherwin-Williams. James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California
Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable. The Worldly Philosophers
You can be morally unimpeachable for entirely selfish reasons. Times, Sunday Times
This is unsatisfying in many respects, for, as should be clear at this point, we often need to nontrivially reason about theories which Impossible Worlds
If it became possible for shareholders to sue firms where those firms might reasonably have protected them from insider trading, corporate Australia's complaisance towards insider trading could take a healthy hit.
There's usually a queue outside this pizzeria right opposite Cibreo - the reason being the excellent, echt Neapolitan pizzas made with the finest ingredients.
Is it unreasonable to expect her to offer to split the bill? Times, Sunday Times
For a variety of reasons, the first quarter of 2017 is expected to see a huge volume of debt issuance. Times, Sunday Times
We saw reason to believe that Abraham's case was a type of all other elect -- _elect for the service of others_. The Gospel of the Hereafter
The majority reasoning was most clearly expressed by Justice Hayne.
And so it remains reasonably fresh in 2003, if only as a result of its continuing underexposure. Globe and Mail
We show that such a variational state is necessary for obtaining a superconducting condensation energy with reasonable magnitude and for the effective mass of the charge carriers not being too large.
It seems that CSIS witnesses may have engaged in "prevarication," and that material germane to Harkat's legal defence has been withheld by CSIS for no good reason. Archive 2009-05-01
Today, the Prime Minister released his two options for Senate reform describing them as moderate and reasonable.
Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably for one reason or another. The Vitality Diet
Good luck to him: but there is no earthly reason why BBC radio should timidly do the same, and debauch one of our greatest programmes in the process.
Winning the Varsity matches, and in reasonably comfortable fashion, is cause for celebration.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture.
This appears to be a reasonable choice for the threefold channel, which is formed by wide vestibules and has only a short neck region.
Many ships and squadrons in the Royal Navy fervently believe they are special - and some have good reason to make that claim.
Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want someting. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.
But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
The childfree are a diverse group of people, much like the reasons behind the choice not to procreate; however, childfree people tend to be less conventional, more highly educated, and professional. BlogHer - Comments
They can have their cases rejected, without reasons being given, by nameless officials.
The reason is that the autopista has a toll. Times, Sunday Times
I. iii.21 (405,9) He shall live a man forbid] Mr. Theobald has very justly explained _forbid_ by _accursed_, but without giving any reason of his interpretation. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Fortunately, they were all reasonably priced; this could get seriously expensive if you're not careful!
I certainly don’t think that Iranian popular discontent should be disregarded, but we’ve been hearing these sorts of arguments about the restive Iranian population for years, and while I have no reason to believe that they aren’t true, Khamenei and his allies have consistently proven expert at deflecting calls for reform and preserving their regime, the main levers of which remain firmly in Khamenei’s hands. Wonk Room » For More Tehran-ology
Well, that's the rummest reason I ever heard a man give for quitting. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
Prisons overbook for the same reason holiday camps do: to compensate for the inevitable number of detainees who fail to show up for confirmed reservations for one reason or another, or those who escape. Welsh prisons overbooked
The game is no longer played for the thrill, but for quite different reasons. Times, Sunday Times
When sacramental participation had ceased to be the norm, people needed a reason for attending the liturgy.
It is reasonably priced in the context of what everything else costs this day.
The prosecution's task in a case is to establish a person's guilt beyond any reasonable doubt.
Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.
I used to muzzleload, had a TC Hawkin flintlock, as heavy as that barrel is it would take alot to burst it, dunno if "modern" muzzleloaders are as hefty or not, but I assume they are just for product liability reasons. Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said. Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain
Instead of the grim faces of commuters on their way into work, people were bleary-eyed but smiling for no particular reason.
One of the main reasons for the emergence of protectionism can be found in the distributive consequences of trade.
This conundrum poses two questions: First: does collective stupidity actually have a bottom limit or is it some kind of great cosmic suckhole from which reason and common sense simply cannot escape? The End-of-the-World Survival Kit
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. George Carlin
Like the 2-party system itself, there is little reason to argue that corporate charters are inviolate.
He spent some time expressing his preference, for tactical reasons, for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument.
The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above; but as the former are pernicious, and the latter innocent and even necessary, this is the reason of the very different reception they meet with from the world. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
The reason, it turns out, is that American airspace was shut down, and no airplanes means no contrails.
In a previous essay, we saw that a super-majority of evolutionary biologists self-identity as "pure naturalists," providing us good reason to think that a non-teleological prism is used to shape our current mainstream understanding of evolution. 2007 June - Telic Thoughts
Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers, her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific.
The reason economists are sympathetic to signalling is that they are very smart (yes, really) and are among the people who probably don't benefit greatly from college, they learned how to think at high school and are mostly self-educated anyway. Free Education Valued at Cost, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Moreover, many insurance companies (including mine) refuse to pay the $30,000 cost, reasoning that any economic benefit they would recoup is years down the road. Beating Obesity
She was arrested and charged with treason, a capital offence, but made no attempt to deny her actions. Times, Sunday Times
It is notable for excellent supplying and selling with good quality, reasonable price and prompt shipment.
For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
But these movements all fizzled out, for two reasons.
If you are in a pampering mood, however, order the smoked salmon with mousseline sauce crepe, which is very reasonably priced.
Workers in hierarchical workplaces cannot reasonably be expected to identify themselves if their opinions might touch upon their workplaces -- that's a disciplinary issue for most workers & most employers. Who Are You People? « PubliCola
Products may also be different for less tangible reasons, such as perceived quality enhanced by brand names or advertising slogans. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. George Carlin
There is no shame in favoring the .30 and below calibers because of recoil issues ... or just practical financial reasons. 270WSM....for moose?
The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone. Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party
Probability sex method can reflect systematic reliability better, affirmatory more reasonable reserve capacity.
They look good and we're in the process now of trying to scale up the capability of the manufacturers to be able to make enough of this so that we would be able to have a reasonable stockpile.
I replied that we daren't go until we saw a reasonable chance (if I knew anything, we'd wait a long time for one), and so we bandied it to and fro and got no forrarder, and finally went to bed, played out. The Sky Writer
This easy way to avoid sales tax is one reason for the enormous popularity of mail order in the US and it means that US Internet e-tailers are used to not collecting sales tax too often.
Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
There is no compelling reason why a Bill should lapse at the end of a parliamentary session.
In this sense, he saw scientific psychology as anti-life: the more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more myth we are capable of making conscious, the more life we integrate.
Known as chemurgy, the science lost much of its ‘reason for being’ after WWII when the petroleum industry redirected its attention from the war effort to commercial products.
There is good reason to believe that if the ban succeeds over here, it will someday reach your town.
Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
Of course everyone knew the reason for all the strangers - those faked tickets someone had distributed. DEATH IN FASHION
This was one reason for their eagerness to stress the roots of the police in ancient traditions of communal self-policing.
Smith who was against the League and Jones who was against Article X, and Brown who was against Mr. Wilson and all his works, each for his own reason, all in the name of more or less the same symbolic phrase, register a vote _against_ the Democrats by voting for the Public Opinion
Dear ladies (and sirs), that last is reason alone to try to remember to WASH - not dryclean - your (washable) fabrics when you get them home, instead of waiting until just before you sew them to preshrink them. Resolved. - A Dress A Day
Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue.
One reason for the easing in the logjam was the Senate's traditional desire to dispense with blocs of nominees shortly before adjourning for recess, which the Senate did in the early hours of Friday morning. Federal Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw
Anyway, what it shows is that the frontal cortex, where reasoning occurs, is deactivated, meaning that during the BIG O, the male of our species becomes, well, dumb. The Return of Ask Dr. SoT
In both instances the general test should be whether there was some reasonable or sufficient evidence to justify the action.
Unhealthy waterways and wetlands mean more midges and mozzies; another reason to keep our Hearns Lake foreshores safe from human occupation.
It comes down in favour of a blueprint that for sound political and environmental reasons will prove impossible to realise. Times, Sunday Times
For that reason its exterior façade is made of limestone on the ground floor and an innovative terra-cotta cladding on the upper floors. The Seigle House by Lohan Anderson
For a variety of reasons it has become my custom to mention my former colleague in the acknowledgements for my books.
But there is another reason why a war between the two countries is so much to be deprecated, which is, that is must ever be a cruel and an irritating war. Diary in America, Series One
They can have their cases rejected, without reasons being given, by nameless officials.
In most cases, a lack of beds was cited as the reason for closures. The Sun
He is a reasonable fellow.
Also, for some reason, interlibrary lending never did pick up in India (and most other parts of the developing world).
Since a significant element of judgment is involved there will usually be scope for a fairly broad range of possible views, none of which can be categorised as unreasonable.
This criticism that Romney seems to dish out with impunity is bording on TREASON ..... Romney accuses Obama of not protecting troops
We have every reason to remain indignant, disgusted, embarrassed and angry about this fact, but no room anymore whatsoever to feign surprise. The CNN estimate of the Searchlight Rally. | RedState
Stress is a main reason for debt.
The fact is that any Democrat's heroic war record functions mostly as superficial innoculation against charges of sissiness during campaigns, and it's the reason you see so many more Republican chickenhawks than anti-war Dems in public office these days. Hullabaloo
The state of the health services and the plight of many of our old people are just two reasons why we cannot afford to squander money on another stadium.
But a growing number accept school phobia as a valid reason to keep their little ones out of the classroom. The Sun
We have certain reasons for our decision, which have to remain confidential.
This I have done and I have told him that I can see no reason why I should not continue to try the case.
He believes one of the reasons the move ended up dead in the water was that negotiations dragged on too long.
I just said that one could resist the argument by objecting that there is no reason to think that seeing a non-physical flower sense-datum is the same type of mental state as seeing a real flower.
Was skin pigmentation a factor or a reason to preclude? Think Progress » Wall Street Investors Lavish Scott Brown’s Campaign With Money, Get Out The Vote Operations
The trial judge decided in favour of the prosecution for the reasons advanced by Mr Sheridan.
And there's a good reason for that: Iron Man 2 opened to a strong week and recharged the public imagination on all things superpowerful. How Not To Act Like A Superhero
Tough as steel in his adherence to principle, resilient, placable, self-less and generous beyond the dictates of fashion, steadfast in friendship, but not at the price of reason, he strides the world of mathematics a happy warrior.
The Constitution has a very narrow definition of treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. May 2005
Some of these commentators build up dialectics into an alternative to all previous forms of logic, something that supersedes such ordinary reasoning as the simple syllogistic form of argument set out on the first page of this chapter.
If the reform stuck to a market-based insurance system - so went the reasoning - access could be within reach of more people without causing disruptions to those benefiting from the status quo. Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights
In some things it may be well that emotion is greater than logic; but emotion _in logic_ is sad to contend with, sad even to contemplate -- and such is too often the reasoning of the untrained woman. Public Speaking
There is no reason to declare that Mars has been abiotic throughout its history.
He's far from a certainty at this stage but he's pulled up reasonably well.
The reason a hurried "Oh, I hardly eat meat either" has become such a popular response to another's declaration of vegetarianism is usually not that we mean it, but that we now know enough about factory farming to want to stop Scully types from telling us any more. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
It was one of the reasons we decided to stop offering it. Times, Sunday Times
The reasonble man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself, Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I strongly urge him to do so, if he can reach a sensible and reasonable compromise.
Even if you knew some delicious, salacious gossip, some tantalising indiscretion, to let it slip would feel like treason.
The simplest explanation is that such people are "gluttons"; and the most romantic explanation is that there is some psychiatric reason making it necessary for them to overeat. The Human Brain
So a coster is twice as likely to lose his reason as a soldier, and five times as likely as a farmer. SUICIDE
Any reasonable scenario must include a sizable amount of new gas-fired plants. German U-turn Won't Change Gazprom's Direction
There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
I stand by the statement I made earlier - there is no reason for the minister to resign.
Thirdly, he submitted that Mr Perry invited the jury to reason that Robert Kerr's psychiatric condition explained his alleged conduct.
His poems were published under the title of 'Love and Reason'.
It is difficult and unreasonable to separate the soundtrack from the film; they are symbiotic.
This week light was shed on the possible reasons behind this erratic display. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, one of the reasons Mao remains revered is that he is credited with “unifying China”. Matthew Yglesias » The Tomorrow People
The ailment is physical, but the reason for the ailment is legal. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Down the Memory Hole” Speech Restrictions, Supported by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Howbeit when they should come to sit downe at dinner, there kindled a strife betwixt the said two bishops about their places, bicause the bishop of London, for that he had beene ordeined long before the archbishop, and therefore not onelie as deane to the see of Canturburie, but also by reason of prioritie, pretended to haue the vpper seat. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
But now I have another reason to dislike the need for sleep - there is a fundamental mismatch between a baby's sleep schedule and that of their parents.
It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason.
Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
Loss of functioning lymphocytes is one of the reasons an individual may experience food and other allergies. The Allergy Handbook
One reason TB-control programs are so important is that antitubercular drugs are such tricky instruments. Tuberculosis: A Deadly Return
As someone standing on the doorstep looking for a good reason to enter the 'club', swatter is now gone. Sound Politics: King County GOP election results
Would I know one rider from another under that mask, if I had no reason to be suspicious?
There is serious reason to believe, though the details cannot be gone into here, that the lorum is represented by the "armill", though this is now a sort of stole which two or three centuries back was tied at the elbows. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
The reason we don't do it more is that coupling and uncoupling trains adds to the journey time.
Therefore, the search was in his opinion warrantless and unreasonable even though judicial authorization had been obtained.
(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
Again for very reasonable prices, they will restitch, reheel, resole or reglue pretty much anything. Times, Sunday Times
There is no reason, however, to suppose that this is so, and several of the denitrifying organisms have been identified. Manures and the principles of manuring
Fortunately, skin regenerates constantly, which is the reason why the strategy of eliminating some cells is a good one.
A key reason was that predictions of fossil fuel use rely heavily on economic predictions, which have been shown to be almost useless. Times, Sunday Times
Baker suggests three possible reasons why human sinus bones should be naturally magnetic.
I never used to like olives until after ST was born -- for some reason, now they really appeal to me and I'm always adding extra in dishes like Chicken/Turkey Tetrazzini or in Mexican dishes. Organization Station
One reason may lie in its unorthodox approach. Times, Sunday Times
It is for these reasons that singles travel groups have become a common option for guys to find interesting and available women.
This, however, is another reason for mistrusting the application.
There is no reason why a gifted aircraft designer should also be a capable pilot. In the same way, a brilliant pilot can be a menace behind the wheel of a car.
The reason is that depositors will withdraw their money and keep it under the mattress. Times, Sunday Times
(It wasn't until I was parked at the second new lek, which is actually the first new lek, that I remember one if the reasons I bought this Olympus camera is because it can use regular alkaline batteries. Grouse Diary Entry
The other version, known as original meaning, or textualism, is the view that interpretation of a written constitution should be based on what it would commonly have been understood to mean by reasonable persons living at the time of its ratification. Balloon Juice » 2005 » July
As a fellow pantzer, I find that it usually takes me at least three drafts before I'm reasonably happy with a story -- the first is my "crapola" discover the story draft, the second is aimed at what readers would want, the third to polish and ((shiver)) copy-edit. An Interview with Allison Brennan
He would certainly be made use of by the officers for the purpose of identifying the companions whom he had betrayed; and I had the best reasons in the world to believe that he would rather assist in the taking of me than in the capture of all the rest of the coining gang put together -- the doctor himself not excepted. A Rogue's Life
But then, is there much reason to think that countries at different stages of the Kuznets curve could even agree to enforce tough restrictions?
One of the reasons we made the film was to present a different picture of people who have been labelled as ‘mentally ill’ than normally appears in the media.
When someone seems, by any reasonable standard, so intent on braiding the rope, tying the knot, and hanging himself with it, it's easy to suppose that the best thing to do is to stand back so everyone can have an unimpaired view.
This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
Our ability to stress over trivial cultural issues while ignoring the extermination of the environment will make medieval peasants believing in miracles seem as reasonable as Einstein.
It is argued that the chiefs need accommodation befitting their ranks and of reasonable size because their jobs entail some requirements to entertain foreign dignitaries. Times, Sunday Times
Alcohol is water soluble, hence the reason why you go to the toilet so many times when you're out on the tiles.
But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
It was long after he established himself as such that he eventually decided, for his own reasons, to drop the ‘Montgomery’ from his name.
And when he was before the prince, he excused himself so sagely that the prince and his council held him excused, and so he fell again into the prince's love and redeemed out his men by reasonable ransoms; and the chatelain was set to his ransom of ten thousand franks, the which he paid after. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much, or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave — but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben
You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. Robert H. Schuller
Implements the total management to the product cost a primary coverage is must carry on the science to the cost the predict that works out the reasonable plan.
Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
The current test of justifiability is thus based on an objective balancing of reasonableness.
Like the pistillate flower it may be subterminal or lateral, but a subterminal pistillate flower may become a pseudolateral conelet by reason of a summer-growth (fig. 40-a). The Genus Pinus

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