While it made sense for Tbilisi to seek help from a distant friend, it made no sense for NATO to agree, which would have meant confronting nuclear-armed Russia over border disputes considered vital by the latter but irrelevant to the West.
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The factors directly responsible for this change in the housing market are numerous and varied, yet can be fit into five major categories ranging from common sense to discriminatory lending practices.
If you would demand a good faith estimate from a contractor to fix a leaky roof, it only makes sense to demand the same from a doctor to fix a creaky knee.
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One is that fund managers generally are paid to be long or short, not sitting in cash or Treasurys, even when a switch from stocks to cash or Treasurys might make sense according to moving-average momentum.
We do get plenty of description on commands though, with some pretty thorough response tables and examples of "anchor text" -- something that the automated assistant tries to pluck from your ramblings in order to make sense of them.
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To spice things up, the Senate Committee invited Facebook to join the grill-out, giving one privacy advocate from Common Sense Media the opportunity to make fun of the social network for its recent failed PR attack on its co-testifier.
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This is a good sign, but it will be one of the biggest challenges facing Wall Street and financial professionals to change the conversations they have with clients from selling products to providing common sense advice about how to save for a secure retirement.
So what I'm trying to say is if the right thing to do - from the sense of justice or what kind of country we want to be - is to do this or that by our undocumented immigrant workers, then that's the right thing to do.
But fuel from algae might make no less sense than trying to make fuel from prairie grasses or corn cobs or wood chips.
So I'm going to be starting from scratch in the sense that I will be open to any ideas that help promote these goals.
Rather than installing more kiosks all over the place to handle peak demand, it makes more sense to switch from airline-specific kiosks to shared ones, which can handle passengers from several airlines.
"I wanted to get a sense from the people who lived there and who were in governance as to what was going on and used that information to chart my own course, " she said.
The only ones that were not were meetings that I had with some of the legislative leadership trying to get a sense from them in terms of what it was that they were trying to do.
Benchmark Co. analyst Frederick Moran this morning cut his rating on the stock to Hold from Buy, suggesting that it would make sense to take some profits here.
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So when it is necessary to fill a senior opening, consider whether it makes sense to hire from within.
In two years, America has gone from a sense of invulnerability to an awareness of peril, from bitter division in small matters to calm unity in great causes.
Considering RIMM has a vast network of carriers all over the world and does not lack in the front end communication part of the phones, an approach from Amazon to RIMM makes sense.
The two men do have a remarkable amount in common from age (Dole was 72 when he ran) to war wounds, from a lengthy Senate career to a dark sense of humour.
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions by coporations, does it make the most business sense to start from within by reducing emissions internally, or to outsource the effort by purchasing carbon offsets?
"What we are seeing is a sense of insecurity or, perhaps you want to look at it from another side, looking for a sense of insurance policy, " said Rupert Hoogewerf, publisher of Hurun Report, told CNN in November.
Though the software component still needs to be built, the feedback from the forceplate could sense if a patient is about to lose his or her balance and compensate to keep the subject upright.
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That makes no sense if you think about businesses trying to maximize their profit from any given transaction, but it makes sense if you remember that customer satisfaction is an important factor in the long-term success of a retail business.
Natural gas is becoming more cost-competitive with coal, but conservatives want the market, not politicians and bureaucrats, to determine when it makes sense to produce more electricity from natural gas rather than coal.
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He knows basically how to just free yourself from yourself, in a sense, and it opened us up to try a lot of different things and just be experimental in the studio.
If he dithers again, the argument goes, he is in danger of becoming known as someone who doesn't have the drive and focus to undertake a presidential campaign--or, to look at it from another perspective, someone who has too much sense to get involved in such goings-on.
And that, I think, is probably a bigger danger because at that point, when you're so afraid to make mistakes and you're so fearful, then it really drains from you any sense of purpose or passion as to why you wanted to serve in the first place, and you become much more concerned with just, you know, being in office than you are about making a difference.
Right now, my husband is fighting as hard as he can, and engaging as many people as he can, to pass common-sense reforms to protect our children from gun violence.
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To take just one example, from a public health perspective, it makes little sense to focus on the miniscule elevation in breast cancer risk associated with light-to-moderate alcohol consumption, when moderate alcohol intake has been shown to have a beneficial effect on coronary heart disease, a much more common condition.
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Now I've started to see alcoholism from this angle the whole disease process makes much more sense to me.
My sense from those close to the negotiations is that the collapse of the deal is the most likely outcome.
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