But for Senators who were persuaded that the treaty is inimical to American security interests, delaying its consideration while the Clinton Administration sought to neutralize their opposition and gain the votes for ratification would not have been sensible.
But Mr Brown refuses to acknowledge what almost everyone with any knowledge of the subject can see: what might have been sensible politics a few years ago is not necessarily the basis for a long-term approach to pensions provision.
Mr Goetz said the quarantine would have been a sensible measure given how many places musicians visit.
If they wanted Mason out, 6 months ago (or perhaps more) seems to have been a sensible time to do it.
"I think Brian and the coaches have been quite sensible, " insisted Vickery.
And so he decided not to put NOAA in what would have been a more sensible place.
Ten months earlier the company failed to consummate what would have been a perfectly sensible merger with Norway's Telenor, also state-controlled (80%).
But generally the Germans have been diplomatic, sensible even.
On this occasion I am pleased that we have been able to reach a sensible understanding.
Ministers have been able to present a sensible pensions plan this week because they opened up policy-making to independent scrutiny and advice.
Such eminently sensible requirements have been endorsed by both the outgoing and incoming Secretaries of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, respectively.
Its outlines are well known and have been more or less agreed by sensible Palestinians and Israelis, including those in power, for the past decade.
"David Bell is saying what sensible people in education have been saying for years, " said Marilyn Mason of the British Humanist Association.
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This year's series of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been broadly welcomed for a sober and sensible tone, which, while acknowledging the dangers of global warming, also suggested that our destiny was still in our own hands.
And we over the course of the last year have been in constant conversations with them about setting up a sensible system in which we are prosecuting where appropriate those in Article III courts.
No-one sensible is now predicting the continuation of the exponential price increases that have been seen in Dubai since it opened its property market to foreigners and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest a real estate is simply not moving.
Yet he has managed to cobble together a string of sensible and useful policies that have guided the country away from what would surely have been a depression.
Only with the election of Jacob Zuma , who has himself been publicly tested for HIV (he did not have it), did South Africa return to sensible anti-AIDS policies.
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