But most merger waves begin in this sensible way before spiralling out of control.
So my measure is going to be are we doing things in a sensible way, meeting core functions, not endangering our recovery.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget
"There is no cap and no limit on it but we want to pursue onshore wind in a sensible way, " he said.
And we are beginning, as planned, as promised, the drawdown of U.S. forces next month, in a sensible way, working with our military commanders.
Five trillion dollars were added to our debt with little prospect that borrowing will abate, all the while nothing was done to assure lenders that these policies would end in a sensible way.
FORBES: What Entrepreneurs Can Teach World Leaders About Debt
And by closing some additional loopholes through tax reform -- which Speaker Boehner has acknowledged can raise money in a sensible way -- and by doing some additional cuts, including making sure that we are reducing our health care spending, which is the main driver of our deficits, we can arrive at a package that gets this thing done.
And that's why the plan that I've put forward for manufacturing, and education, and reducing our deficit in a sensible way, using the savings from ending wars to rebuild America and putting people back to work, making sure that we are controlling our own energy, but not just the energy of today, but also the energy of the future -- all those things will make a difference.
You'll have glanceable access to operating hours, surrounding traffic and recommended places -- that's not new, it's just surfaced in a more sensible way now.
But what they cannot say is whether this will happen in a sensible orderly way, or whether it will only happen five seconds before midnight, when markets are melting down.
We are going to allow borrowing to go up to cover those costs in a sensible and pragmatic way.
"These celebrations or commemorations can have the capacity, if not managed in a sensible and responsible way, to arouse passions, to cause anger, to provoke tension and indeed exacerbate community division, " she said.
We do things in a sensible, responsible way.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s News Conference on Deficit Reduction
"We will go through our federal budget - page by page, line by line - eliminating those programmes we don't need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way, " he said.
In places like Canada, where the need to hire and deploy government personnel in a more rational way is recognised in principle, at least, sensible changes have had unexpected results.
He said the pull-out would be carried out "in a sensible, ordered and practical way".
Magistrate Roger Davies, sentencing him, described the defendant as an intelligent man who should have acted in a "more sober and sensible way".
Blair said he believed that the Bush administration was "sensitive" to foreign worries about the proposals and would discuss the issue with other states in a "serious and sensible" way.
There has been much talk during the past 24 hours of UN resolutions, "coercive" weapons inspections and proceeding in a "sensible and measured" way against Saddam, as had been done over Iraq and even Kosovo before that.
Although at first hearing it sounds ludicrous, the Alliance argues that it is an eminently sensible way for representatives to stay in close contact with constituents living far from Edinburgh.
Mr Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had recently proposed slapping another two yen tax on cigarettes and selling down the government's stake in Japan Tobacco, which many people saw as a sensible way for a debt-strapped government to help pay the huge costs of post-tsunami reconstruction.
ECONOMIST: The new prime minister takes a leaf out of the LDP��s book
Yet what could be a sensible way of financing local development got out of hand in Marbella.
In granting the binding order, Judge Burgess said it was a "sensible way forward" as having read the papers it was clear to him that David Ferris "instigated everything that happened".
Not only do these additions bolster the look and feel of the UI, but they're actually sensible and helpful solutions to problems which Google had heretofore approached in an obtuse way.
But after an initial reading he said it seemed to have struck a "sensible balance in safeguarding the very important role of academic publishers while finding a way to manage the change to an environment that is more dominated by open access".
Judicial restraint is a pet cause of conservatives, along with the sensible idea that legislators should be free to legislate, since if they do so in a stupid way the voters will respond by chucking them out of office.
FORBES: Florida Judge's ObamaCare Ruling Passionate, If Futile
There was a more sensible way to do it, with a more up to date strategic outlook that I wrote about in The Elastic Enterprise.
FORBES: How HP Could Have Saved Itself $10 Billion (And Its Share Price From Falling)
应用推荐