But isn't moving to the centre just sensible politics as the primary turns into a general election?
Whether you want to call this cute or just sensible planning is up to you of course.
Both of these would-be presidents and leaders of their respective parties understand a central reality: It is not just a sensible policy approach to begin making our automotive fleet independent from gasoline.
And not just a sensible one either.
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"The fact is, in a world that is ever more interconnected, to disconnect yourself, either Scotland from the UK or Britain from Europe, is just not sensible because many of the challenges we face are the challenges you are going to have to face together, you are going to have to get solutions together, " he said.
All ex-prisoners find that - I did, Jeffrey will too - and it's quite a tough call getting back into the world of freedom and remaining balanced and sensible and just coping with a new life and a new world.
All this means that the government's wish to be a new-economy exemplar is entirely sensible and not just a bit of New Labour fluff.
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.
It also makes it hard to draw up sensible policies: just think of the endless debate about whether recycling is the only way to save the planet or an expensive waste of time.
My sensible plan rebounded just fine.
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Now, I've been confident from the start that we could work out a sensible approach here, just as I promised.
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Which means that if Sharp really are bust, or close to it, then one possibly sensible thing to do is just sweat that production line of all the cash flow that can be got from it.
That dynamic can get otherwise sensible people to unite around a disturbing cause, just because they feel under attack.
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It is not sensible for Belfast to have two airports that are just 14 miles apart, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has been told.
And I also want to take a minute before I begin to thank the Senators who, just a few hours ago, took another big step towards sensible gun safety reforms by advancing a federal gun trafficking bill.
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If, on the other hand, this is the government's money and they're just a pass-through, it doesn't seem very sensible that banks should be making money that way.
Unfortunately, the city council has appointed a rival commission to deal with the same issue, just in case the mayor's commission should come up with something sensible.
Ok, all the talk about decisive action v sensible action, conjecture v proven facts lets me mention both - just about.
Still others may just be less willing to take risks after suffering a huge loss, a sensible "once burned, twice shy" mentality.
So, while most economics is just organised common sense the difficult part of economics is the working out of how common, how sensible and how important those common sense insights are.
The ever-sensible Swedes may smooth off some of the directive's rougher edges, but it is just luck that they are in charge of the EU at the moment.
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And, just to show how quite insane the original plan was, all countries starting with the letter M would be more sensible than what the politicians of Brussels cobbled together.
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