Ministers had hoped to smooth over dissent by introducing the cards gradually, beginning with students, foreigners, airport workers and other soft or sensible targets.
Crafty, or sensible, we can say for sure that the change in policy represents a small easing in monetary policy, which will act much like another dose of quantitative easing over the coming months.
Now I would argue that global free trade is the only logical or sensible thing to be doing: but leave that aside for a moment, what possible arguments are there against free trade within Africa?
Their concern is that - whether justified or not, whether sensible or not - the SNP are offering precise, measurable benefits while Labour's offer is still somewhat nebulous.
Whether you want to call this cute or just sensible planning is up to you of course.
So don't expect any searing and transparent post-mortem of the team's performance, or a sensible plan for the future.
"Turning your back on a damaged relationship may be the simplest or most sensible solution, one that frees you from the tyranny of hope, " Spring writes.
Have you ever wondered why perfectly sensible, rational, and intelligent colleagues resist or reject perfectly sensible, rational, and intelligent ideas?
Does that mean that shifting responsibility to our patients in frustration, or refusing to continue our commitment to learn more about how we can help our patients, is actually a sensible or useful choice?
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There were a host of other explanations, sensible or wild, including his romance with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
It will not be sensible or prudent at that stage to rely on a pre-referendum state of affairs which presupposes the supremacy of Westminster.
The monies spent by the government on anything (whether sensible or not), or by citizens and companies to conform to government regulations and policies, exert an income effect that reflects the direct correlation between wealth and health.
"You would have to know the internals of what they have before you can assess whether there is a sensible invocation or not, " Giuliani said.
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.
Importing a Palin or two might be sensible.
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Whether the seam-friendly surfaces this year are a coincidence or the result of a sensible decision by the league, they've made it a far more engaging competition.
"Many parents mistakenly believe they are introducing their children to sensible drinking, or preventing them from drinking outside the house by giving them alcohol at home, " he said.
"The argument really is around the safety of prisoners within the prison and whether or not it's sensible to integrate prisoners who are politically and diametrically opposed to one another, " he said.
Past government campaigns in Scotland have targeted both genders, but research shows that women in particular "are often unaware or slightly confused about what sensible drinking guidelines are, " she said.
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When the researchers controlled for connections between socio-economic status and beverage preference, they found that wine-drinkers with the same financial resources and social standing as beer-drinkers or teetotallers simply lead more sensible and healthier lives.
Now, as its implementation begins, those critics have the choice of working with regulators to make the system safer, or simply to roll back sensible reforms, such as the creation of an agency to protect consumers from the kind of abusive practices that spawned this crisis in the first place.
Much of what seems sensible, plausible, or certain turns out to be flat out wrong.
Yet almost nobody, myself included, knows what a Higgs boson is, or at least can give a sensible description of it.
For that and other reasons, Amtrak as an entity should probably be reorganized or disbanded, with the few sensible routes operated by a subsidized private sector carrier.
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.
These are not questions that economists or anyone else can give a sensible answer to - not least, because no-one can say with any confidence what the terms of Britain's NON-membership of the EU would be.
His only sensible options are joint ventures or selling off the mines.
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