And the perfectly sensible reason why it didn't, he added, was the old Maxim-gun jingle: the Russians have got the hydrogen bomb and the Serbs have not.

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Virginia, which threw out a Virginia ban on interracial marriage for the sensible reason that it was a violation of the constitutional right to due process for the state to prevent a black woman from marrying a white man while letting everybody else decide who they should marry on their own.

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And you could become caught in a liquidity trap where people have to sell good assets even though there's no sensible economic reason to do so.

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Think of the Bluetooth headset: it's a really sensible way to use your phone without having to take it out of your pocket so sensible that there's really no reason not to keep that headset in your ear most of the time.

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For three years in law school, I was taught that Reason and Logic reign supreme that deductive thinking dictates sensible action.

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The second reason why significant oil consumption will continue long-term is that viable and economically-sensible alternatives have yet to emerge.

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One reason why many observers are so pessimistic is that the coalition has shown little ability to strike sensible compromises.

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