sensible decision

collocation in English

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sensible
adjective
uk
/ˈsen.sə.bəl/us
/ˈsen.sə.bəl/
based on or acting on good judgment and practical ideas ...
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decision
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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(Definition ofsensibleanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This, and other discussions about furniture and luminaires led to thesensibledecisionto build a mock-up of a typical office, which is currently under way.
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Apart from anything else, that was asensibledecision, because another wild and uninhibited discussion there in present conditions would get nobody anywhere.
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It is difficult wholly to allay those anxieties when one has to make proper preparations for asensibledecision.
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Will he reflect on the fact that more than one airline has had reason to rue such an apparentlysensibledecision.
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It was a verysensibledecision, the sense of which has been confirmed over the past year.
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I am sure he will agree that our decision is the onlysensibledecisionwe could make at the present time.
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From his own point of view this was asensibledecision.
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Tentative proposals from local authorities have required considerable development before asensibledecisioncould be made on which to adopt.
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We equally well know—and recent experience confirms it—that it is often difficult to reach asensibledecisionon the findings of the commission.
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That seems asensibledecisionwith which no one can quarrel.
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We have to try to reach asensibledecision.
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I am sure that the usual channels will reach asensibledecisionin that regard.
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That is something that a judge can get hold of and make asensibledecisionabout.
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We want them to take a rational andsensibledecisionon the offer on the table.
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On this argument, a person carrying on a computer bureau cannot be trusted to make asensibledecisionon whether data should be disclosed.
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It seems to me to be asensibledecisionnot to have started down this particular road.
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That is why it is not asensibledecision.
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That case would also go to the commission and, we hope, asensibledecisionwould be reached.
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I think it was a verysensibledecision.
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It may be a verysensibledecisionto have taken.
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