The only acceptable guarantee of the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear programme would be the permanent cessation of its activities with respect to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

How Much Transparency is Too Much?

The pendulum has swung too far.

Sense and Nonsense about Disproportionate Force

But there is nothing irrational in deciding otherwise.

Article 5, paragraph 2 Reasonable utilization

(b) Leads to a result which is manifestly absurd or unreasonable.

(b) Leads to a result which is manifestly absurd or unreasonable.

Their aim is to discourage trading that pushes prices further away from the range and to encourage trading that helps to bring them back.

It is entirely plausible that Thaksin did help finance the protest.

This long existing and accepted norm has certainly not meant that torture has been overcome. Instances of torture have always occurred despite efforts to eliminate them.

At every level, there is a consciousness of environmental limits and the realization that the resource intensive consumption patterns now accepted in the United States would be a disaster for China and for the world.

Like I say, oh, you know, would you serve a rotten chicken?

Poor children do not have reasonable access to health care.

The sensible guess is that these two factors cancel each other out. Thus, the expected fundamental real return on diversified US stock portfolios right now is in the range of 6 to 7 .

The huge design challenge is to find the right level of mandatory policy convergence one that works economically and is acceptable politically.

Then how could you serve, you know, a beat up old dress or something.

It does not seem correct or reasonable to try to cure an illness by adding to what caused it.

The war on terrorism cannot be fought in Afghan villages.

On the contrary, it is often presented as a bridge too far.

Thus, it is absurd to speak of the Cuban nation merely from a Eurocentric perspective.

It was noted that a clear, universally accepted definition of terrorism would be useful in efforts to combat terrorism, as would international agreement on the draft comprehensive convention against terrorism that was currently under consideration.

The focus has been on buying time, rather than on implementing a sensible transition to a sustainable policy stance.

Incidentally, it is plausible that the cyclical behavior of the SWFs is responsible for the underperformance of their holdings.

His guilt cannot be presumed until the charge has been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

Growing asymmetries can thus undermine the minimum credible deterrence that we have put in place.

It will no longer do merely to warn against racism, or promote multiculturalism.

In that sense, it is reasonable to say that the worst of the downturn is now probably behind us.

Ordinarily, partisan political gridlock in Washington would prevent any such sensible change.

But it is not reasonable to do so by proposing a cure that is worse than the disease.

It makes little sense to include Russia, a former superpower, with three developing economies.

She maintains that these criminal procedures can hardly be considered effective and or immediate protection.

The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic clearly exerted influence that went beyond the reasonable exercise of cooperative or neighbourly relations.

It is unconscionable that further suffering is inflicted on women and girls who have endured such heinous crimes it is all the more unconscionable when this suffering is inflicted by the very authorities who are responsible for their protection.

Its compelling logic is precisely why there is little chance that such a reasonable proposal would ever be adopted.

The conventional view is that a reasonable, balanced approach entails some of each.

But it is neither useful nor very plausible to assume that Kim Jong un and his military advisers are mad.

(iv) enhance the access of developing countries to affordable credit and allocate funds for improving legal and regulatory conditions

It seems very far fetched to tell them that to exercise that most basic right would be divisive.

But in the light of the progress, the assessment of the Danish Government is that it is now possible and recommendable to move on to the next phase, to a comprehensive review this summer, in accordance with resolution 1244 (1999) and relevant presidential statements of the Security Council.

However, is it reasonable to leave the risk of defending official acts on individuals who were carrying out an international mandate? Is it reasonable to deliberately leave adjudication of such claims to the vagaries of a variety of national laws rather than to a mechanism adopted by the COP MOP?

Paris It is reasonable to believe in miracles, David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, once said.

It would be absurd to set US President Barack Obama and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso against each other as equals.

So if the correlation makes sense given the fundamentals, it seems sensible to bet on its persistence.

It is plausible that the galaxies within our observable universe represent only a minuscule fraction of the galaxies in the Universe.