conscionable

There are far better, more conscionable uses for the resources."

Several days later, however, Invesco found it to be conscionable, after all.

But I couldn't do that in any conscionable manner."

A struggle must be moral, conscionable, and fair.

It's not conscionable anyway for those who live there - the women and children, elderly and men - anybody.

The only conscionable answer to all of that is a resounding, unequivocal vote of "no."

The case contended that the defendants violated conscionable standards regarding the treatment of the deceased.

He had no conscionable choice but to throw open the door to the girls' room, go in, and confirm whether The Other was there or not.

He is focused and conscionable.

The Conscionable Christian, three sermons preached before the judges of the circuit in 1620, London, 1623.

"This is the last chance they'll have, and I believe the candidates are going to take every swing that's responsible and conscionable but exposes their adversary."

But it can be argued that this co-production is one of the most artistically conscionable choices the George Street Playhouse could have made.

It is not an artistically conscionable choice for a theater that means to produce plays in keeping with its own standards, mission, identity and built-in subscription audience.

In the view of the majority of the House of Lords, presumed intention to reflect what is conscionable underlies all resulting and constructive trusts.

The EU must act together to demand conscionable treatment for all detainees in Camp Delta, including the Europeans who have now been held for two years without charge.

"The plan has been written to mitigate hardship, but it's not conscionable to have one storefront rented at low-low rents and another next to it at 10 times the rent."

A knave very voluble; no further conscionable than in putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming, for the better compass of his salt and most hidden loose affection?

She was too occupied with hiding under it to read it (even if she could read), just as none but the most conscionable human beings ever question the true nature of the institutions that are theoretically protecting them.

Never was there the hint of a conscionable alternative to what we were hearing: a voice utterly fresh, a tone green and pliable as a young twig, a comportment utterly sure, almost devoid of vibrato and yet also raw, exposed.

The lesson the Senator gleaned from Vietnam was not that the United States should not have been there, he said, but that a gradual buildup can be the least conscionable strategy, keeping American forces in harm's way for too long.

And there are practical advantages to the idea: it attracts curious spectators and newspaper reporters, and, when compared with the cost of renting even an Off Off Broadway theater for a few weeks, New York residential rent actually seems conscionable.

The Black Lion, who, like old John, had been waiting supper past all reasonable and conscionable hours, hailed this as a philosophical discovery of the profoundest and most penetrating kind; and the table being already spread, they sat down to supper straightway.

More than might seem conscionable, perhaps, if only to make us accomplices in the book's central quest: to discover how the Karnaus of the world, given what they could be persuaded to do (and induced to ignore) under the auspices of the Third Reich, explained themselves to themselves.

As he observed in The Epistle Dedicatory, [ 2] Oh if the head and several members of a family would be persuaded every one of them to be conscionable in performing their own particular duties, what a sweet society and happy harmony would there be in houses?