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"Sitting on a nest like that only made sense if it had feathers" to gently insulate its young, says Sues.

At least the old naming system was the same for each station, made sense and was easy to get used to.

I wrote out the advertisement on the back of an old envelope and read it aloud to see if it made sense.

It was harder than I thought it would be to explain my short life and why it made sense for them to send me to Oxford.

I thought what he said made sense and I got in touch with him.

Ministers knew it made sense to crack down on junk foods but did not have the political appetite to take on such a huge industry.

It might have made sense to complete this activity to provide general purpose support for the pattern within the architecture.

Laporte said she decided to sell the sketches "for my mission" and that it would not have made sense to leave the collection to relatives.

That made sense -- that suited both the content and device, and we're going to see more unique interfaces like this to come.

The real thing about Safire, though, was not whether his columns made sense or not. It was that the man could write.

It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world.

Such a speech made sense politically, too: it was shrewd to emphasise just how dreadful a mess he is inheriting from his predecessor.

At the time, it no longer made sense financially for her to work.

The attack speed penalty was a very old construct that made sense when white swings were such a huge chunk of paladin damage.

The cell phones made sense, even though we didn't use them much--at least we knew that if anything happened, we could contact one another.

This design was chosen because there was no obvious single call out; therefore, it made sense to combine the logic within one flow.

In that day and time, it made sense to see the goal of an economy as maximizing utility for the greatest number of people.

And suddenly the only solution that made sense for her. Escape.

David Oliver, visiting professor of medicine for older people at City University, London, said the findings "made sense" .

"And since Milgram's finding sort of made sense, nobody even bothered to redo the experiment, " Watts shrugs.

Sam's voice was the only one that made sense in the chaos, perhaps because my ear was against his chest.

Though unfamiliar at first, Mango's organizational system made sense after using it for a week.

I'm not too surprised that "you're garbage" made sense to her in that context, but not at all to her dinner party compatriots.

Hopefully, a little bit about technology, culture, So in fact let me give you his explanation to me as why this made sense.

"We were not looking to sell the company, " Ms Huffington says. "But when [AOL chief executive] Tim Armstrong came forward, it made sense. "

On their own, each of these moves may have made sense. But the zigzags left the markets discombobulated and uncertain.

But President Bush would routinely toss out this excuse and the national media would dutifully report it, as though it somehow made sense.

It made sense too that this change occurred as an adaptation for flight.

And it made sense because we looked at our lives, and the lives of a bunch of our friends, and it was like, 'We would all try this. '

That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.

That might have made sense a decade ago, but in today's era of PCs powered by dual- and quad-core CPUs, it doesn't.

It made sense to consolidate the way Web applications were implemented into a more complete framework.

Any of these would have made sense, but Wes said, "A calculator. "

It made sense when travelling to and from the state capital was hard and lawmakers had farms or other business to get back to.

It might have made sense to measure productivity by hours in the chair or at the assembly line at one point.

He carefully explained his position on each issue in a way that made sense to his listeners.

With addition of one extra dimension, string theory made sense again, but it has become a very different kind of theory.

And, since most stay at one of the handful of top central London hotels on visits to the UK, it made sense to find his own crash pad nearby.

Since most of the system utilities were therefore written in C, it simply made sense to also write new utilities in that language.

With its multiplicity of spines and tentacles, little about Hallucigenia made sense.

He figured it made sense considering that his significant other would like to watch most of his games at Toyota Center.

Thinking with my thumbs made sense in a way that thinking with nails and feebler fingers never would or did.

Such involvement made sense in a country rising from nothing with limited capital and a low level of education.

I waited for him to say something that made sense.

It made sense to be cagey, even though crawling while carrying tools and explosives was awkward and uncomfortable.

Most Fed officials agreed that the outlook is weaker, so it no longer made sense to tighten policy by shrinking the Fed's balance sheet.

I wanted to see if the whole idea of a bank for kids made sense; I didn't want to build the thing.

Some scientists think that when food was more scarce it made sense to be attracted to fatty foods, so as to store fat reserves.

Big moves, but they all made sense, especially as the European Central Bank is preparing to wind down its emergency liquidity operations.

Expressing his thoughts in colour and line was how Modigliani made sense of the world.

Initially, companies often outsourced projects tactically, selecting whatever vendor made sense at the time.

Java was originally designed to be embedded in TV set-top boxes, so this low-level orientation still made sense.

If bank managers couldn't write a will that made sense, they would have to simplify their operations, and possibly sell some of them off.

He wondered if it still made sense for foreign multinationals to form venture in Mexico.

Therefore it made sense to have adverts within the applications.

What he said made sense.

It also made sense that I should simulate running workouts that started at a modest pace, and then got faster and faster.

But the argument was made to us that Fred and George dressed the same to trick people, so it made sense.

It made sense to move their deposits to a bank where the banks and the gold link were more secure.

Given the overcapacity in European carmaking, an orderly insolvency of Opel would have made sense.

Suddenly his actions over the last several weeks made sense.

Once upon a time, marriage made sense.

'Online shopping is a given and everyone is extremely busy, working very long hours. So this concept absolutely made sense. '

But U. K. -based entertainment lawyer Ambi Sitham said it made sense for Madonna to divest herself of her British property.

It made sense. But then, like many sensible ideas, it got so stretched by interest groups that it became something else.

Opposing the use of condoms in Africa may have made sense in theological terms (though even believers often found the stance baffling).

If those analogies made sense to you, it's because reading has transformed even further in the electronic age .

when I could do what I wanted, when I wanted to do it! Back when the world made sense!

I asked one of my best NBA informants if the trade made sense, on any level, for the Grizzlies.

I must follow the rules that made sense as a child, but now seem crimping as an adult.

The central planning that made sense when it was fighting for survival in the second world war was giddily retained in peacetime.

Viacom didn't think these investments made sense for its own strategy, so it sold its stake in Blockbuster, which became publicly held.

At the time, all this made sense.

The idea made sense: have each side do something tangible to prove it was serious about peace and then start negotiations.

Since China was easily the largest, it made sense to put its name first.

When one weighs the elements of the financial crisis, one sees that China's Promise to keep RMB currency steady made sense.

Moving the car to the more upscale Buick brand could have made sense even with Saturn still in operation.

'It made sense for both sides, nobody put a gun to anybody's head, ' says BRS Chief Executive Tim Jones.

That may have made sense to teachers and administrators, but not to ambitious parents.

Most people live with a just-in-case mind-set because for most of human history, it made sense.

and that made all kinds of manoeuvrings in the credit market possible that would not have made sense had base rates been higher.

What made sense to a relatively homogeneous gaggle of several dozen nomads needn't hold for millions of strangers.

It made sense to me and given my engineering background, I found the math around these theories fascinating.

We could see that it made sense for us to offer packaging for Jobe 's that could be sold both indoors and outdoors.

Maybe that made sense in the early 1960s, when computer infrastructure was expensive and proprietary.

With all of this traveling, it made sense to move closer to the airport.

It made sense that he would somehow find a way to attack a ship that he already knew had a flawed security system.

From this perspective, it certainly made sense for central banks to stop that run by supplying short-term money.

Everything made sense, except at the axis there was missing heat.

Now I had to decide which of these made sense to include in my design.

Since Stefano already had a good relationship with JJ and knowledge of the actual work, it made sense to bring us in on the project.

"Suddenly it all made sense, " says astronomer and co-author Priyamvada Natarajan of Yale University.

As aresult, graphic designers went wild: anything they could draw could bea UI, whether it made sense or not.

Recapitalising banks made sense during the banking crisis of 2008 when governments had debt burdens significantly lower than they are today.

A bright light dawned over the situation. Everything instantly made sense.

Nothing' made sense till the time I saw your face.

If the payback was good, and operating costs made sense in the building and the leasehold of 20 years, we moved forward.

This approach made sense for locking down services and directories after Exchange Setup ran.

Subsidised religion has seldom made sense for either state or church: witness Europe's empty news .

This made sense, since showing the methods (local and remote) from the interface's prespective tells what interface the method belongs to.

Despite continuing immigration, artisans were scarce, and it made sense for industry to develop mass production methods.

Throughout his life, Andrew Carnegie loved to read. So it made sense that he wanted to give money to support education and reading.

Concentrating on chocolate also made sense in psychological terms.

"With the standard ECU it really made sense to get rid of traction control, " said Michael.

Instead, they asked only whether asset prices made sense given other asset prices.

Q: And then you came back and you decided that going overseas for a living made sense?

Motor analysts said acquiring Volvo technology made sense for Geely.

The idea of a farm-side dinner made sense to him but not necessarily to others.

In other words, you used XML where it made sense, and avoided it when it didn't, like in sending requests to the server.

A few years ago, Cosco's decision to buy relief from the commodity boom's high shipping prices through long-term contracts made sense.

That made sense, since Verizon Wireless, with 94 million customers, represents the world largest market for CDMA mobile phones.

"It made sense for companies to go join together. "

This trust in God's Word caused Job to remain faithful even though nothing made sense.

It made sense for Sam to live near the college.

They were on such intimate terms with their own anatomy that Sherfey's description of the clitoris made sense.

I understood completely and felt what brothers said made sense.

Under these conditions it made sense to adopt labor-saving methods.

Economists say shipping products from other countries made sense when oil was $20 a barrel.

This made sense as long as the dollar's value was stable.

hand, having men's shirts button form the right made sense, too.

So to some brokers, it has made sense to more aggressively seek out Chinese buyers on their own turf.

Suddenly a lot of the bad decisions and impulsive behavior in my past made sense.

"I thought it made sense, " I say uneasily.

While some insurance has made sense, the current level of reserves cannot do so.

Then it suddenly made sense to me.

Of course, this made sense at the time.

REM is the more shallow form of sleep, during which wedream, so that made sense, Idzikowksi says.

This made sense, they reasoned, because it was easier to update information on the Web than to publish a new book.

That commitment made sense on paper six years ago, when the government forcibly consolidated a fragmented industry.

So that made sense, it was a match.

What they got in return were countless stories, few of which made sense.

"We made this decision a number of years ago that it made sense to play in this area of the market, " said Kevin Wale, head of GM in China.

When I used MA0W to trace the API calls, it all made sense.

Leung's reaction made sense.

In the past, the focus on falciparum made sense.

Has my speech made sense?

Perhaps back then it made sense for some investors, such as pension funds, to be obliged to buy top-rated bonds.

It just made sense. A month later, I'd lost 15 pounds.

Finally made sense why they pick you of all people to send here.

Under last year's law, large gifts before death sometimes made sense, depending on the state of residence.

It made sense. That was very scary.

And so it made sense to search for radio signals.

If the hostess said: "I like food. " The signal was chosen by her made sense of hunger.

The supposition made sense: Bats are nocturnal, many of them are avid nectarivores, and they can easily reach the highest blooms in a tree.

This is why it made sense last year to move some of the development tools from WebSphere into the Rational brand.

Nothing made sense until the time I saw your face

As a way to keep cash flowing to the wider economy and help banks rebuild their capital, this subsidy made sense;

i figured it made sense building me a fence

oh , me ? i ' m tired of wishing things made sense