6 sentences with “reasonable”

The court calculated that the Russians had made reasonable payments to him, totaling $140,000 net, for his espionage.

Descartes personally embraced the view that God was a benevolent and reasonable power of creation, but that he did not stoop to meddling in the universe.

While Hannibal was busy ravaging Italy, the Macedonian king Philip V allied with Carthage against Rome, a reasonable decision at the time because it seemed likely that Rome would lose the war.

The Goths had won the support of most Italians through fair government and reasonable levels of taxation, and most Italians thus fought against the Byzantines, even though the Byzantines represented the legitimate Roman government.

The Bank of England issued bonds that paid a reasonable amount of interest, and the British government backed these bonds. Thus, individual investors were guaranteed to make money and the state could finance its wars through carefully regulated bond sales.

Historians do not know why he attempted this religious revolution, but one reasonable theory is that he was trying to reduce the power of the priests, who had become increasingly rich and powerful over the centuries at the expense of the pharaohs themselves.