What's the difference between reasonable and treasonable?
Reasonable
Definition:
(n.) Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
(n.) Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
(n.) Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
(adv.) Reasonably; tolerably.
Example Sentences:
(1) For this reason, these observations should not be disregarded.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(4) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(5) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(6) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
(7) Splenectomy had been performed for traumatic, hematologic or immunologic reasons.
(8) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(9) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(10) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(11) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
(12) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(13) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(14) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(15) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
(16) A series of 241 patients with subphrenic abscess was analysed to seek reasons for the continuing mortality.
(17) Still, cynics might say they can identify at least one reason it all might fail: namely form.
(18) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(19) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(20) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
Treasonable
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
(2) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
(3) Instead of dealing with a political problem, China has sought confrontation and control – threatening new national security laws that outlaw treason .
(4) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(5) December 5, 2013 10.21pm GMT Mandela was arrested in 1956 for "high treason" against the state, in a case that concluded without conviction.
(6) Arrested last year on suspicion of spying for arch-enemy Armenia, the couple also face treason charges in a separate case.
(7) But a Conservative MP who recently wrote to the Metropolitan police to call for a criminal investigation into the Guardian, accused the newspaper of potential treason.
(8) In addition to tax evasion and illegal business activities, she has also been charged with treason, for allegedly spying for Armenia.
(9) In a statement to a Senate judiciary committee he accused the British actor of coming “perilously near to treason” against the United States.
(10) On Monday the Sunni Ittehad Council, an umbrella group representing followers of the moderate Barelvi school of Islam , demanded Hassan be tried for treason.
(11) Pakistan's official commission investigating Bin Laden's presence in the country last year recommended that Afridi be tried for treason.
(12) Musharraf was dramatically diverted to a military hospital on 2 January after feeling a "heaviness" in his chest while he was driving to his treason trial.
(13) Everyone who happens to threaten or is perceived to be threatening his position is accused of committing a treasonous act, even if he doesn’t prove it.
(14) But pro-European presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, known as the "chocolate king," who currently leads in the polls, said on Thursday that any delay of the elections would be "treason" and would not happen no matter the circumstances.
(15) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
(16) Most were men and most had been convicted of murder, although Thomas and Albert also executed some prisoners who had been convicted of treason.
(17) But if that has turned not out to be true – if it is less and less accepted in rightward-drifting Israeli society that there can be such a thing as non-political information, and B’Tselem’s traditional activities are dismissed as treason – what point is there in trying any more?
(18) It is believed that Dokuchayev and Mikhailov face treason charges, which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
(19) Whenever we had a special campaign or an important political case - for example, the treason trial - we received financial assistance from sympathetic individuals and organisations in the western countries.
(20) "Generals like those in charge of Ilovaysk should be imprisoned for treason," said Skillt.