Let's not compromise that history in an effort to support free-market ideology over common sense.

Many will succeed, in a small triumph of folklore over common sense, if not science.

In a mistaken victory of vanity over common sense, I nonetheless selected them.

It is a betrayal - a victory for prejudice over common sense.

It sounds like a triumph of lust over common sense.

Often, however, it is a case of the beaten tourist track prevailing over good sense.

In the Lewinsky investigation, legal definitions sometimes seemed to prevail over common sense.

"Once again parochial interests have won out over common sense."

The Commission too has given economic interests and political considerations priority over common sense.

However, I pondered long over the meaning and sense of our undertaking.