Good business, sensible strategy, big growth plans - but unable to achieve any of its aims while constrained by excessive debt.

This has been a 'perfectly sensible strategy' in an environment where cheap money has floated all boats.

From the teaching profession's point of view this would unquestionably be a sensible strategy.

And that a sensible strategy would be to remove the bowl making it harder to spoil one's appetite.

With no prospect even of a room of one's own, let alone an income, career or home, it was a sensible strategy.