Translation of "Sinn machten" in English

Remember, I did things before, they didn't make no sense?

From that time on, I wanted stories that made sense.

I was given mathematical equations that made complete sense to me.

The soldiers were the ones who decided not to follow orders that didn't make any sense anymore.

He wrote floods and floods and floods of words that made no sense.

He quoted scriptures I had never heard before and they seemed to make a lot of sense.

We refused to comply with their demands as it was nonsense.

In truth, the intention is to rectify certain deficiencies in the framework regulation which the Member States indicated in 2003 on trying to apply the European Union rules in the field of aviation security to smaller airports, in which, due to their size and activities, there were aspects which did not make much sense.

He reiterated the statement made in point 1.3 of the opinion, according to which bilateral approaches are only good as a complement to a multilateral one.

Just to remember how it was like when things made sense?

His culture of touch, and the sense for formation made his contribution to be the third high point of the evening.

Scenarios were unfolding which did not make much sense, confusion and mis-communication abounded, and chaos was ever present.

Like many of you, I began this work full of frustration with teachings that don't work or don't make sense when compared with honest observation of reality and experience.

For me, it was an eye opener. From that time on, I wanted stories that made sense.

I remember him as a social and open minded person with the ability to make commitments when they made sense to him.

A lot of the current understanding of Baroque counterpoint is based on retroactively making up rules about things that the composers of the time intuitively found beautiful, very often out of simple aesthetic considerations that only made sense in a certain period of time, not later, not earlier.

Aside from Arnold Zweig and Walter Hasenclever one could also mention f.ex. Ferdinand Bruckner, whose dramas were great events for a depraved flock of lustfull sensation-mongers, because they made criminal and sexual aberrations the only meaning of life (f.ex. “Verbrecher” (Criminal) or “Krankheit der Jugend”(Illness of the Youth)) But let enough be said, let it be enough to ask the question again: In what country, which holds on to its national honour, the sacredness of the religious feelings, morals, law and order would such a trend-setting clique of beasts not have been chased to hell at once?

It serves to construct "a past in which people in Africa have to be situated in order that scientific schemata and imperialism continue to make sense".

The cigarette holders people used in the past made sense - they cool down the smoke and absorb a certain amount of the tar and other harmful substances - and the Spliff Stik is the modern equivalent for blunts.

Everyone there thought that what she said made sense and decided to let her go.

In order to ensure the creation of the best product, Sonos’s industrial designers had to translate what their audio team needed in a way that made sense to their counterparts at IKEA.

In a certain sense, we gave voice to everyone's prayer, and God heard his children's supplication.

Such people, good at making money but heedless of any ultimate end or purpose, made an impression on me, and I increasingly began to wonder if men didn’t need principles to guide them and tell them why they were there.

Little ditties that would make sense like proverbs and they used to say that when an individual child is born your nature was your song and so you'd have songs for so-and-so and you had the Song of Solomon, even though that's esoteric and doesn't mean what you think it does, but you sang your song.

It can therefore be disputed whether it makes sense.

Fourthly, it makes sense to work more closely with the NGOs.

Fifthly, it makes sense also to deal with controversial matters.

Otherwise, there is no point at all in our debating it and making fools of ourselves.

But even so I wonder what the point of the report is.

This makes sense, as cattle sales have been stopped.

Does our purpose matter in the end, if the deed is the same?

And why this whole thing makes sense.

Is that something that makes sense?

Don't you think that it makes sense?

I think it makes sense.

So that made sense, that was a match.

But even the small meaning made a difference.

He makes pretty good sense.

I understand. It makes sense.

What sense could there possibly be in my killing Father?

That's about the only thing makes sense so far.

He was therefore convinced that these proposals made sense.

You're obviously displaying symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, which absolutely makes sense.

Actually, that makes sense.

I only ran because I know it makes no sense.