Sentence examples for Defensible reason from inspiring English sources

A partner's affair could no longer be treated by courts as a defensible reason to lose control and kill.

The Coalition have wound back Labor's changes and have provided not one defensible reason for doing so.

Maybe that would have been a defensible reason back in 1942 not to choose him to lead the Los Alamos project, though it would have been a mistake.

There's no morally defensible reason why anybody should be slinking around it after dark, particularly following several glugs of bottom-shelf akvavit.

There is simply no defensible reason for the administration to object to independent, retrospective scrutiny to make sure that it is playing by its own rules.

There is no intellectually defensible reason for stopping flowing traffic with what amounts to arbitrary roadblocks scattered all over the state's otherwise functional highways.

Sure, Mr Bush made mistakes, but they seem to have been honest ones made for defensible reasons.

These are among the more defensible reasons Blunt joined those who decided to work for the Soviets.

What if they espoused middle-class tastes or evangelical religion or (even) Whig politics for rational and defensible reasons?

Society is not any greedier than it used to be, said Mr. Gray, a former lawyer, and sellers may have perfectly defensible reasons for doing what they're doing.

First, I'll argue that there are quite defensible reasons for a reluctance to abandon theories of rationality in favor of psychological theories.