Sentence examples for To be defensible from inspiring English sources

Is football just too dangerous to be defensible as mass entertainment?

Until now, the role of the credit ratings agencies in the financial crisis had seemed — to me, at least — to be defensible.

Speaking at AIPAC before Obama, a Democratic congressman, Steny Hoyer, did his president few favours by playing to the audience and distancing himself from Obama by saying that Israel's borders had to be defensible.

If investors are to be willing to trust the professional judgment of auditors in applying principles -- and if the S.E.C. is to be willing to refrain from bringing cases where the judgment appears to be defensible, even though the S.E.C. disagrees with it -- then it becomes more vital than ever to assure that auditors are both independent of their clients and competent to make those decisions.

A solid patent has to be defensible.

If Schmitt's conception of sovereignty is to be defensible, it must therefore be given a democratic interpretation.

"It's not even close to what would be defensible to the outside investors".

Contractualists claim that the rules of morality are those that would or could be defensible to all others in the bargaining arrangement.

Some references to God may indeed be defensible in this way: the use of "In God We Trust" on our currency, the "God Save this Honorable Court" that opens the sessions of the Supreme Court.

We have lost our belief that complex policy problems call for critical examination from multiple perspectives and their solutions must be defensible to the wider public, not just friendly constituencies.

In contrast to the above scenario wherein a medical student may take the drug explicitly for personal academic success, it may be defensible to have our top medical researchers on cognitive enhancement drugs [ 24].