Sentence examples for a defensible action from inspiring English sources

A measure of Kurdish reluctance in northern Iraq to judge fellow Kurds is that several Kurds explained in interviews that killing Turkish soldiers was a defensible action.

If we hide or dilute the moral issues, then this important truth is lost, and the prospects for ethically defensible action diminish.

Excluding immigrants who have been convicted or serious property or violent crimes, are suspected terrorists (.1percentt of those in IAFIS), and could carry deadly communicable diseases into the U.S. are defensible actions that the government should undertake.

A potentially more legally-defensible action would be to allow the oyster farm to continue operations temporarily in the potential wilderness area of PRNS – extending the lease according to the terms of the Senator Feinstein rider.

But he has allowed the Republicans to turn a very defensible military action — arguably, our only current military engagement that seems to make any sense — into an attack on the Obama administration for abuse of executive power.

The fort is designed as a defensible battery, rather than a defensive strongpoint.

It is a defensible posture.

It was a defensible decision.

Is this a defensible verdict?

Well, because Pistorius has a defensible case.

While controversial, this is a defensible position.