Sentence examples for a defensible condition from inspiring English sources

Arriving at the fort in the summer of 1776, Colonel Goreham and a garrison of 200 Loyalist troops of the RFA did what they could to restore the premises to a defensible condition.

From Europa Point, which pushes into the sea on the south side, to the highest point of the Rock, there is not a single point that has not been put into a defensible condition... Proceeding towards Europa Point, at the entrance of the town, fortifications, magazines, barracks, and batteries are placed wherever the nature of the surface would permit".

Besides the close connection with empirical adequacy (see Sect. 3), Sober (1988) has shown that parsimony is only a defensible inference condition when it captures salient aspects of the phenomena being inferred about, which is in turn only evaluable if the relevant well-confirmed generalizations describing them are available.

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

If evolution rates could be estimated in a defensible and consistent manner, the implication of the neutral theory might be tested by comparing estimates conditioned on essentiality.

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.

It was a defensible gamble, money-wise.