Sentence examples for a defensible policy from inspiring English sources

This is a defensible policy argument, and one that many environmentalists would support.

Cable believes the coalition, after some false starts, has landed on a defensible policy that amounts to a graduate contribution based on the ability to pay.

Again, it might be a defensible policy, assuming it were technically feasible, to strengthen the powers of Ofcom to censor foreign channels that "broadcast hate preachers and extremist content", but it can't be sold as a defence of free speech.

The study questions the extent to which a defensible policy evidence base can be developed in the absence of primary valuation data and where benefit estimates are reported in aggregate terms.

But I don 't think that it's necessarily hypocritical to profit from a legitimate public policy, a morally defensible policy, even if one opposed it".

Those who insist that the immolation of Iraq was the consequence of errors in the execution of an otherwise defensible policy are simply evading their own responsibility and culpability.

Had disagreements about the seriousness of the recession, or about the balance between tax rises and spending cuts, been aired through proper cabinet committee (and full cabinet) debates, there would have been leaks, no doubt; but there would have been a more coherent, defensible policy at the end of it.

And, as we shall see below (see section 3.2), some philosophers argue that the ethically most defensible policy is to give everybody a social minimum, rather than conditioning the social minimum on work or some other kind of behavior.

Unifying efforts to build a body of evidence empirically demonstrating the contribution of trade and investment policies to changing food environments and patterns of health outcomes is a first step in being able to make defensible policy decisions to mitigate these impacts.

Dr. Alta Charo, an ethicist at the University of Wisconsin, said that much of the Bush council's work "seemed more like a public debating society" and that a new commission should focus on helping the government form ethically defensible policy.

After all, they are paid by the taxpayers to take advantage of the vast resources and information available to them and their staff in order to reach semi-literate and defensible policy position.