Sentence examples for a more defensible from inspiring English sources

"They have a more defensible position and more sympathetic position" than Napster, he said.

Or perhaps it was a more defensible reluctance to reassure a patient falsely when I didn't know what she had, a decision I might later come to regret.

If Mr. Smith had been serious, not cynical, about an immigration measure, he could have negotiated with Democrats, come up with something better on family reunification and drafted a more defensible bill.

Convinced the Union was preparing to advance down the Mississippi River in September 1861, Polk decided Columbus, Ky., was a more defensible position than the one he occupied in Tennessee.

But while this is certainly a more defensible position than breathless technophilia, or the blithe stories of triumphally self-regulating urban ecosystems the vendors themselves peddle, I happen to believe this is not the case.

If Mr. Romney's points were to be reformulated in a more defensible direction, the outline might look something like this: OF MAKING AND TAKING The correct distinction is not "makers versus takers".

Is pet insurance any more defensible as a money saver?

"Gay activists should instead put their energies into environmental issues like climate change, because there's a chance to make a morally more defensible and more urgent difference".

Officials and policy analysts have speculated that the proposal is a bargaining ploy, designed to get state officials to approve a smaller, more defensible, commuter tax.

But officials and policy analysts have speculated that the Bloomberg proposal is a bargaining ploy intended to get state officials to approve a smaller, more defensible, commuter tax.

Australia reached 141, a much more defensible total than had seemed likely only half an hour earlier.