Sentence examples for a number of tenable from inspiring English sources

The former hold that only individual agents or natural persons can be properly held responsible, while the latter hold that some collectives do count as subjects of responsibility (cf. Mathiesen 2006; Pettit 2007b; Hindriks 2009); depending on context and group size, there may be a number of tenable intermediate positions on this spectrum.

For 50 years, the primary structures of lignins have been thought to be random, but for a number of reasons such an assumption is not tenable.

It is the model thought to be favoured by the Treasury, which is concerned about the economic impact of leaving the single market, but not contemplated by a number of other ministers who believe it is not tenable to maintain current border arrangements with the EU.

In this case, Accel partner Ping Li says he has been "stalking these guys, for lack of a better word," for several years, in part because Tenable products, especially Nessus, are being used by a number of Accel's portfolio companies.

AWS has signed up a number of its partners for the initial roll out, including CrowdStrike, McAfee, Symantec and Tenable.

Third, increase the number of bursaries tenable only at boarding primary schools in Karamoja.

The company has about 15,000 paying customers, a roughly 30 to 40 percent increase from last year, according to Jack Huffard, the president and chief operating officer of Tenable.

The number of gene duplication and loss events that are implied by a given rooting hypothesis can be used to assess the chances that a given hypothesis is tenable [59].

In this way logic provides an inventory of possibilities, a repertory of abstractly tenable hypotheses.

Methodological limitations of the work presented here include the assumption of equal sized arms; equal standard deviations; Normality assumptions (which might not be tenable for small numbers of clusters as well as small numbers of individuals); and lack of continuity correction for binary variables.

Foremost among them is giving a theoretically tenable account of the location of such a threshold, either absolutely or on a sliding scale (Alexander 2000; Ellis 1992).