Sentence examples for a tenable idea from inspiring English sources

That is a tenable idea (the al-Qaeda people picked up in Afghanistan are not ordinary prisoners-of-war), but untested in court.

That doesn't seem like a tenable idea for many budget-minded schools.

It is, however, a more tenable idea if that connection is still partly intact.To test that idea out, a clinical trial is planned at UCLA to test the technique for rehabilitating patients whose spinal cords are incompletely severed.

If retiring at an older age is prospectively beneficial to elderly persons' well-being, retaining older individuals in the labor force may appear a desirable and tenable idea.

As Raz himself notes, however (especially in Raz 1996b), this 'straddling the divide' approach may in fact seem to undermine the very ideas that there is a tenable distinction between legal reasoning in senses (a) and (b), and that there are gaps in the law.

"On the other hand, I never thought that was quite a tenable situation".

Among Kumārila's guiding intuitions here is the commonsensical thought that radical skepticism is not a tenable idea that, in other words, it is to be presumed that we are, simply as a matter of empirical fact, already justified in believing a great deal, and that the task of epistemology is therefore to consider what must be the case in order for that to be so.

This is not a tenable future.

"The idea that this subjective intent of somebody making a payment, without more, turns the payment into a campaign contribution — it's not the law, and it's just not a tenable theory," he said.

"This isn't a tenable position for you to take, in my view," Mr. Carnes wrote.

This is not a tenable arrangement for a commercial power station.