Sentence examples for a tenable point from inspiring English sources

Demand destruction in oil consumption is a tenable point of view, abetted by the sloughing off of worldwide gross domestic product momentum.

Industry sources, questioning whether Mr Byer's position as a cabinet minister was still tenable, pointed out that the transport secretary now appeared to be "trying to keep two lame ducks afloat".

Hidalgo said the current situation was "no longer tenable", pointing to the example of a makeshift camp that had sprung up in the north of Paris in the past few days where 800 people are now living.

Fire engineering design requires maintaining a tenable condition for a period of time to allow occupants to evacuate to safety.

This is not a tenable future.

"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.

But, he says, acceptance by society of atheism as a tenable position is growing.

He added, "This is not a tenable policy for China or for the world economy".

But he still had a tenable position until he played 21... f5; 21... g6 would have been better.

The first hint I had that this was no longer a tenable pose -- and would not be a tenable pose for me -- came from a man I had never met called Morris Bart.