"Turning off" is simply not a tenable solution in the digital age; with so much work, communication, and socializing taking place on screens, few of us can afford to be off-line for significant portions of the workday (or even evenings and weekends).
The battle over how to protect the Great Lakes ecosystem – which accounts for 20% of the world's freshwater – has now made it to the US Supreme Court, where Michigan and other Great Lakes states are suing the state of Illinois to temporarily shut canals in the Chicago area that connect the Mississippi River system to Lake Michigan, thus blocking the fish's path until a tenable solution is agreed.
But as much as we would love to see all the Christians of the Middle East find a safe haven in, say, Marseille, we know that it is not a tenable solution.
A more tenable solution to this problem is to electrospray directly into high vacuum from a heated capillary, as has recently been demonstrated for other applications (Ninomiya et al., 2011).
At its climate change conference in Copenhagen this December, the U.N. should launch a campaign to build public-private partnerships to turn the promise of desalination into a more tenable solution.
Given that any tenable solution to reducing carbon emissions will be market-based, it is past time to propose solutions to make the C.D.M. work for the countries that have been cut out of it to date.
But they should also help us find a tenable, long-term solution for the detainees remaining there.
A wig therefore seemed the only tenable solution – but even the most ingeniously convincing one would still have to come off every night.
If you're in an abusive situation at work, the most tenable solution may be to leave — if that's a possibility.
The fighting will go on for a long time, inflaming the whole neighborhood, and any tenable solution will require Syria's Sunnis, Alawis, Christians, and Kurds to believe that there will be a safe and fair place for them in a new order.
A one-factor dimensional structure and a reduced version with 20 locally independent items were the most tenable solution.
