The divided loyalties maintained by physicians, specialists, and practitioners of various healing modalities, and the schizophrenic split that it creates for patients in search of ways to heal their ills is no longer a tenable state of affairs.
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.
Under heightened scrutiny, "a tenable justification must describe actual state purposes, not rationalizations for actions in fact differently grounded".
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".
Despite its vagueness, this revised metaphor represents a tenable middle way between Jefferson's call for absolute separation and the dangerous, full-scale integration of church and state sought by conservative Christian groups.
Well, that's not a tenable position.
This is not a tenable future.
