Sentence examples for a workable basis from inspiring English sources

"While it may suffice in defining pornography for purposes of regulating obscenity, 'I know it when I see it' does not provide a workable basis for defining critical terms in an injunction," the brief stated.

Showing that the defendant acted dishonestly by misusing access to confidential information is going to occur in virtually every case, so that hardly seems to be a workable basis to distinguish between those cases that deserve criminal prosecution and ones handled in only a civil proceeding.

The truth is that nobody today has a workable objective basis for judging new art, and so the artists who are most widely admired tend to function, more or less unwittingly, as an informal academy of the permanent avant-garde.

The safeguards in the Marris bill are so stringent that it is difficult to believe they could form the basis of a workable national system.

Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, told MPs on Wednesday that his own talks with counterparts at the weekend convinced him there was the "basis of a workable deal" on the most controversial issue of curbing migrant workers' benefits.

These early studies set the basis for a workable assay.

The STM approach provides a sound theoretical basis for restoration decisions, while the Bayesian network implementation provides a workable framework for using the STM adaptively.

To get a workable baseline, we need a starting point and this study offers that foundation.

A workable compromise, it seems.

"This is not a workable proposition".

Committed to a workable compromise.