For most companies in today's Internet economy, it's not about revenue, but about market share and grabbing a position that will be huge and defensible in a couple of years' time.
It's not fine to fearmonger and scare people away from WhatsApp… because of a minor and defensible difference in the kind of warnings it gives and the blocking behavior of a few undelivered messages when someone changes phones or SIM cards," she adds.
In 2000, Kaufman et al. compared the Angoff method (different from the modified Angoff, whereby judges estimate 'the probability that a 'minimally acceptable' or borderline candidate would answer an item correctly') [ 13] and the BG method, and found that both provide reasonable and defensible results in the medical school setting [ 6].
Perhaps these relationships were defensible in the 1980s and 1990s when business and the unions seemed more possessed by a sense of national interest.
Something is seriously wrong with the way we have come to think about the relationship between wealth and want, about which privileges are defensible in the face of others' suffering.
Recognizing that a direct comparison between pathogen MIC and synovial fluid concentration is not defensible in the absence of supportive clinical data, a qualitative comparison is helpful in suggesting the potential for efficacy.
However, we are not aware of any other data on child undernutrition in Kenya with more than four data points over time, and therefore consider the present effort defensible in the interest of providing the best trend estimates possible with the limited data now available.
This evolved to "defensible" in the 19th century and now, we commonly understand it as "capable of being continued".
"I think it's inevitable - and most people in Parliament think it's not defensible in the future to have a different system of accountability for academy chains and local authorities," he said.
Packer: Jon Lee is absolutely right, and I thought that passage was one of the less thoughtful or defensible in the book.
