Sentence examples for be a more defensible from inspiring English sources

It would be a more defensible policy if American parties were like European parties - but they are not, with the consequence that the policy becomes a hostage to the Republican right when the Republicans are in power and is constrained by them when the Democrats are in the White House.

General Nathanael Greene advocating moving the entire Continental Army to this position, believing the Christina River to be a more defensible point, but Washington declined, instead ordering Maxwell to monitor British movements and slow its advance while the rest of the army fortified the Red Clay Creek and Wilmington.

Convinced the Union was preparing to advance down the Mississippi River in September 1861, Polk decided Columbus, Ky., was a more defensible position than the one he occupied in Tennessee.

Or perhaps it was a more defensible reluctance to reassure a patient falsely when I didn't know what she had, a decision I might later come to regret.

But while this is certainly a more defensible position than breathless technophilia, or the blithe stories of triumphally self-regulating urban ecosystems the vendors themselves peddle, I happen to believe this is not the case.

If Mr. Romney's points were to be reformulated in a more defensible direction, the outline might look something like this: OF MAKING AND TAKING The correct distinction is not "makers versus takers".

The bottom line is that the overall industry revenues must also come down and, because the result will be a more efficient industry, any non-defensible excess profit in the industry will be removed.

Had disagreements about the seriousness of the recession, or about the balance between tax rises and spending cuts, been aired through proper cabinet committee (and full cabinet) debates, there would have been leaks, no doubt; but there would have been a more coherent, defensible policy at the end of it.

Hence, teaching toward student "acceptance of evolution as the best scientific explanation currently available" (p. 341) is a more ethically defensible educational goal as long as it is not required of students (Southerland et al. [2001]), a conclusion similarly reached by Smith and Siegel ([2004]).

The result will be a much more defensible foundation by which to start.

It is possible to establish a more defensible cyberspace an Internet where defenders have the advantage over attackers.