Sentence examples for be more defensible from inspiring English sources
Of course, America's penchant for overspending on defense would be more defensible if it received what it paid for.
It would be more defensible if officials allowed mainstream journalists to report more of what they want.
Had Thoreau broadened it to include himself, it would be less obnoxious; had he broadened it to include everyone (à la Sartre), it would be more defensible.
Eric Park, of Ziba, a design consultancy, reckons companies must also think about drug delivery systems and patient-friendly packaging, which could create a new kind of branded intellectual property that might be more defensible than drug patents.
That would be more defensible if he hadn't established a precedent for treating recreational pot smoking as a kind of football felony, deserving a four-game suspension, or worse.
Lastly, point-of-sale borrower acquisition channels may also be more defensible in the long-term than the channels used in consumer refinancing, such as Google AdWords, Facebook ads and direct mail.
Other subsidies, such as paying for poor families' heating oil, are more defensible.
But had the provisions really been confined to purely private disputes without affecting shareholders, they might have been more defensible in the federal court.
In this sense, intervening in the Italian and Spanish markets was more defensible than the earlier support operations for Greece, which had been clearly insolvent.
But he insisted that the Supreme Court's recent decisions limiting the scope of federal power were more defensible than than those of previous eras of judicial activism, the 1930's and 1960's, because the court was merely acting as a "structural referee" between federal and state governments.
