These assumptions are more tenable than alternative assumptions that would be required for crude analytic sample size calculations and that may yield underpowered and inefficient studies.
By going public and calling attention to Rodriguez's demands, Phillips might be able to depress the market for the shortstop, and maybe, in the end, the Mets can jump back into the talks, when they are more tenable.
Typically, sales are not actually store-wide, but rather occur on a department-by-department or brand-by-brand basis--it's more tenable that way for quality control.
Which one is more tenable?
"It is more tenable to think of nervous tensions which are built up until, periodically, they precipitate an orgasm," Kinsey wrote, "but again, the physiology is not understood.
A two-factor solution for the WHOQOL-SRPB is more tenable, in which three of the eight WHOQOL-SRPB facets group together as a spiritual coping factor and the remaining facets form a factor of spiritual quality of life.
That, the aide said, would be more politically tenable than using the loophole of a trillion-dollar coin, issued under a legal provision that allows the Treasury to mint a platinum coin of any denomination.
When the assumptions for analysis of variance are not tenable, the corresponding nonparametric tests, as well as being appropriate, can be more powerful.
A second option that may be more tenableand quickerwould be to cleave each of the Big Four in half, re-creating the Big Eight.
The identification of the whole populace of Zürich with this elect people was the more tenable because those not in accord with the ideal were disposed to leave.
