Sentence examples for could be defensible from inspiring English sources

Contractualists claim that the rules of morality are those that would or could be defensible to all others in the bargaining arrangement.

It was disavowed earlier this week by senior legal advisers to the Bush administration who said the memo would be reviewed and revised because it created a false impression that torture could be legally defensible.

It's pretty difficult to be a conscientious omnivore and avoid all the ethical problems, but if you really were thorough-going in eating only animals that had had good lives, that could be a defensible ethical position.

This is the Fifth Avenue-53rd Street station, where the E and M trains roam, where a certain kind of subway crime could be ethically defensible, and where, for several passengers each night, the only way out of the subway for about an hour was to slip back in.

Its position must be defensible.

A solid patent has to be defensible.

So be defensible and hide your supplies.

The pros and cons of that approach could be debated, but it is defensible.

Honestly, that could be a pretty ideologically defensible position if you didn't think about the money changing hands here.

If evolution rates could be estimated in a defensible and consistent manner, the implication of the neutral theory might be tested by comparing estimates conditioned on essentiality.

It remains unclear how this could be achieved practically, or how defensible decisions could be made.