First, one-sided characterizations of legitimacy and priority are very likely, at least over the long term, to undermine the political credibility of their proponents and the defensibility of the rights they regard as preeminently important.
Normally a venture investor is focusing on the scalability and defensibility of the technology, the strength and abilities of the management team and the overall execution of the organization.
In defensible patches, increasing perceived predation risk had the same effect as reducing the economic defensibility of the patch.
I then calculate the defensibility of a large region in Gulf of Georgia and lower Fraser River valley of British Columbia, and assess the defensibility of a large sample of recorded pre- and post-contact archaeological sites in light of the baseline defensibility of the landscape.
Nonetheless, the defensibility of the contention that someone can be better off dead has been the subject of extensive philosophical deliberation.
The upshot, accordingly, is that the above argument appears to stand or fall with the defensibility of the inductive inference from (1) to (2).
Underdetermination actually comes in a wide variety of strengths, he insists, depending on precisely what is being asserted about the character, the availability, and (most importantly) the rational defensibility of the various competing hypotheses or ways of revising our beliefs that the evidence supposedly leaves us free to accept.
Before incorporating such assessments in a program of assessment, measures should be in place to optimize the credibility and defensibility of the assessments, which in turn should be grounded in a good understanding of human judgment in performance assessment.
"Powerful as the urge may be to grant retribution to those who have suffered irreparable loss, the state's primary interest must be in the evenhandedness and moral defensibility of justice," the Virginian-Pilot declared.Editorial-writers at the newspaper have wrestled with the issue for years, but a recent case seemed to tip the balance.
Within a technocracy, the only thing that matters is the defensibility of one's arguments, not the backstory of the person making them, or how good they are at telling jokes.
