The phrase "defensible about" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that can be defended or justified. You can use it when discussing a topic that has multiple perspectives or opinions and you want to express that your stance is justifiable. Example: "Her argument about the benefits of social media may seem controversial, but it is defensible when considering its potential for connecting people from all over the world."
There is of course nothing remotely defensible about sexual abuse.
Even gun rights advocate and the former Utah Jazz star Karl Malone writes that he finds nothing defensible about Arenas's actions.
For the most part, those concerned with whether moral realism is true are forced to work back and forth between an intuitive grasp of which claims are at issue and an articulate but controversial account of what they have in common such that realism either is, or is not, defensible about them.
There is nothing defensible about that, and nothing new.
There's nothing defensible about the case playing out in Virginia, in which authorities were granted a warrant by a judge to force a 17-year-old boy to have an erection and be photographed for evidence.
The only way to determine anything defensible about bias in reporting is to analyze a scientific sample -- to examine a slice of stories that's large enough to be representative of all stories, and to choose that slice randomly, without knowing what's going to be in it.
Though wars are complicated things, it's not hard to develop a defensible position about their legitimacy or illegitimacy.
I'd say there are a few ways to think about what a bubble is or might be.A bubble could be a pure, financial-market ponzi game, in which prices bear no relation to any defensible story about future fundamentals.
It could be a sustained rise in prices that is reasonable given particular, defensible expectations about the future, but which deflates once it becomes clear that particular version of the future has not come to pass.
They aren't making more of coastal California, you may have noticed, and on defensible beliefs about demand for coastal California, supply growth in coastal metros, and credit conditions prices for Los Angeles homes make perfect sense.
"Recognizing that a complete recent ownership history may not be obtainable for all archaeological material and every work of ancient art," the museum directors' group says, its members "should have the right to exercise their institutional responsibility to make informed and defensible judgments about the appropriateness of acquiring such an object".
