Sentence examples for defensible act from inspiring English sources

It was a defensible act, and perhaps several minutes overdue, but physically clumsy to such a magnificent degree that it smudged out the actual meaning of everything he had said before and everything he would say after.

Jackson's one defensible act as president was drafting Kristaps Porzingis, and even that he almost soured irreversibly when, last week, just before the N.B.A. draft, he made an ostentatious show of entertaining trade offers for the best young Knicks prospect in a generation.

The lawyers concluded that efforts to hunt and kill Mr. bin Laden were defensible either as acts of war or as national self defense, legitimate under both American and international law.

Western Washington University emeritus philosophy professor Phillip Montague says in an essay titled "Defending Defensive Targeted Killings" that use of this tactic against combatants can be seen as defensible and justified acts against terrorism or those who assist terrorist organizations.

She concluded that the Bush-era ozone rules are "not defensible" under the Clean Air Act, and she committed to creating a legal standard that protects Americans' health.

One of the act's least defensible aspects is that agents of the government can visit libraries to search records.

Even if Mr. Clinton had been convinced, as he says, that the prosecution of Mr. Rich was mistaken, his defense of the pardon does not meet the point that Mr. Rich did not make his arguments in court but became a fugitive -- and it was no more defensible for Mr. Clinton to act at the behest of Israeli politicians.

Vatican officials say this paradox is both defensible and beneficial: unlike diplomats who act for a state, and whose first duty is to promote and protect its interests, papal envoys strive for the good of humanity.

The former federal court judge Ronald Sackville has suggested that amendments to remove "offend", "insult" and "humiliate", and create an objective test for hate speech, would create a more defensible balance in the Racial Discrimination Act.

This is obvious when it comes to an issue like sexual predation: men may have strong sexual urges, but most of those cannot be acted on in a morally defensible way.

Even if his directive is legally defensible, Mr. Martin said, Mr. Obama may be paving the way for future Republican presidents to act similarly to contravene laws that Democrats cherish.