Sentence examples for defensible action from inspiring English sources

A measure of Kurdish reluctance in northern Iraq to judge fellow Kurds is that several Kurds explained in interviews that killing Turkish soldiers was a defensible action.

But he has allowed the Republicans to turn a very defensible military action — arguably, our only current military engagement that seems to make any sense — into an attack on the Obama administration for abuse of executive power.

Until we have a much better understanding of the processes and the true risks, until there are mandatory rules in place to control these risks and eliminate the extreme harm, and until the industry actually follows those rules, the only defensible course of action is a cautious one.

Were our actions defensible?

The San Jose protests were far more chaotic and seemingly less defensible than the Chicago action.

By far the most defensible rationale for military action is -- and has been from the outset -- the humanitarian objective: the responsibility to protect populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Using a formal decision theory sampling design encourages economically efficient actions, and provides defensible and transparent rationale for management actions.

But even then, its actions were defensible.

Even gun rights advocate and the former Utah Jazz star Karl Malone writes that he finds nothing defensible about Arenas's actions.

Norén is partnered by the laid-back Danish cop Martin Rohde, on the trail of a killer who believes his actions are defensible for social reasons.

Nothing makes Russia's actions here defensible, and Putin is a thug, and Medvedev is his tool and all the rest of it.