Sentence examples similar to defensible assertion from inspiring English sources
It's not a defensible statement.
People like Kantoos or Tyler Cowen start from the presumption that when people with the right credentials, like Cochrane, or Jean-Claude Trichet, or Robert Lucas make strong statements, that they must have a defensible model behind their assertions.
Much less defensible is the judge's assertion that the data collection is authorized by a section of the Patriot Act that allows the government to obtain business records "relevant to an authorized investigation" of espionage or terrorism.
Rackspace, we are now told, is "the #1 managed cloud company". The assertion may even be defensible, and it starts to paint a nice cosy picture of a neutral Rackspace, calmly, efficiently, and fanatically (hmm... this may be one of those places that 'fanatical' really doesn't work in front of 'support') supporting its customers' workloads on whatever cloud(s) they choose.
But neither statement is defensible.
In recent days, the president and his aides have tried to recast his original assertion to make it more defensible.
Defensible because of the Second Amendment's ambiguous assertion that "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
Months later the claims continued to be amplified; the National Review editor Jonah Goldberg used Mr. Kiriakou's assertions in a column last year to argue that the waterboarding was "right and certainly defensible".
Were our actions defensible?
This reluctance is defensible.
