It must draw defensible conclusions, based on the evidence (and not speculation), and must make responsible recommendations.
And they went on, "While we believe this month's baseline forecast is a reasonable and defensible projection based on our best thinking about all these risk factors, it is almost certain to change in ways that are not now predictable".
We cannot make a defensible conclusion based on these findings without examining how these crime data were recorded (or collected), which crime types were measured, or determining which country's data among the non-U.S.
A two-step methodology first estimates the number of trips evacuating the region, thereby capturing behavioral aspects in a scientifically defensible manner based on survey results, and second, assigns these trips to a regional highway network, using geographic information systems software, thereby making the methodology transferable to other locations.
Such measures will allow the full potential of the NHANES to be realized and defensible decisions based on the data and emerging science to be made.
I don't know how to put this kindly, but "the guy from Facebook" whose name Joey can't remember (Mark Zuckerberg) is a billionaire because he runs a company that is based on defensible intellectual property – a computer programme he wrote himself.
Neutral villages of bark-covered houses were situated on high, defensible ground; their economy was based on agriculture, supplemented by game, which was plentiful in this area.
Like Brunschvicg, Bachelard held that a defensible, realist philosophy had to be based on the science of its day.
Today, SBD is based on a combination of defensible space ideas and the purchase of security products, strongly backed by the insurance industry, which provides lower premiums for properties with SBD.
Whether this feature is objectionable depends on whether there are realistic cases in which (i) intervention-based criteria and criteria based on other considerations come into conflict and (ii) it is clear that the causal judgments supported by these other criteria are more defensible than those supported by interventionist criteria.
