This would be a terrible thing even if it were in a defensible cause.
They have done, one gathers, some nasty stuff in their day, though usually for a decent or at least defensible cause.
"No completely defensible cause has ever been so poorly defended as this one," André Glucksmann said in his apartment, up in the Tenth Arrondissement, the day after Bastille Day.
For police to arrest someone on criminal charges, they must either obtain a warrant or demonstrate to a judge at a probable cause hearing that they had a legally defensible reason to arrest the person.
Well, because Pistorius has a defensible case.
"We think it is a defensible case".
While the latter is defensible, the former causes deviations at high current densities.
It would not be much of a defence for the government to say that its policies are defensible because, although they foreseeably cause child abuse, the abuse is not what the government intended.
No one has ever believed illegal drug use could be eliminated, but there was a defensible view that prohibition could prevent more harm than it caused.
Howe's position was otherwise strong and defensible, but the appearance of the British in the Patriot rear caused a panic.
The theories, rational choice, routine activities, CPTED, and defensible space techniques, comprise an important basis for explaining some of the root causes of certain crimes that may occur repeatedly in specific locations.
