Sentence examples for defensible for a from inspiring English sources

13 While this approach is defensible for a review article, one cannot avoid noticing the difference in characteristics between these prospectively studied populations and the non-selected population that cataract surgery centres handle in clinical practice.

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But while such an approach is entirely defensible for an experimental system intended to illustrate the role of plans and intentions in a specialized domain, it leaves open the question of how large amounts of linguistic knowledge and world knowledge could be incorporated into a dialogue system, and used inferentially in planning communicative (and other) actions.

Some think that religious doctrines do make a difference to scientific practice, yet are defensible for all that (Plantinga 1996).

First, I'll argue that there are quite defensible reasons for a reluctance to abandon theories of rationality in favor of psychological theories.

As long as intercollegiate athletics reside in the higher education environment, these programs must be academically compatible with their larger institutions, subordinate to their educational mission, and defensible from a not-for-profit organizational standpoint.

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.

"Neither is it humane or defensible for GPs to be forced to manage patients with complex multiple problems in a pressure-cooker intensity of 10-minute aliquots," he said.

Israel, for its part, rejects the 1967 borders as insufficiently defensible for its security.

Anonymous quotations are entirely defensible for whistle-blowers, but not for manipulative officials and commercial rivals.

But if a mixed campus is considered in the state's interest because it improves everyone's education, then racial preferences would be defensible for years to come.