Setting aside the obvious question of whether demanding a boycott is a morally defensible idea — or a strategically shrewd one — it's worth asking if the warning will even have the immediate effect that China desires.
Ms. Seiler's solo line is focused and often sizzling, and she makes a point of adding stylish ornamentation, along with programmatically freewheeling but defensible phrasing ideas.
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.
The death of business method patents could be felt strongest in Silicon Valley, where a first step of many entrepreneurs is to retreat with lawyers to start patenting defensible business ideas.
Oscar Newman's Defensible Space (1973) ideas have had a profound influence on both urban planning and criminology during the past 30 years or so.
Some of his ideas seem defensible.
Defensible space builds on ideas of territoriality and ownership of space, arising from specific design features, building form, and location, combined with a symbolic understanding of the image of a place.
SBD has its roots in the idea of "defensible space", created by the American architect and town planner Oscar Newman in the early 1970s, as a result of research he carried out in three deprived New York housing projects.
Both in the US and in Britain the idea of defensible space was very popular because it provided a simple solution: rather than engaging with complex social relations as the underlying causes of crime, SBD promoted the idea that environmental design was the biggest influence on behaviour.
For Nordenfelt, his definition can become more defensible by incorporating the idea of basic human capabilities and justifiable through freestanding ethical reasoning.
