He added: "We believe that a robust and legally-defensible objective justification needs to be in place, in the event of an independence vote, before the Act that would create an independent Scotland is enforced".
He was wrong because it is not morally or philosophically defensible to lower objective standards to achieve any end result.
When the field data allow for specification of time series for each phytoplankton and zooplankton state variable, PEST will provide an objective, defensible, and repeatable way to calibrate the many parameters of the NEMURO model.
Educational quality is best served when all schools are held evenly accountable, rising or falling on their own merits as judged by parents and objective, defensible criteria that take demographic differences fully into account.
The establishment of corresponding management options relies on scientifically defensible efforts to obtain objective data on the prevalence of bacterial resistance in healthy and diseased livestock.
Setting a passing score must result from a transparent, reproducible, objective, and defensible process [ 15], but ultimately standard setting is arbitrary.
"In the past, we were satisfied that our objectives were defensible, right, and proper — with victory, something good would come," he continues.
This is tantamount to saying that the ultimate objective of all defensible political practice is to make power-in-common prevail as far as possible over domination.
An explicit, open and transparent prioritisation procedure making use of the evidence base with a clear set of goals and objectives is more defensible than implicit decision making techniques.
Instead, they need to use a considered framework to develop a defensible corporate performance scorecard that produces both objective and subjective measures of performance.
