The phrase "defensible of" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward or non-standard.
It is possible that someone may use it in a sentence, but it is not considered grammatically correct. Example: Despite the criticism, the author's actions were defensible of his artistic integrity.
What's unusual about the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major battle of the American Revolution, is that the battle actually took place on Breed's Hill, the smaller and less defensible of two hills outside Boston.
Such centrism, Mr Kusnet contends, covers Mr Kerry's fire as he attempts to narrow the tax debate with Republicans down to the least publicly defensible of Mr Bush's tax cuts: those on inheritance, dividends and capital gains that benefit the filthy rich.The politics of the proposals certainly seem canny.
Proper identification of racehorses competing in an official race and maintenance of defensible chain of custody are important in doping control regulations.
These theories have failed from the lack of a defensible account of the nature of aesthetic experience (Carroll 1999).
Some people are led to moral nihilism by the absence of any defensible theory of morality.
However the consensus view (e.g., Hintikka 1962; Lenzen 1978; Fagin et al. 1995) is that the most defensible choices of logics of knowledge lie between the modal systems \ \textsf{S4}\) and \ \textsf{S5}\).
Overall, the organisations interviewed provided an impression of the use of the literature to inform their assessment processes and the use of robust, defensible assessments of overseas-trained health professionals who wish to practice in Australia.
This line of occupation of Britain was consolidated as one of the limites (defensible frontiers) of the empire by its construction.
Bravo! Bob Collins Newport News, Va., Feb. 14, 2008 ● There are two logically consistent, intellectually defensible ways of reporting counts of delegates: Report only counts of pledged delegates, omitting estimates of caucus-state delegates and estimates of superdelegates.
The WestJet video provides a defensible example of the power of emotions.
One of the less defensible assumptions of microeconomics is that people get paid their "marginal product," i.e., their wage equals the value of the output they produce.
