Sentence examples for defensible ones from inspiring English sources

My goal was to use the answer to this question to distinguish bogus rules of usage from defensible ones.

Although I'm normally happy to turn over my paychecks to the missus and not inquire into what happens to them, my encounters with Grantham tend to whip me into a state of alarm that has me thinking about acquiring tracts of arable timbered high ground, preferably defensible ones well inland from the rising seas.

Baldwin points this out — although, like everyone who takes a position on copyright, he also thinks that his is the philosophically defensible one.

A bold claim, but also a defensible one.

"And I don't think the Democrats' strategy is a defensible one".

Whether it was the right tactical move won't be clear for a while, but it was certainly a defensible one, especially in view of the broader political environment.

I asked why, and he said, "Because they don't want their dirty laundry aired in public!" That's an understandable reason, of course, but it's hardly a defensible one.

Yellen's argument is a defensible one, but there are unmistakable signs of frothiness — from the Twitter I.P.O., to the record sales in the art market, to the price of Brooklyn brownstones.

With the country clearly needing higher spending on things like transport infrastructure and community colleges, the attractions of the "grand bargain" are obvious, and I think the general idea of combining tax reform with spending proposals is an eminently defensible one.

Nor an ethically defensible one.

Every time you denied that being in the middle was a position so you didn't have to ask if it was a defensible one.