Sentence examples for defensible remark from inspiring English sources
Hunt made matters worse by telling reporters that Tenzing was a good climber "within the limits of his experience" — a defensible remark, for Tenzing knows little of, say, rock-climbing in Europe, but an odd thing to say of a man who had more experience of Everest than anybody else in the world.
Human research ethics committees are obliged under Australian ethical guidelines to review the appropriateness of plans to communicate results or not to do so, but interestingly only 3 of 14 committees acknowledged the ethically defensible plan, or made remarks on the return of results issue in any way.
("I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettoes without moving people," he remarked, "as I hail the chef who can make omelettes without breaking eggs"). Far less defensible, along with the racism, was the short-sightedness of his car-centric vision: Moses simply couldn't comprehend a future in which mass transit, bicycles or walking might play a central role.
Were our actions defensible?
This reluctance is defensible.
This execution is defensible.
