Any defensible account of the proper role of the judiciary has to distinguish between what a conscientious judge does and what a conscientious legislator does, with the latter having the scope to take a wider range of considerations into account when weighing a law.
The Former House Speaker once referred to Romney's role at Bain as "exploitive" and "not defensible".
But other Republicans maintain their position is defensible, consistent with what they say is the Senate's co-equal role in the process to offer advice and consent — or in this case the lack thereof.
We agree that selection processes must be rigorous and publicly defensible (Prideaux et al. 2011) and that personality assessment may play an important role to the selection of medical students.
Although the choice of peers instead of standardized patients was defensible as argued above, and although the results show that their feedback was valued, additional training in the patient role might have increased the fidelity of the peers' performance.
Until now, the role of the credit ratings agencies in the financial crisis had seemed — to me, at least — to be defensible.
Were our actions defensible?
This reluctance is defensible.
This execution is defensible.
