Sentence examples for defensible so from inspiring English sources

When people go out for a meal and spend something that could have fed a family in Africa for three months that strikes me as something that is not defensible". So is eating for pleasure ever defensible?

To ignore smoking by hardcore smokers would serve to perpetuate these inequalities and is not defensible, so there is a need for brief smoking cessation interventions which are tailored to meet their needs, are feasible to apply in primary care consultations and are acceptable for general practitioners to use.

Some towns like Steamboat Springs and Vail, Colo., are surrounded by dead forests, and the Forest Service and logging companies are clear-cutting "defensible space" so firefighters have a place to fight fires.

His overarching thesis that Bachmann holds "a set of beliefs more extreme than those of any American politician of her stature" is defensible, and so are the connections he draws between her ideological perspective and the particular cluster of evangelical institutions where most of her political education took place.

Q: How do you build up a defensible business so that you're not one of many startups fighting for a piece of market share?

On the other hand, Rawls view fits with the claim by some contemporary theorists of knowledge that a coherence account of justification is distinguishable from a coherence account of truth and defensible when so separated.

The UN began to redeploy its forces to more defensible locations, so that they would be harder to attack or take hostage.

Salary cap concerns led General Manager Dean Lombardi to let 37-year-old defensive stalwart Willie Mitchell leave as a free agent last summer, a choice that was debatable but defensible — or so it seemed at the time.

So far, so defensible, but he then made a show of signing a pledge not to raise fees during the election – only to revert now to his prior position that abolition would be a mistake.

But these are democratically defensible goals only so long as they are for everyone, not just those who can afford to purchase them or the fewer who are fortunate enough to be philanthropically sponsored.

The better tradition allows Themistocles an archonship in 493, during which he started the walls of the Piraeus, turning it into a defensible harbour, and so first "dared to say that the Athenians must make the sea their domain" (as Thucydides puts it with forgivable exaggeration).