Sentence examples for defensible that the from inspiring English sources

"The most pressing crisis situation is in Europe right now, so it's defensible that the I.M.F. should have a lot of its eggs in the European basket," said Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based research institute, and a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.

It remains defensible that the Dutch Book argument shows that the probability axioms are something like consistency constraints on partial belief, at least given some substantial decision-theoretic assumptions, unlike the idea that their violation is a pragmatic liability.

As my TechCrunch colleague Sarah Perez recently pointed out, Ask.fm is by no means the first social network to run into problems with online bullying — albeit, that perhaps makes it even less defensible that the company has not made stronger provisions to deal with misuse/abuse of its service from the get-go.

Fighting is still a part of the N.H.L., although the more people who read about Derek Boogaard's heart-rending fate, the less defensible that is, and the Mets' fortunes are still sinking like a rock.

The focus here is not on whether the law is defensible (that will come later), but rather on what the law is with all its inherent clarity, confusion, and controversy.

They wanted to know the quality of Invoca's technology, the market opportunity, the business model, its competitive position, and how defensible that position was.

In the end, like Mr. Friedman, I had convinced myself that war in Iraq was a "war of choice," and a defensible choice at that, the administration's "phony reasons" and shortsighted diplomatic tactics notwithstanding.

"The Hall of Fame already includes men who helped institute and defend the color line, and there is no defensible argument that makes the color line more benign than P.E.D. use".

Rome was built on a defensible hill that dominated the last downstream, high-banked river crossing where traverse of the Tiber was facilitated by a midstream island.

"Communism killed Kennedy" remains one of the few defensible statements that the John Birch Society ever issued.

He has, he says, to be sure that what he's doing is defensible, stressing that the intent is important.