Sentence examples for defensible this from inspiring English sources

I'm still not vegetarian, but the older I get, the less defensible this state becomes – and not just because it's an implied term in my Guardian contract that I must abjure not only at least seven-eighths of any joy that comes my way in life but also any meat that isn't certified organic Norfolk roadkill or the cow in Douglas Adams' restaurant at the end of the universe.

Subsequent discussion has shown that the relationship between supervenience and reduction is a complicated matter, and though I think that Moore's position is defensible this is not the place to take the issue further.

The omnipresent gloom is certainly textually defensible in this death-haunted work, but as the scenes stretch on, it threatens to become a wet blanket dampening the delights of one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies.

If the widespread contemporary appreciation of humor is defensible, then this Irrationality Objection needs to be addressed.

Some references to God may indeed be defensible in this way: the use of "In God We Trust" on our currency, the "God Save this Honorable Court" that opens the sessions of the Supreme Court.

(Reath 1988 argues that Kant sometimes also deploys a more defensible, "secular" or this-worldly, notion of the highest good. Further recent discussion includes Kleingeld 1995 and Guyer 2000a & 2000b).

Although this statement is defensible, the confounding results regarding CRP levels should be clarified.

All things being equal, trying to sway different constituencies to one's electoral point of view is certainly defensible, but is this really the best use of resources at this point?

"Drawing legally and logically defensible lines around this situation will be tricky for them," he told me.

But with his talent for oversimplification, Reagan has taken this defensible record and built it into a mythology of unsurpassed achievement.

The one defensible relation to this temporal modality would be to leave the greatest number of options available for generations to come, as Daniel Innerarity argues in "The Future and Its Enemies".