Sentence examples for defensible ways from inspiring English sources

Bravo! Bob Collins Newport News, Va., Feb. 14, 2008 ● There are two logically consistent, intellectually defensible ways of reporting counts of delegates: Report only counts of pledged delegates, omitting estimates of caucus-state delegates and estimates of superdelegates.

Quine supports an epistemic thesis when he claims that incompatible scientific theories can account equally adequately for the data available to us (his underdetermination thesis) and that "there are various defensible ways of conceiving the world", (Quine 1992: 102).

Reflecting on this result, there are several defensible ways in which this finding could be interpreted.

Given these three variance components, there are at least two defensible ways to divide variance explained over the direct and indirect effect, but neither of them is without disadvantages.

"This was reading the law in the most defensible way".

First off, it's a relatively defensible way to pay out healthy bonuses.

"Some of the processes have really had to be unpicked and put back together again in a much tighter, defensible way.

This is obvious when it comes to an issue like sexual predation: men may have strong sexual urges, but most of those cannot be acted on in a morally defensible way.

David McKittrick, author of many books on Northern Ireland, said that for the I.R.A., which had always resisted any move that might connote surrender, the appearance of peace on the ground offered a defensible way out.

The only morally defensible way to bring workers into the country, he said, is with green cards that allow them to quit working for the sponsoring employer and stay in the United States.

"The lesson," he adds, "is to find a significant pain and solve it in a unique, defensible way".