Sentence examples for had a defensible from inspiring English sources

A PalmOne executive said that despite the proliferation of qwerty competitors, the company believed it had a defensible advantage because of the physical design of the Treo 600.

Asked by Ferrari why he had not declared his candidacy earlier, Boris replied that he wanted to be sure he had "a defensible record" before committing.

The outcome might have been different if Mr. Bronstein had not lost the penultimate game, in which he had a defensible position, or if he had not blundered in the sixth game when he had an easy draw.

The chancellor had a defensible reason for this a revision in June to the national growth figures suggested that, contrary to earlier belief, the economy in 1999 had not in fact marked a new cycle by dipping below its full capacity.

You had a defensible but non-urgent goal -- the removal of Saddam Hussein, one of history's monsters -- as a pre-defined objective, to which all "fact gathering" and "deliberations" and "debates" were subordinated (and the selection of which owed much more to the vainglory of the president, and the egos of the Secretary of Defense and the Vice-President, than to any matters of national security).

Well, because Pistorius has a defensible case.

Linda Chavez might have a defensible legal claim that she did not employ Ms. Mercado.

He does have a defensible record as president, which is why liberals are defending him, even if they are disillusioned.

In other words, OEMs have a defensible rationale for creating a proprietary, vertical structure that generates long-term strategic gains.

People like Kantoos or Tyler Cowen start from the presumption that when people with the right credentials, like Cochrane, or Jean-Claude Trichet, or Robert Lucas make strong statements, that they must have a defensible model behind their assertions.

She has for a few decades needed a "platform," or an issue she advocates for as she "runs" for the title of Miss America, and now she must have a defensible opinion on anything and everything.