Sentence examples for hardly defensible from inspiring English sources
While Dharmakīrti has sometimes been depicted as a dry practitioner of an essentially secular philosophy, this seems hardly defensible.
Permissible, perhaps, but hardly defensible.
I asked why, and he said, "Because they don't want their dirty laundry aired in public!" That's an understandable reason, of course, but it's hardly a defensible one.
Given that the signature "pervades both coding and noncoding DNA," its uniformity throughout the genome "cannot be explained by preferential codon usage [ 9]." The converse proposition, that codon usage is explained by dinucleotide relative abundance, is hardly more defensible, since dinucleotide frequencies do not determine trinucleotide frequencies [ 11].
Targeting ghost employees gives the Republicans an answer to that charge: They are not aiming at schoolchildren, they say, but rather at vacant jobs, hardly a politically defensible issue.
That is a defensible position, but it is hardly liberal (in the traditional meaning of the term).
Furthermore, the specific charges brought against the king were partisan and not uniformly defensible, and the general accusation that he intended to establish an "absolute Despotism" is hardly warranted.
Were our actions defensible?
This reluctance is defensible.
This execution is defensible.
