Sentence examples for have been defensible from inspiring English sources

Either course would have been defensible; floundering between them suggested a lack of mettle.

The sex scenes and references are too numerous and sustained for a 15 classification to have been defensible.

Each of these projects may have been defensible in isolation, but in combination they created the impression of a federal onslaught.

This stance may have been defensible in terms of some perceived national interest, but in no way was it consonant with a principled esteem for democracy.

That decision might have been defensible based on the remuneration G.M. would have received, the automotive technology it would have transferred and the prospect that it could turn this leg of its core car business around.

The Fed's interventions have been defensible given the scale of the crisis and lack of alternatives, but they have exposed it to public anger over bail-outs for bankers.

But had the provisions really been confined to purely private disputes without affecting shareholders, they might have been more defensible in the federal court.

Maybe that would have been a defensible reason back in 1942 not to choose him to lead the Los Alamos project, though it would have been a mistake.

The Iraq group would have been on defensible ground had it suggested that the U.S., far from protecting an infant democracy from reactionary thugs, had instead been drawn into a round-robin struggle for political power, religious primacy and oil wealth.

But what he did, with the help of a female freshman friend, would not have been any more defensible if he had been broadcasting Clementi in an intimate moment with a girl.

"Perhaps somewhere, charter schools have been implemented in a defensible manner, where they have provided quality," he said.