Sentence examples for have been tenable from inspiring English sources

That view may just about have been tenable even after Hussey made three in an Australian total of 674 for six in Cardiff, and it was certainly not contradicted by a fighting 51 – his side's top score – in the first innings at Lord's.

The Jean Valjean routine may have been tenable when he started in the business, four decades ago, but it doesn't explain why he would still be trafficking now, when his fortune, according to Forbes, amounts to as much as a billion dollars.

While such a position might have been tenable 100 years ago, it is unacceptable in the twenty-first century" [ 10].

More invasive measures such as muscle biopsy assessment of muscle mitochondrial function, 1 2 23 which would have been of great interest, were not tenable for the Australian or the Bolivian players.

If sphericity for a given factor was not tenable, the reported F ratios have been adjusted with a Greenhouse Geisser correction.

But he still had a tenable position until he played 21... f5; 21... g6 would have been better.

For 50 years, the primary structures of lignins have been thought to be random, but for a number of reasons such an assumption is not tenable.

During the negotiations, a good outcome hung in the balance for a long time, but the agreement we now have is, I think, a tenable one.

Membrane aeroelasticity has been identified as a tenable method to alleviate these issues: flexible wing structures with geometric twist (adaptive washout for gust rejection, delayed stall) and aerodynamic twist (adaptive inflation for high lift, larger stability margins) are both considered here.

Furthermore, the traditional phylogenetic position of the Magnoliaceae as sister to remaining angiosperms (Cronquist Magnolialean hypothesis; Cronquist 1988;) is no longer tenable and has been replaced by the APG system (Qiu et al. 1999; Hilu et al. 2003; APG 2009; Chase and Reveal 2009; Vialette-Guiraud and Scutt 2009; Soltis et al. 2011).

"Tenable is a company we've been trying to invest in for a couple of years".