So the ruling, however legally defensible, will add to a U.S. homicide rate that's already, by far, the highest in the Western world.
The strategy is defensible, however, given the way Seattle has let its stars go and continues to contend.
That position is, however, more than defensible, and it follows logically from very widely shared pro-life premises.
I am not saying that the violence in "Bonnie and Clyde" is legally acceptable because the film is a work of art; I think that "Bonnie and Clyde," though flawed, is a work of art, but I think that the violence in "The Dirty Dozen," which isn't a work of art, and whose violence offends me personally, should also be legally defensible, however morally questionable.
However, the most defensible elements of his argument to establish the fundamental principle of morality rest on a claim that will be unlikely to impress a true skeptic, that the autonomy of our wills is a presupposition of any practical point of view recognizable as such by us.
However, this notion is not defensible because, firstly, the physicians in the focus group meetings indicated that they sometimes use stereotypes as a diagnostic tool.
However, these choices were clinically defensible as there may have been cases where antidiabetic treatment was prescribed by other physicians, and therefore not recorded.
We would be back to the vignettes of Americans complaining about private insurers doing their actuarially sound and defensible thing, which can, however, be so devastating on American families.
In the light of the findings of the human genome project, however, that idea is no longer defensible – as the leading psychologist Ken Richardson recently pointed out in the house magazine of the psychology profession.
However, we believe this simplification is defensible when sufficient data, expertise, or other resources are lacking.
