Sentence examples for in defensible from inspiring English sources

Males are expected to adopt the resource defense strategy when food is limiting and distributed in defensible patches, when females are reproductively monopolizable, and when females choose to mate with males that defend resources [Fashing, 2001].

At night, they abandon isolated outposts so they can concentrate forces in defensible positions.

The Watchung Mountains are arguably the reason that Washington won the war, a place where he was in defensible striking distance of the British headquarters on Manhattan Island, a place with streams strong enough to run mills, with wood for fuel and shelter, with access to ore.

Overwhelmed by Isis's lightening strikes on several fronts, and having suffered a severe defeat in the Sinjar area in western Nineveh, the peshmerga commanders claimed that the latest retreats were a tactical move to regroup and re-establish themselves in defensible positions mostly on the tops of mountains and hills.

The article also discusses the current status and potential future directions for research in defensible space.

In defensible patches, increasing perceived predation risk had the same effect as reducing the economic defensibility of the patch.

I expect that in time, passports will result in more defensible cases of doping.

While NSF and NIH requirements stop short of mandating that institutions develop and provide full coursework to all students in S/T majors – inclusive of medicine – we maintain that such a dictate might in fact be defensible (and laudable).

I find that while residential sites are generally built in more defensible places on the landscape, previously identified "defensive" sites (trench embankment sites) are not necessarily in unusually defensible places.

This would be a terrible thing even if it were in a defensible cause.

Among their mansions they built an armory in 1880, "defensible from all points against mobs".