Sentence examples for into defensible from inspiring English sources

It helps "to change vague thoughts, expectations, intuitons, into defensible arguments," he added.

WHILE Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, was in London and Washington this week to drum up support for his struggling government of national unity, some of his officials said privately that the country's own capital was getting closer to being physically divided up into defensible sectarian zones.

How are ideals of democracy best incorporated into defensible global institutional arrangements?

The object of the program was to concentrate rural populations into more defensible positions where they could be more easily protected and segregated from the Viet Cong.

William J. Fetterman, ignored warnings that the Sioux often used apparently injured riders as decoys to draw their enemies into poorly defensible locations.

Wherever possible, it tries, instead, to incorporate them into a defensible conception of human nature that leaves the work of the sciences standing, though not necessarily within the kind of ontological framework that scientists may think is required.

After the 1996 bombing of a housing complex in Saudi Arabia, in which 19 airmen were killed, American troops in Dhahran were moved out of urban compounds into more defensible desert bases.

The better tradition allows Themistocles an archonship in 493, during which he started the walls of the Piraeus, turning it into a defensible harbour, and so first "dared to say that the Athenians must make the sea their domain" (as Thucydides puts it with forgivable exaggeration).

From Europa Point, which pushes into the sea on the south side, to the highest point of the Rock, there is not a single point that has not been put into a defensible condition... Proceeding towards Europa Point, at the entrance of the town, fortifications, magazines, barracks, and batteries are placed wherever the nature of the surface would permit".

The model explains why sub-optimal investment in defensible space is likely and provides insights into the likely effectiveness of programs designed to encourage households to increase their defensible space.

In the network-constitutive approach, social work arises out of a set of social "boundary groups" capable of assembly into such a defensible turf (Abbott 1995).