Sentence examples for is defensible on from inspiring English sources

Evo Morales' decision to nationalise Bolivia's oil and gas industry may be a threat to private property and an economic error - it is probably unwise to nationalise an industry when the principal investor, in this case Brazil, is also the nation's main customer - but the Bolivian leader is pursuing a vision of the national interest that is defensible on both constitutional and democratic grounds.

Hawthorne (2005) raises the possibility that, in the course of grasping that p entails q, S will cease to know p. He also notes that SP1 is defensible on the (deviant) assumption that a thought, p, is equivalent to another, q, if p and q hold in all of the same possible worlds.

The Platonic version of the view has struck many as both too metaphysically ornate to be defensible, on one hand, and as not fitting very well with a conception of ethics grounded in nature, on the other.

Even if it were, they said, it would be defensible on any number of fronts, like security provisions in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

All of these moves are defensible on their own terms, but when put together they paint a picture of a team that has taken a decisive step backwards.

Ike may have been politically naïve, but his April 1945 decision to halt his troops on the Elbe rather than race the Russians to Berlin, Beevor plausibly suggests, was defensible on pragmatic grounds.

Although the changes are defensible on a theoretical basis (and although it's much better to disclose the changes than not to do so), it's awfully late in the game to be doing that, and makes it harder to compare recent Gallup results to past ones.

While harsh, the punishment is defensible, it is the impact on Liverpool that seems disproportionate.

Kristol said Perry's position on immigration is defensible, but the problem was that "he didn't defend it" during the debate.

Kershaw's focus on these areas is defensible but not entirely convincing.

This execution is defensible.