Sentence examples for it cannot be defended from inspiring English sources

Justice Stevens is convinced that the death penalty has been applied so unfairly that it cannot be defended.

It cannot be defended by brute military force alone, and not just because internal threats tie up so much of that force.

That is a gross dereliction of duty on the part of the Department for Work and Pensions, and it cannot be defended".

Whatever Trump says tomorrow or the next day, the doctrine of deterrence has been officially abandoned: It cannot be defended by a man who does not believe in it.

It cannot be defended by God or Allah or Buddha.

Clearly, the production of a synthesizing argument, as an interpretive process, produces one privileged reading of the evidence, and, as the product of an authorial voice, it cannot be defended as an inherently reproducible process or product.

So, while it will be the case that the use of intuitions as evidence cannot be defended, it will also follow that the reliance on perception, memory and introspection can also not be defended.

If the boffins suggest that those wards cannot be defended economically, it would once again be mostly poor and black residents who would be affected.Why would federal officials announce such lenient rules before the scientific work is finished?

Yes, that peril, risk and hazard can be created by vile speech, the content of which cannot be defended on its merits, but that speech's right to exist must be.

The naturalist account cannot be defended simply as a conceptual truth but it also cannot be rejected, as Moore thought it could be, as obviously confusing one property (the natural property) for another one (the moral property).

But as we saw in effect in section 3.2.3, when we considered a formulation of the evidential argument from evil advanced by William Rowe, it appears that the inductive step in the argument from evil cannot be defended by appealing to instantial generalization.