Sentence examples for lack of defensible from inspiring English sources

The trouble about Poland is its almost absolute lack of defensible frontiers.

The lack of defensible methods for quantifying cost estimate uncertainty over the whole product life cycle of aerospace innovations such as propulsion systems or airframes poses a significant challenge to the creation of accurate and defensible cost estimates.

Worse still, there was minimal documentation so a fail, based on several "borderlines" and some "passes", was not really possible because of the lack of defensible evidence.

Tough choices are often required, but what marks this move out as nasty is the lack of any defensible principle.

The lack of a defensible resource allocation plan could lead to costly and contentious conservation strategies that do not protect biodiversity, impeding additional global funding to one of the world's most biodiverse and threatened regions.

These theories have failed from the lack of a defensible account of the nature of aesthetic experience (Carroll 1999).

The lack of "articulated and defensible criteria for what constitutes appropriate science" could lead the government to impose "onerous and ineffective" rules, warned physicist Parnell Albright, who has been examining the issue for the White House offices of Homeland Security and Science and Technology Policy.

Many houses are set back no more than 2m (6½ feet) from the street; in the Georgian-style terraces, it is possible to walk along the pavement tapping on windows, just as in London's West End.The lack of what planners refer to as "defensible space" is not just a way of pleasing government officials.

The "Dogs" become alienated from themselves to the extent that they justify their lack of integrity as a "necessary and defensible" position in "a cutthroat world with no room for empathy or moral principle" wrote Detmer.

Brian Hilferty, described a scenario that had the enemy surrounded in ever-shrinking patches of defensible terrain.

Anger towards some of the blunter types of "defensible architecture" is growing.