Sentence examples for less defensible for from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, strong representationalism will be all the less defensible for them.

That's linked to the less defensible desire for retribution against the political forces that abandoned them personified by Hillary and Democrats generally.

It's less defensible if it's for social insurance, no matter how pressing the need.

Healy and Ramanna (2013) NA Corrupt practice is less defensible in developing countries for multinationals in overseas.

Less defensible, however, is the resulting windfall for the plaintiff and the loss of important procedural safeguards for the defendant in a situation in which "punishment" is meted out by unpredictable and unguided juries.

But if the minority votes strictly on party lines the rule cannot work this way and becomes something less defensible in a democracy: a way for the minority to thwart the majority's wishes.And that is what nearly happened in the health debate.

"While today's statement is more explicit than the secretary general has made before, it has even greater resonance since in the current environment the idea of exempting people from the rule of law because of their nationality is obviously less defensible than ever," said Richard Dicker, director for international justice at Human Rights Watch.

The Apache crews make a series of bad judgments — some of them understandable, like mistaking the photographer's long lens as it pokes around the corner of a building for an RPG; others much less defensible, like firing repeatedly at a van that has stopped to pick up a wounded man — but they aren't shooting indiscriminately like in a free-fire zone.

Focusing on privacy as control over information about oneself, Posner argues that concealment or selective disclosure of information is usually to mislead or manipulate others, or for private economic gain, and thus protection of individual privacy is less defensible than others have thought because it does not maximize wealth.

This is less defensible.

But the double standard looks steadily less defensible today.