Sentence examples for maintaining a tenable from inspiring English sources

Fire engineering design requires maintaining a tenable condition for a period of time to allow occupants to evacuate to safety.

The idea of individual coaches stoking personal resentments as a way of motivating their athlete is rather less tenable when everyone reports to the same team director; and sportspeople downplay any rumoured rifts to maintain a media-friendly image.

Advocates of gender equality in family caregiving maintain that such policies are necessary to make parity in parenting a tenable proposition.

This is not a tenable future.

This is not a tenable arrangement for a commercial power station.

"This isn't a tenable position for you to take, in my view," Mr. Carnes wrote.

But, he says, acceptance by society of atheism as a tenable position is growing.

He added, "This is not a tenable policy for China or for the world economy".

But he still had a tenable position until he played 21... f5; 21... g6 would have been better.

The first hint I had that this was no longer a tenable pose -- and would not be a tenable pose for me -- came from a man I had never met called Morris Bart.

But they should also help us find a tenable, long-term solution for the detainees remaining there.