Sentence examples for may be defensible from inspiring English sources

All of which may be defensible in terms of FoI law.

This may be defensible, given the play's abstractions and universal reach, but it really does not work.

This may be defensible, since it trims a hidden subsidy to Italian business (in the form of cheap financing).

Offering a continuation of those actions and plans, while individually some may be defensible, is not really an offer of "change".

While mushroom foraging for personal use may be defensible (Letters, 30 July), large-scale and indiscriminate picking of wild fungi for commercial exploitation will eventually have a major effect on the survival of species in the wild.

A farm subsidy, a tariff, a targeted tax incentive, a restrictive approach to immigration: these may be defensible, he thought, not on narrowly economic grounds but as expressions of a country's determination to preserve its own ways of life, and as evidence of the fundamental principle that the citizenry has the right to ignore economic experts, especially when their track records are dubious.

This is considerably more controversial than denying the very strong link between motivation and moral judgement presupposed by Mackie's objection, but may nonetheless be defensible.

Also if ngmoco or one of the other big publishers enables this "feature" of paying reviewers, the model may not be defensible.

For example, our regnant theories of the physician-patient relationship are largely dominated by the value of autonomy and the principle of respect for individual choice, but as Alan Wertheimer has shown, our standard approach to research ethics remains paternalistic in some ways that may not be defensible (forthcoming).

To be sure, in rapidly changing fields like biology and physics, the new editions may be academically defensible.

As for Hansen, his use of qualifiers like "virtually" and "in the US" means that his statement may be factually defensible, but it is intellectually dishonest because it implies an absence of independent research.