Sentence examples for may not be defensible from inspiring English sources

C The paper contains an argument about the relationship between social factors and public school quality, but the argument may not be defensible using the evidence available.

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).

"This may not be intellectually defensible, but it's politically predictable," said Joe Bob Perkins, executive vice president for wholesale businesses at Reliant Energy, a power generation and trading company in Houston.

Although this approach addresses the concern of sampling variability, it is questionable whether it could be considered in future studies using biopsy as the gold standard, as it may not be ethically defensible.

However, in balancing the benefits and potential problems in release of data it is necessary to bear in mind that the most easily defensible interests may not be the most important from a societal viewpoint.

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

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

That conventional thinking may be defensible against an average quarterback.

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