Sentence examples for more defensible as from inspiring English sources

Is pet insurance any more defensible as a money saver?

Instead I offer another objective, one which is to be preferred both because it is more attainable and because it is morally more defensible than equality, either as an ideal or as an operative principle.

Opt-in consent may be seen as more defensible ethically and legally than opt-out consent as it relies on a participant actively confirming that they have consented (often by ticking or initialling a box and signing a form) rather than solely omitting to withdraw consent.

Whether the very brief explanations of violation units in the post-Rapoport decisions would be viewed as more defensible in explaining how administrative law judges determined the number of units of violation is not clear.

Chinese civilian leaders have expressed growing puzzlement and anger about the North's behavior, these officials said, while military officials tend to see the North's moves as more defensible given the threat North Korea perceives from the United States.

Whether one regards the verdicts about these cases reached by causal process accounts or by interventionist accounts as more defensible, the very fact that the accounts lead to inconsistent judgments shows that interventionist approaches are not trivial or vacuous, despite their "circular", non-reductive character.

Some work was performed on Bunker Hill, but Breed's Hill was closer to Boston and viewed as being more defensible.

Whereas the earlier account interpreted several of the arguments in the text as employing parallelization to support Mohist views, it is probably more defensible to take them to be rejecting parallelization as a basis for attacking those views.

The primary message from our empirical exercise is that the use of a "cognitive ability measure" as an error-free independent variable in a wage regression can lead to quite different inferences than a more defensible approach (MESE) that treats cognitive ability as a latent construct.

They have moved inexorably from less defensible advantages such as low wage costs to more defensible advantages like global brands.

But even these efforts could not restore peace and order in Switzerland, and numerous settlements were abandoned as their inhabitants fled to more defensible places or to the South.