The result will be a much more defensible foundation by which to start.
Meanwhile, Israel grew beyond the partition lines, gained more defensible borders and — by destroying Arab villages — further reduced the Palestinian population.
Whether this feature is objectionable depends on whether there are realistic cases in which (i) intervention-based criteria and criteria based on other considerations come into conflict and (ii) it is clear that the causal judgments supported by these other criteria are more defensible than those supported by interventionist criteria.
I wonder whether the compromises Nessa is making for her son's safety, by giving the contract to the wrong people, are any more defensible than those made by Ephra for her own security?
Likewise, the Bush administration's decision to waterboard Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in the wake of 9/11 was far more defensible than the attempt, by many administration apologists, to insist that waterboarding raised no moral or legal difficulties at all, and should be a routine part of our interrogation repertoire going forward.
What is more, HSBC's spread of businesses and retail deposits, both of which are under scrutiny by Knight Vinke, appear more defensible in a credit squeeze.Knight Vinke will not easily be brushed aside, however.
In 402 AD, during a period of repeated Germanic invasions of Italy, the capital was shifted to Ravenna because nearby marshes made it more defensible, and the Adriatic provided an easy escape path by sea.
A more defensible stance is that the doctrinal essays collect together texts by an unknown number of anonymous Mohist writers, which develop, refine, or extend basic themes or ideas first set forth by Mozi.
By the internal logic of Douthat's piece, homophobia is simply more defensible than racism.
This is a tad more defensible.
