"You need a situation that is defensible," says Chris Thomas, an ecologist at the University of York.
If you plan to license your device, then at a minimum you need a stong patent – one that is defensible in a court of law.
Even so, we are all going to need a new set of consistent and defensible principles on when and how to intervene in the affairs of other nations.
In so doing we recognize not only the need for a defensible concept of death, because the current use of WBD rests on the faulty premises that a functioning brain is required for integrative life and that any functions that are not regulated by the brain are necessarily unintegrated, but also the need for clinical confidence.
Israel needs a unified Jerusalem and defensible borders far more than its needs more foreign money.
But as it became clear that the Soviet Union would need strong, defensible borders, Lenin realized the danger that nationalism posed.
She has for a few decades needed a "platform," or an issue she advocates for as she "runs" for the title of Miss America, and now she must have a defensible opinion on anything and everything.
But don't be outrageous in your claims: The financials need to be defensible, because the first thing the investor will do is pick them apart, in order to lower the valuation, and get a "better deal".
An automotive repair company that can anticipate, meet, and even exceed customer's needs can build a defensible position within the market place and acquire market share at the expense of other rivals.
Another way to say this is as follows: Hortonworks and Cloudera can spend lots of investor's money promoting adoption of their open source platform, but until they create a product the fits enterprise needs and that has a defensible advantage they will not create a successful business.
