Sentence examples for politically defensible from inspiring English sources

With an inflation-adjusted tax regime for capital gains, a level of tax equal to ordinary income rates would be fair and politically defensible.

Moreover, while the goal of confronting communism may be politically defensible, the methods that the group pursued elicited heavy complaint.

Since any decision made by them would be announced to the public they argued that it should be politically defensible.

Liquefaction microzonation is a process that involves incorporation of geologic, seismologic and geotechnical concerns into economically, sociologically and politically justifiable and defensible land-use planning for earthquake effects so that engineers can site and design structures that will be less susceptible to damage during earthquakes.

(CROSSTALK) KRISTOL:... you know, and helping hundreds of millions more Chinese and Indians escape poverty over the next 10 years is a lot more politically and morally defensible a policy than totally trying to turn our economy on its head for the sake of dubious scientific propositions... WILLIAMS: Wait a minute.

As long as the economic recovery seemed to be moving towards a self-sustaining trajectory, this was a defensible shift, politically and economically.

As I pointed out a few months ago, when he released his Economic Agenda for America, he's a genuine economic populist, and many of his policy proposals — such as spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure investment, introducing a carbon tax, and replacing private health insurance with Medicare for all — are eminently defensible, if politically unrealistic.

On this view, "a morally defensible and politically viable conception of autonomy for an era of global feminism" must be agnostic about the content of women's choices as long as they do not close off autonomy (205).

While these positions raised eyebrows in some progressive circles, they were both legally defensible and politically smart.

"It is perfectly reasonable, indeed a duty and part of 'submission,' for Christian citizens to express their 'concerns' about whether the law and/or its administration are ethically defensible or politically useful," he said.

"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.