Sentence examples for potentially defensible from inspiring English sources
As a result, the President might be forced to veto new sanctions and ensure that one-third of the House or Senate block an override of the veto -- a highly tenuous but potentially defensible position.
WASHINGTON -- When Mitt Romney told a crowd in Ohio last week that he had read a report saying Jeep was "thinking of moving all production to China," there was at least a potentially defensible explanation.
In fact, all large species of this genus in the Mascarenes are also associated with potentially defensible items, in which large size may be advantageous [ 32].
However, a closer look at the rapidly falling costs of genetic testing, the high prevalence of genetic disease in many countries, the cost savings that could be achieved by effective screening programs, and the acceptability of such programs in many countries, leads us to conclude that such programs are feasible, ethically defensible and potentially cost-effective.
In the context of ongoing global habitat loss, this approach provides a pragmatic, but also potentially biologically meaningful, way of incorporating defensible and quantitative ecological process targets or biodiversity persistence goals into conservation plans.
During this period, Lords were required to defend their castles by means of mercenaries, rather than the vassals of the earlier feudal system, and Simpson suggested that the Lord of Doune designed his tower to be defensible against his own, potentially rebellious, garrison.
But the frightful Sunday came in the wake of mounting medical evidence about the potentially dire neurological consequences of football on its participants, and called forth some troubling questions: Is it morally defensible to watch a sport whose level of violence is demonstrably destructive?
These case studies focused on approaches that could be implemented with existing information, could potentially be conducted at a reasonable cost, were the least likely to introduce bias, and were the most scientifically defensible.
Were our actions defensible?
This reluctance is defensible.
