We would be back to the vignettes of Americans complaining about private insurers doing their actuarially sound and defensible thing, which can, however, be so devastating on American families.
The paper, which is more than fifty pages long (pdf), is much like Newt: skewed and self-important, its danger mitigated only by its lack of discipline, and seemingly constructed in the belief that anything will sound "intellectually defensible" if you add enough quotes from the Federalist Papers.
On the other hand, it would be sound and defensible policy to have the local police examine at the workplace the identity papers of all employees to ascertain whether they are legally allowed to work and, most important, ascertain if employers had intentionally violated current U.S. laws requiring employers to check the immigration status of hired workers.
Some aspects of the pay gap may be defensible - though it is all too easy to sound defensive as you explain them.
It also helps conciliating conflicting observations due to human expertise, and last but not least, it can provide decision-makers with the ability to make well-informed decisions that are technically sound and legally defensible.
To ensure sound and scientifically defensible results, filtration of aqueous samples should be avoided if an analysis of the filtrate is not part of the analysis strategy; this is especially important when targeting hydrophobic compounds.
Defensible deletion sounds good in theory, but the question becomes: how do we know what to delete?
Just accept that I believe my views to be as doctrinally sound and as bibically defensible as yours.
"All I can repeat is evidence we gave last week... that the government has advice to hand that suggests that we are on legally sound ground, it's defensible, and it's a common practice - common enough almost to be invariably the case - that legal opinions are not made public by way of submission to committees".
The defensible borders issue certainly sounds more sympathetic than the "we want to keep as much land as possible" issue, but unlike desire to grab land it doesn't make any kind of sense.
But essentially what that means to us is that they have sound business models that can be defensible and sustained over time and hopefully even improve.
