Sentence examples for tenable as from inspiring English sources

It is a convenient view or fiction, arising in the first place out of ignorance, and only tenable as long as further observation is limited or wilfully ignored.

"Fischer is no longer tenable as Germany's representative abroad".

I STUCK to my story, un tenable as it was.

"It doesn't seem tenable as we go into a vastly different configuration," Dr. Pillemer acknowledged.

The Fed's chairman called it "increasingly less tenable" as foreign investors would eventually lose enthusiasm for financing the deficit.

But that option looked less and less tenable as the security minister and top military generals publicly opposed a state of emergency.

That may become less tenable, though, as Ms. Swift's personal life makes its way into the tabloids, as it lately has in regards to her never-confirmed romance with Joe Jonas, the would-be rake of the Jonas Brothers.

The government has offered no tenable theory as to how retrospective extension can promote the useful arts.

"Even worse, if you put textbook debt in larger context with student debt, the affordability of college is becoming less and less tenable, and, as a result, the American dream is becoming more difficult for the next generation to attain".

While several approaches to the first-stage dimension reduction are tenable, such as hierarchical or K-means clustering (Hartigan, 1975), here we apply the simple deterministic approach of assigning individuals with identical multi-locus genotypes to the same genotype group, as described by Foulkes et al. (2004).

Other friends and colleagues say Mr. Bruno has moved to the center because the more conservative positions are no longer tenable in a state as liberal as New York.