Sentence examples for tenable concept from inspiring English sources

Neither exclusively ritzy nor seriously downtrodden, Murray Hill is the center of betwixt and between, if that's a tenable concept.

But, after investigating the literature in detail while working on a textbook about ants, he concluded that inclusive fitness was no longer a tenable concept.

He had an easy, tenable concept, combining a quartet with the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a brass-band octet he's been working with a little; it did exactly what street brass bands are good at, making a powerful arrangement of whatever music is put in front of it.

In fact, many students of the problem question that eradication of poliomyelitis infection with inactivated vaccine is a scientifically tenable concept". One of the main concerns was that the Salk vaccine did not prevent infection in the gut and thus did not break the chain of transmission.

However, it is possible to construct a tenable working hypothesis.

Binding these ISO/IEC 11179 semantic components to concepts in the NCI Thesaurus endows a tenable layer of semantics to the already rich structure of caDSR metadata by virtue of the ontologic description (NCI Thesaurus) and mappings to synonyms in over 50 other biomedical terminologies (NCI Metathesaurus) associated with each concept.

The concept that genes are passive code is no longer tenable.

We describe the concept of a multiple integrated use of geothermal energy, including the tenable benefits that can be obtained from applying this concept, such as a longer reservoir lifespan, a lower specific environmental impact, and greater marketing flexibility and profitability.

In common with innovation theorists, they recognise that the concept of a self-contained national innovation system is no longer tenable either empirically or as a policy objective.

Partly in response to the work of scholars in the social studies of science, partly in response to the changing role of scientific inquiry through the 20th and into the 21st centuries, philosophers have sought ways to either accommodate the (tenable) results of the sociologists and cultural historians or to modify traditional epistemological concepts used in the analysis of scientific knowledge.

Although the concept of a value-free, neutral administration is regarded by many as no longer tenable, no fully satisfactory substitute has been offered.