Sentence examples for tenable decision from inspiring English sources

Given these facts, the White House made the common sense (and legally tenable) decision to try Tsarnaev in criminal court as a civilian.

"Because her own decisions are not tenable," Sam said.

Three days later, on January 24th, Nevada's Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto, said that she would reconsider her defense of the ban, noting that the circuit-court decision had rendered Nevada's argument "no longer tenable".

It is not tenable to ask local leaders to deliver the impossible, make unpopular local decisions as quietly as possible and then carry the can when the decisions become public.

But is it tenable?

Is the distinction tenable?

This is no longer tenable.

His position is not tenable.

But the prospect seems tenable.

Still, Mr. Tabler said the administration's decision to take this step was a welcome sign that its policy of steering clear of any military involvement in the conflict was no longer tenable.

Is that really tenable, fifty years on?