Sentence examples for tenable excuse from inspiring English sources

For the outside world, Chinese officials this year offer a tenable excuse: the protests, they say, threatened China's stability.

China's main excuse for holding down the yuan to support battered exporters is no longer tenable in light of the rebound in exports.

The ostensible excuse that it is unable to do so looks less tenable now it has some military successes against the Taliban.

But is it tenable?

Is the distinction tenable?

This is no longer tenable.

His position is not tenable.

But the prospect seems tenable.

It was, he argued, not "morally tenable".

Is that really tenable, fifty years on?

This is not a tenable future.