Sentence examples for tenable idea from inspiring English sources

That is a tenable idea (the al-Qaeda people picked up in Afghanistan are not ordinary prisoners-of-war), but untested in court.

It is, however, a more tenable idea if that connection is still partly intact.To test that idea out, a clinical trial is planned at UCLA to test the technique for rehabilitating patients whose spinal cords are incompletely severed.

That doesn't seem like a tenable idea for many budget-minded schools.

If retiring at an older age is prospectively beneficial to elderly persons' well-being, retaining older individuals in the labor force may appear a desirable and tenable idea.

When he first got back from Hill 192, he said, he had imagined that it might have been his peculiar misfortune to draw a patrol made up of psychopaths, but now each time a new G.I. rallied to the patrol's defense that idea seemed less tenable.

As Raz himself notes, however (especially in Raz 1996b), this 'straddling the divide' approach may in fact seem to undermine the very ideas that there is a tenable distinction between legal reasoning in senses (a) and (b), and that there are gaps in the law.

"Yes," he says, "from a vantage point like this, the idea of society is just about tenable".

One of the guiding principles for instructional design should be the idea that it is no longer tenable to assume that students have been taught how to effectively study and learn prior to their matriculation into a college or university.

This argument seems to be valid, and platonists claim that the best and only tenable explanation of this fact involves a commitment to the idea that the 'that'-clause in this argument, i.e., 'that snow is white', is a singular term.

But if we accept this, then the idea of "me" as commonly conceived is no longer tenable.

"The idea that markets inevitably corrupt," Healy writes, "is not tenable precisely because they are embedded within social relations, cultural categories and institutional routines".