Sentence examples for tenable in from inspiring English sources

Would that be tenable in a political context?

Perhaps that civilisation is no longer tenable in its present form.

To many analysts, the situation doesn't seem tenable in the long run.

"What isn't tenable in my mind is staying in between," he said, "because then it just invites pressure from everybody".

The commission's line that it cannot determine the merits of a political purpose is not tenable in the light of its new public benefit function.

Further, Justice Ginsburg said, "A rule thus declaring 'prosecutor may hide, defendant must seek,' is not tenable in a system constitutionally bound to accord defendants due process".

Saving the core of the simple picture, pleasure as a relatively unmediated momentary experience, as an ingredient in a tenable view, in this way, however, abandons the obviousness of pleasure's nature, goodness, and explanatory role in motivation that complete introspective transparency was supposed to give.

Grouping these three facets together as a separate factor also resulted in more tenable solutions in the confirmatory factor analyses.

The company is also growing internationally, with installations in 150 countries, and Tenable plans, in part, to use the new money to continue that expansions.

And they want it accepted that to object in conscience to women bishops is a tenable position.In the centre of the debate is a big group who favour women bishops but want the traditionalists treated decently.

Tenability for the downstream region of fire is not the main focus of this research because vehicles can generally drive out of the tunnel at a higher speed than that of the smoke flow, and local damper smoke extraction can help keep a tenable condition in the downstream region beyond the local fire zone, in case there is a congestion in the downstream region of the fire.