After more than one failure to obtain a college fellowship, he was in December 1870 elected to one at Merton College Oxford, tenable for life, with no teaching duties, and terminable only on marriage.
It may be that like Judd Apatow's comedy Knocked Up, Juno will be criticised for neglecting to endorse abortion, or to reflect that this is the option that is the most tenable in real life.
Well, at least if they're still here, are they killer diseases or, like allergies, asthma, diabetes, glaucoma and HIV, are they chronic conditions that enable us to not die right away but perhaps enjoy a somewhat compromised-yet-tenable quality of life?
But earlier this year, she says she started to realize that if she ever wanted to settle down -- get married, have kids -- her double life wasn't tenable.
It enables fast-moving animals to exploit fluctuating resources and to settle in areas where life would not be tenable for animals incapable of rapid travel.
That may become less tenable, though, as Ms. Swift's personal life makes its way into the tabloids, as it lately has in regards to her never-confirmed romance with Joe Jonas, the would-be rake of the Jonas Brothers.
Some "experts" from abroad assure us that life will become much more tenable when we revert to the drachma.
One had only to glimpse the satire to know the real-life version was no longer tenable.
At the time I thought this was the height of pointlessness, not knowing that imbibing narcs to make humanity seem more tenable would become a great fixture in my life.
By linking extant conservation areas as well as new ones using a system of corridors of protected land, Wilson argued that a tenable system for human coexistence with the rest of life on Earth could be created.
