Sentence examples for tenable notion from inspiring English sources

A more tenable notion is to rotate the Games among a handful of Olympic cities around the world.

Antimonopsychia rejected the notion, usually attributed to the Arabic commentator on Aristotle know to the Latin West as Averroes (Ibn-Rushd), that the only tenable notion of the soul in Aristotle was not a personal soul, but a single general soul of humanity.

However, the argument that women were mentally, physically, or emotionally unfit for scientific work, a notion that had persisted since ancient times, was no longer tenable.

But it is a less and less tenable opinion.

The very question of whether that notion is tenable, whether there's anything reasonable about religious belief, sends the scene spinning into exhilarating disputations (including one that's capped by the rabbi saying, of the three Christian leaders, "These men are screwballs").

This sums up Williams' case for thinking that the wider notion of praise and blame is tenable in a way that the narrower notion is not because of its dependence on a questionably "pure" account of the voluntary (1985: 194; cp. MSH Essays 1 3).

Others have discussed whether the notion of a distorted visual space remains tenable in the face of increasing psychophysical evidence against the hypothesis (Glennerster et al. 1996; Koenderink et al. 2002; Smeets et al. 2002; Cuijpers et al. 2003; Svarverud et al. 2010).

That belief is no longer tenable.

Suddenly, the notion of bidding to outspend Labour was no longer tenable.

The question is whether such measurable success is tenable in the postseason, when all bets are off and the notion of clutch is redefined.

After detailed consideration, former deputy president of the Supreme Court Lord Hope said in 2010 that the "simple notion" of such a column was "plainly no longer tenable".