Sentence examples for tenable on from inspiring English sources

The reason-statement-based approach to the distinction is tenable on certain ontological views about reasons but seems useless on a wide variety of other plausible ontological views about reasons.

These delays gave the Badajoz garrison time to work on the fortifications, taking them from a state of serious disrepair on 25 March to being tenable on 3 April.

[So Robb and his deeds are present and important, but] a story that is being told about a person is words coming out of somebody's mouth for three, four, five minutes in a way that's just not tenable on television.

It is neither enough to regulate urging compliance in a typical soft law form, nor is it tenable to rely on the possibility that desirable hard law approaches by states might be aided by an international legal initiative that sets the human rights responsibilities of corporations upon which all states (the weak and the strong) can draw or be measured against in their own separate efforts.

Orwell wrote in an essay on Dickens that 2 positions are tenable: "The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system?

Current presumptions of a single MOA for ClO4− on the HPT axis do not appear tenable based on these results.

In principle, the assumption is tenable, based on the observation that the ACh volley output and the overall EPSC amplitude and properties remain reasonably constant over time.

Therefore, under TNF stimulus, our estimated edge from IL6 to IL8 is biologically tenable based on published experimental results.

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.

The former hold that only individual agents or natural persons can be properly held responsible, while the latter hold that some collectives do count as subjects of responsibility (cf. Mathiesen 2006; Pettit 2007b; Hindriks 2009); depending on context and group size, there may be a number of tenable intermediate positions on this spectrum.

"The status quo is not tenable for much longer," said Brenda Pearson, an expert on Balkan affairs with the Washington-based Public International Law and Policy Group.