Sentence examples for tenable only from inspiring English sources

But during the next three decades it grew clear that such theories are tenable only for very limited sets of data.

The idea that we are apart from nature and either don't belong in it or need to make a conscious effort to reintegrate ourselves with it, however, is tenable only once you have made the erroneous assumption that nature is exclusively medium-sized.

There is another type of contract tenable only at research institutes and centers.

But this normative interpretation of maximizing rationality is tenable only if it is at least conceivable that individual agents might sometimes fail to satisfy its requirements—an'ought'that it is not so much as possible to flout is not really an 'ought' at all (Lavin 2004).

Third, increase the number of bursaries tenable only at boarding primary schools in Karamoja.

And when it comes to water policy, Denver is behaving in a way that makes the future seem not only tenable but even bright.

"Will you," we should ask them, "join the voices who have spoken up even in the past few weeks, ranging from Dick Cheney, to Bill Clinton, including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Education Association, and the Episcopal Church?" That's powerful, and demonstrates that it's now time to start thinking of same-sex marriage as an issue that is not only politically tenable, but commonplace.

By addressing the problem at the gene level, the scope of the analyses is not only computationally tenable, but also reduced to a biologically interpretable unit of interest.

Yet they don't tell us how they got to a more tenable place, only that they did get there.

The conclusion is tenable, nonetheless, only with the premise that there is no other systematic distinction in the position conditions between the main and control experiments.

The play progresses to the only tenable position: guilt.