Sentence examples for tenable reason for from inspiring English sources

Although Parke Davis related to alleged price-fixing, I have been unable to discern any tenable reason for differentiating it from a case involving, as here, alleged boycotting.

The State suggests no tenable reason for deferring the trial in the face of petitioner's diligent and repeated efforts by motions in the state court in 1962, 1963, and 1966 to secure a prompt trial.

It may sound fanciful to most Democrats, but thus far it's proven to be a pretty tenable position politically, and there's really no pressing reason for Republicans to abandon it.

But whatever is the reason for the overly simplistic interpretation of the Tinbergen separation principle, it is no longer tenable going forward.

The reason for this is not obvious but the belief by some people that tablet formulations are more efficacious than syrups may be tenable here.

"We already know that the goal of 3% isn't tenable for a very basic reason: there isn't enough basic growth to get there," he said.

But there are reasons for thinking that neither the physicalist nor the conceptualist approach is tenable and that the only plausible way to interpret linguistic theory is as being about sentence types, which of course, are abstract objects (proponents of the platonistic view include Katz (1981), Soames (1985), and Langendoen and Postal (1985)).

That is, platonists think we have to believe in abstract objects, because (a) there are good reasons for thinking that things like numbers and universals exist, and (b) the only tenable view of these things is that they are abstract objects.

But gradually this position has begun to look less tenable, for a whole host of reasons.

"This isn't a tenable position for you to take, in my view," Mr. Carnes wrote.

He added, "This is not a tenable policy for China or for the world economy".