Sentence examples for tenable since from inspiring English sources

In many practical situations, this assumption may not be tenable since we are studying only a sample of inbred lines, from a possibly large hypothetical population.

In many practical situations, this assumption may not be tenable since often one studies only a sample of inbred lines from a possibly large (hypothetical) population.

This hypothesis may not be tenable, since a recent study failed to show pro-social behaviour in another cooperatively breeding primate, the cottontop tamarin [6].

The British occupation of Afghanistan, in place since 1839, was no longer tenable.

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.

7) A conclusion in the Results section that '...since SHM in splenic B-1a IgVH initiates later and progresses with age, these findings suggest that peritoneal B-1a in older animals are largely derived from B-1a that have migrated from the spleen when the animals were younger' while a tenable and interesting hypothesis, belongs in the Discussion, since other scenarios remain possible.

Two explanations are tenable and both relate to noise/error in the data, since changes as small as 1% are below the analytical error of even the best methods.

Calls for a return to holism in systems biology are not calls for a return to the holism of the 1930s, since that particular holism is no longer tenable.

That's a tenable position, but it's politically dicey — particularly for Republicans, since the elderly are among their biggest supporters.

But is it tenable?

Is the distinction tenable?