Sentence examples for to be defendable from inspiring English sources

Remember that these numbers don't have to be right, they only have to be defendable, and "in the right ballpark".

For long-term social aggregations home sites need to be defendable and within foraging distance of a reliable food source [10].

"There are some areas that just won't be defendable; it will be hard to adapt because the water will come from everywhere," Lowe said.

Theoretically, this might be defendable, but in practice (with large profits at stake) it proved far too easy to abuse.

This suggests that for screening for violence to be ethically defendable, these minimal resources have to be secured.

The REM assumption that trials included in a meta-analysis are a random sample from a large population of trials would seem to be less defendable in the context of systematic reviews, which, by definition, aim at the inclusion of all published and unpublished trials considered as the population from which this assumption is being inferred (Villar et al, 2001).

Because the model is tied to datasets, the findings are defendable and the graphic interface facilitates reporting to the public.

"They're shrinking the business to a size that's defendable, and growing off that lower base".

But there are ways of estimating these numbers that are defendable to people reading the business plan.

We therefore argue that it is defendable to use MIC values as a first approximation of antibiotic effects and at the same time stress the need for verification of possible effects in experimental studies.

And they have to "truly be building something different, that's defendable, that's really thought through — something that a big company couldn't just pour person-years into and get a result from in six months".