Sentence examples for truly tenable from inspiring English sources
Of course, in the French countryside they are not so unpatriotic, but the old, fondly held belief that you cannot eat badly anywhere in France, however so humble the little hole-in-the-wall establishment may be, is no longer truly tenable.
Is that really tenable, fifty years on?
Erasmus still thought that the best ancient authors pointed the way to the more complete truths of Christian faith; but his earlier confidence that careful indoctrination through study of the moral philosophers would help make a prince, or any pupil, into a truly righteous man was no longer tenable.
Given the folk-hero status of western outlaws, such regulations were barely tenable, and there are hardly any truly unsympathetic depictions of Jesse James — Tyrone Power in Henry King's 1939 "Jesse James" played him as a straight-up matinee idol; Reed Hadley in Fuller's picture made him as august as Abraham Lincoln.
But does any business really think a tweaked version of the status quo is tenable?
Is the distinction tenable?
This is no longer tenable.
His position is not tenable.
But the prospect seems tenable.
It was, he argued, not "morally tenable".
