defensible in English
a morally defensible penal system
a fort with a defensible yard at its feet
Use "defensible" in a sentence
1. High petrol taxes are defensible on ecological grounds.
2. No, let's just I.D. every defensible position within this area.
3. Even 50 different speed limits, bank holidays, fireworks laws are defensible.
4. Is regulation really defensible, or should the practice be left unfettered from regulatory controls?
5. Synonyms for Arguable include tenable, believable, defendable, maintainable, rational, reasonable, viable, assertable, defensible and credible
6. To be meaningful, the investigation should be thorough, timely, unbiased well - documented,(sentencedict .com) and scientifically defensible.
7. Claimer combines its streamlined platform with expert R&D advisors to ensure your claim is maximised and defensible
8. Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River, was more defensible than Henry, and Navy assaults on the fort were ineffective.
9. 1 ‘it seems to me Arguable that both courts had jurisdiction’ SYNONYMS tenable , maintainable, assertable, defendable, defensible, supportable, sustainable, able to hold water
10. The Cc&Rs could restrict the height of your fence, require a defensible space for fire protection, or prohibit political signs, among other things.
11. Tenable, reasonable, rational, viable, plausible, believable, justifiable, defensible, defendable, maintainable It was Arguable that this was not as grave as it might seem.
12. Given the heterogeneity of the Canadian ISP industry, explicit game theory modelling was judged to be too much of an abstraction to yield defensible insights.
13. It has, to its credit, inspired good writing on the difference between defensible provocation and outright moral Affrontery, and whether Zahler nimbly (or not) toes the line between them
14. The latter way of understanding the notion yields both a more defensible version of Geach's arguments that ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are Attributive and a more satisfactory explanation of attributivity.
15. 2 9 7) has truly observed of the execution of Charles I., that it was an act of war, and was just as defensible or just as Assailable, and on the same grounds, as the war itself
16. Mass noun 1 The action of abridging a text. ‘It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of Abridgement’, but Abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.’
17. The Christians retreated into what may be called Abyssinia, an easily defensible, socially cohesive unit that included mostly Christian, Semitic-speaking peoples in a territory comprising most of Eritrea, Tigray, and Gonder and parts of Gojam, Shewa, and Welo.
18. The mail survey elicited hypothetical, open-ended annual household willingness to pay (WTP) values simultaneously for special wildfire insurance, private Averting activities (e.g., retrofitting rooftops, creating defensible space), and two types of public Averting activities (e.g., thinning and prescribed burning on neighborhood and nearby
19. In making my argument with Coyne, I accept the label " Accommodationist," a catch-all term -- intended to be derogatory -- for people who believe there is intellectually defensible space in between the opposing positions represented by Coyne and Mohler.
20. Other articles where Abyssinia is discussed: eastern Africa: Abyssinia: The Christians retreated into what may be called Abyssinia, an easily defensible, socially cohesive unit that included mostly Christian, Semitic-speaking peoples in a territory comprising most of Eritrea, Tigray, and Gonder and parts of Gojam, Shewa, and Welo
21. Apologetic (adj.) 1640s, "vindicatory, containing a defense," from French apologétique, from Latin Apologeticus, from Greek apologetikos "defensible," from apologeisthai "speak in one's defense," from apologos "an account, story," from apo "away from, off" (see apo-) + logos "speech," from PIE root *leg-(1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')."