tenable in English

adjective
1
able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
such a simplistic approach is no longer tenable
2
(of an office, position, scholarship, etc.) able to be held or used.
the post is tenable for three years

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "tenable" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tenable", or refer to the context using the word "tenable" in the English Dictionary.

1. His new theory is tenable.

2. None of these arguments are tenable.

3. This argument is simply not tenable.

4. How long is the post tenable for?

5. In a word, our theory is tenable.

6. Captious Mood Makes De mands Not Legally Tenable

7. In some situations, this assumption may not be tenable.

8. Wolfowitz's announcement made that pretence no longer tenable.

9. He's got a scholarship tenable for four years.

10. Overall, at the legal level, this ruling is tenable.

11. This is a tenable approach and will do us much good.

12. For scientific theories to be considered tenable, they must survive refutation.

13. The view that the earth is flat is no longer tenable.

14. According to the rules of logic, only one of those solutions is tenable.

15. In the antidumping investigation, the debate focuses on whether the antidumping is tenable.

16. From the deep structure of transferred epithet, its internal language meaning can be tenable.

17. Now, though so politically convenient a view is no longer tenable, no easy alternative presents itself.

18. The two papers are tenable theories on bending or distorting light to electromagnetically conceal an object.

19. Synonyms for Arguable include tenable, believable, defendable, maintainable, rational, reasonable, viable, assertable, defensible and credible

20. There are many synonyms of Condonable which include Defendable, Excusable, Fit, Logical, Pardonable, Permissible, Plausible, Tenable, Valid, …

21. The conventional wisdom now holds that these measures softened and civilized capitalism and made it tenable.

22. As the war progressed, this position be-came less and less tenable and was eventually discarded.

23. The notion of contrast between pain in a reality and pleasure in a representation is not tenable.

24. The most tenable hypothesis from a given hierarchy is selected by forming successive likelihood ratio chisquares Λ12,...

25. However, such an assumption is simply not tenable, for science and technology do not develop in a social vacuum.

26. The old idea that this type of work was not suitable for women was no longer tenable.

27. Looking at the second proviso, we can see that the position was a cruel one, insincere and hardly tenable.

28. With her developing Agitationist philosophy, and one which I believe makes the pragmatist reading of Wells-Barnett by Patricia Schechter un-tenable

29. Belsey wrote: From this post-Saussurean perspective it is clear that the theory of literature as expressive realism is no longer tenable ....

30. The Gulf of Tonkin high-end art layout work room is and the North Sea art professional technology institute cooperation is tenable.

31. 1 ‘it seems to me Arguable that both courts had jurisdiction’ SYNONYMS tenable , maintainable, assertable, defendable, defensible, supportable, sustainable, able to hold water

32. By creating processes for social, environmental, and economic sustainability, Aleron is devoted to ensuring a tenable future for our businesses, our communities, and our world.

33. Tenable, reasonable, rational, viable, plausible, believable, justifiable, defensible, defendable, maintainable It was Arguable that this was not as grave as it might seem.

34. Semantic paradox is not a tenable proposition, no matter its hypothesis is true or not, from this point of view, it can be called " neutral proposition".

35. Although the hypothesis that the Java subduction zone is Aseismic is no longer tenable, there remains a danger that systematic research into past patterns will not begin until there is another horrendous disaster for which the population will have been poorly prepared.