(1) The only sensible and morally defensible route is to promote greater understanding and tolerance, and to educate the population on immigration issues.

(2) How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy?

(3) Not every decision or action may be defensible , warranting both guidelines and the scrutiny the review intended.

(4) They have to come up with reasonable and defensible public policies that can be explained in terms of the public interest.

(5) This is a substantially weaker thesis, and I shall assume for purposes of argument that it is defensible .

(6) Tools exist that can synthesise such data to scientific standards and provide logical and defensible conclusions about impacts on a system, a population, and society.

(7) The Revolution was an explosion of popular violence, understandable if scarcely defensible resentment.

(8) But are the censors' actions justified or defensible ?

(9) This interpretation is perfectly understandable and defensible from a moral and emotional standpoint.

(10) I'm not sure how much of this is reasonable, defensible , arguable.

(11) Self regulation is not magic: it requires substantive, defensible , and valid processes.

(12) The merger was a rationally defensible idea which failed because it involved too high a cultural price.

(13) The federal government almost always has defensible reasons for their actions.

(14) Following the war, UN resolution 242 recognized the nation's right to defensible borders, to be set in negotiations.

(15) It's hard to knock this decision in political terms, and it has a defensible legal rationale.

(16) The principles of this were defensible space, community interaction, natural surveillance, estate design and target hardening.

(17) I believe people today can be attracted to a belief system that is rational and defensible .

(18) But I do think Judge Cedarbaum was very clear in her reasoning, very logical and very defensible .

(19) The tactic of climbing over the side of the mountain, rather than maintaining a defensible position, was not militarily sound.

(20) That argument should be based on five simple and defensible propositions.