defensibility

Examples

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• Despite public outcry that this was too much land for conservation, the objectives remained intact because of the defensibility of the process, independent of perceived feasibility.

  Academic text (2005)

• And, of course, if it does not survive the ethical defensibility tests, it must be rejected on basic moral grounds.

  Academic text (1999)

• We chose our rental for the ease of defensibility.

  Blog text (9)

• I discuss three sets of considerations that form the basis of a defensibility screen that all adequate nationalisms must pass.

  Academic text (1999)

• It may afford significant legal protection from the perspective of greater perceived face validity and greater defensibility.

  Academic text (1995)

• Kinsey and Wheatley (1984) investigated the effects of an environmental studies course on the defensibility level of undergraduate students' value judgment toward environmental issues.

  Academic text (1995)

• Against (T3), I argue that what survives the defensibility screens for nationalism is, arguably, not much like nationalism at all.

  Academic text (1999)

• Perhaps, then, if the defensibility of your nationalism hangs on your making efforts to ensure all other non-members' well-being is being taken care of, there might be no more than a difference of emphasis between (justified) liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism.

  Academic text (1999)

• In a debate about climate change policies, the defensibility of our approach was crucial to convince the audience.

• The lawyer emphasized the defensibility of the new regulations to counter the critics' arguments.

Antonyms

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indefensibility

9.0

Impossible to excuse or protect from criticism

How Defensible

unassailability

9.8

soundness

1 4.6

justifiability

7.6

defensibility

7.1

questionability

7.5

untenability

9.1

Surface Forms

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Etymology