121 examples of tenable in sentences

There is much plausibility doubtless in this position, but, independently of the fact that no one advocates independence in these Colonies except as a means to the end, annexation, is it really tenable?

He was fully conscious, however, of the difficult nature of the position, and that it was only tenable on condition of being penetrated, or possessed, as he said, with the idea of its tenability.

Thus, at the very outset, they took a ground which was for ever tenable.

It is no more seriously tenable than the thought that little Johnny there should remain for ever at the age of ten.

it must go no further, it will go no further; don't tell a soul; tell it not in Gath, nobody the wiser; alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Lat.]; let it be tenable in your silence still [Hamlet].

snug, seaworthy; weatherproof, waterproof, fireproof. defensible, tenable, proof against, invulnerable; unassailable, unattackable, impenetrable; impregnable, imperdible^; inexpugnable; Achillean^. safe and sound &c (preserved) 670; scathless &c (perfect) 650; unhazarded^; not dangerous &c 665.

It has sometimes occurred to me when I have been taking a slice of excellent ham that, from a too tenable point of view, I was breakfasting on a small squealing black pig which, more than half a century ago, was the unwilling representative of spiritual advantages not otherwise acknowledged by the grudging farmer or dairyman who parted with him.

Here was a powerful citadel tenable against all odds, a stronghold where a mere handful of defenders could prevent a great army from taking the place by assault.

The theory that we have in the second Gospel one of the primitive Synoptic documents is not tenable.

Here we have a much more tenable and probable hypothesis.

Too much stress, however, must not be laid upon this, because the Catholic writers were certainly apt to assume that their own view was the only one tenable.

No third hypothesis is tenable.

That Irenaeus is here merely giving the 'exegesis of his own day,' as the author of 'Supernatural Religion' suggests [Endnote 297:2], is not for a moment tenable.

First, try a little to defend it upon its own merits; if that is not tenable, throw out general terrorsthe House of Bourbon is unitedwho knows the consequence of a war?

Fischer's further interpretation of the attributes of God as his "powers" is tenable, so long as by causa and potentia we understand nothing more than the irresistible, but non-kinetic, force with which an original truth establishes or effects those which follow from it.

This appears to be the only tenable reason that has been assigned for the change of the family name from Calcraft to Schoolcraft.

Eventually, the works went on, until, when the besieging army arrived, they were tenable.

Even the theory that the Chinese emperor was the Son of Heaven and enthroned at the centre of the world was no longer tenable.

There is a certain path along which Western nations have proceeded in recent times; and it is tenable that Russia has not proceeded so far as the others: that she has less of the special modern system in science, commerce, machinery, travel or political constitution.

20.In respect to the orthography of words ending in able or ible, it is sometimes difficult to determine which of these endings ought to be preferred; as whether we ought to write tenable or tenible, reversable or reversible, addable or addible.

The position would not be tenable, even if all our pronouns were admitted to be nouns, or "substantives;" and, if these two parts of speech are to be distinguished, the consequence must be, that Murray supposes a countless number of unnecessary and absurd ellipses.

RULE IX.FINAL E. "Adjectives ending in able signify capacity; as, comfortable, tenable, improvable.

Another debatein this very quarrelsome spring of 1887was a written one in the National Reformer between the Rev. G.F. Handel Rowe and myself on the proposition, "Is Atheism logically tenable, and is there a satisfactory Atheistic System for the guidance of Human Conduct."

That this scheme of Nature was not accurate or well founded is perfectly tenable, but surely it is not tenable that it was not optimistic.

That this scheme of Nature was not accurate or well founded is perfectly tenable, but surely it is not tenable that it was not optimistic.

121 examples of  tenable  in sentences