Word Finder - tenable

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(of a theory, argument, etc.) capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded

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Back in the 1800s, many did not consider Darwin's theory of evolution to be tenable at all.

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Capable of being defended against assault or attack; defensible

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Fit for habitation, similar, or related use.

This award is not tenable by students of Natural Sciences.

But assuredly they do not include a tenable theory of the universe."

Unfortunately, from the tenable theory that the intensity of a sensation increases by definite additions of stimulus, Fechner was led on to postulate a unit of sensation, so that any sensation s might be regarded as composed of n units.

But this argument, too, is no longer tenable (see main text ).

That was the only tenable basis for our system of taxation.

It is simply not a tenable position to argue.

The rejection of Anglican orders in the 16th and 17th centuries was based on a theory about the " tradition of instruments," which has long ceased to be tenable in the face of history, and is abandoned by Romanists themselves.

But this argument, too, is no longer tenable (see main text).

It has suspected and amended its author, it has expunged his heresies; but whether it has put anything better or more tenable in their place may be gravely questioned.

The foster-brotherhood seems to have been unknown to the Franks and the Anglo-Saxons, the nations in which medieval gilds first appear; and hence Dr Pappenheim's conclusions, if tenable at all, apply only to Denmark or Scandinavia.

Duration of award Awards are normally tenable for up to 12 months.

This is hardly tenable in the light of the Apollonian intellect behind the tonal structure of this organ.

What are the roots of what we do and are they still tenable in the modern world of high finance and internet auctions?

Clarke's position soon seemed tenable only to himself and he was sacked.

However, as time went by and the number of BABs increased, these explanations became less tenable.

Choral Scholarships are tenable in conjunction with the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace.

Danish Nationals can apply for the scholarship tenable at universities or other approved institution in the UK.

So why does RWMAC consider that eventual deep disposal is the only tenable solution within the context of sustainable development?

Clarke 's position soon seemed tenable only to himself and he was sacked.

They are tenable in any subject area for study toward taught or research Master 's degrees or for the DPhil.

When Capt. LESLIE learned that the fort had been made tenable again he ordered that it should be defended.

The studentship is tenable for a maximum of three years at a stipend of £ 12,000.

Three awards, each tenable for three years, have now been made.

The fellowship is tenable for a period of up to 3 years.

Scholarships will be tenable for the duration of the staff members ' period of employment by the University.

Michael O'Neill, the council 's director of education said force-feeding uninterested pupils was no longer tenable.

Basically, it would be categorizing all places by the way that the 11th edition categorized them, which seems like the best way to do it, and possibly the only tenable, self-consistent way to do it.

The ground was skilfully chosen, but it was not legally nor constitutionally tenable.

But, as knowledge advanced, this conception ceased to be tenable in the crude form in which it was first put forward.

The Persians are not mentioned in history before the time of Cyrus; the attempt to identify them with the Parsua, a district in the Zagros chains south of Lake Urmia, often mentioned by the Assyrians, is not tenable.

This view does not seem to be tenable, for the old sacrificial carousals lack two of the essential elements of the gilds, namely corporative solidarity or permanent association and the spirit of Christian brotherhood.

Mill, while admitting the objections as good, if Comte's arrangement pretended to be the only one possible, still holds the arrangement as tenable for the purpose with which it was devised.

But in proportion as an earlier date has become more probable for Homer, the hypothesis of Ionic origin has become less tenable, and the belief better founded (I) that the poems represent accurately a welldefined phase of culture in prehistoric Greece, and (2) that this " Homeric " or " Achaean " phase was closed by some such general catastrophe as is presumed by the legends.

A number of entrance scholarships and leaving scholarships tenable at the universities are offered annually.

This important public school was opened in 1843, originally for the sons of clergymen, by whom alone certain scholarships are tenable.

The place was no longer tenable" (Moltke, Franco-German War).

The commonview that the British Empire has been won by purely defensive action is not tenable, and from the beginning of her reign Englishmen had taken the offensive, partly from religious but also from other motives.

The state grants scholarships tenable at European universities to promising pupils, and there are three important public libraries.

After the downfall of Oldenbarneveldt the office of lands'- advocate was abolished, and a new post, tenable for five years only, was erected in its place with the title of Raad-Pensionaris, or Pensionary of the Council, usually called by English writers.

The largest holding tenable by one person under this act was fixed at 50 caballerias, or 5625 acres; the price varies from £40 to £80 per caballeria of 1122 acres.

But for any theory of solution to be tenable, it must at least be consistent with the known thermodynamic relations, verified as those relations are by experiment.

It was formerly thought that Shumer was employed especially to denote the south of Babylonia, while Akkad was used only of the north, but this view is no longer regarded as tenable.

The theory that stories from the earlier life have been imported by mistake into the later, even if tenable, applies only to three of the miracles, and leaves.

In addition a number of technical scholarships of X150 each have been founded tenable in Europe or America.

The views of Karl Mallenhoff, which, though no longer tenable as a whole, have formed the basis of most of the subsequent criticism, may be best studied in his posthumous work, Beovulf, Untersuchungen fiber das angelsachsische Epos (1889).

But the other bishops were also against Gustavus, and, irritated by their conscientious opposition, the king abandoned the no longer tenable position of a moderator and came openly forward as an antagonist.

The chief magistracy was the strategia (tenable every second year), which combined with an unrestricted command in the field a large measure of civil authority.

The only tenable line of argument, in the present state of criticism, is to regard their phenomena as due to compilation, at the time when the canon (perhaps of Paul's epistles) was first formed.

Cornill therefore adopted the only tenable theory regarding the problem; viz.

It is largely endowed, and possesses exhibitions tenable at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham universities.