tenable 的定义
- capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute: a tenable theory.
- capable of being occupied, possessed, held, or enjoyed, as under certain conditions: a research grant tenable for two years.
tenable 近义词
reasonable
更多tenable例句
- It’s no longer tenable for companies like ExxonMobil to defy calls to align their businesses with decarbonizing the economy.
- I believe that in this case, the claim that these videos and photographs violate the dignity of the dead is neither morally tenable nor historically accurate.
- It was so expansive that once it came time for me to be serious and accept a certain type of isolation, I didn’t want to accept it, but it was tenable.
- The time may be approaching when that clever maneuver is no longer tenable.
- The shift has happened so suddenly and seismically that, to many people, the alternative no longer even appears tenable.
- They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.
- Employee dumping is when employers find it tenable to pay the per-employee penalty for not providing health insurance.
- That does not mean it is practical, advisable, tenable, moral or that it should be perpetual.
- On the other hand, an exclusive focus on satisfaction is not tenable either.
- He was at length convinced by the arguments of his opponents that the corn-laws were no longer tenable.
- The common theory, therefore, of the calculation of chances, appears to be tenable.
- Neither the harbour nor the town was tenable any longer, and orders were given for the embarkation of the troops.
- Our position in the fort was only tenable, provided the troops on our left held their position.
- A theory which the author continued to regard as partially tenable.