(a.) Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.
(a.) Capable of offering defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The defensive modifications of the functions of the ego itself seen in micropsia are closely allied to those seen in the dèjá vu experience and in depersonalization.
(2) Steroids are not recommended because they may compromise defenses against an underlying disease process.
(3) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(4) Since neutrophils are the first line of defense against infection the vulnerability to infection of the elderly may be due, at least in part, to age-related changes in neutrophils (PMNs).
(5) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
(6) It has been speculated that these cigarette smoke-induced alterations contribute to the depressed pulmonary defense mechanisms commonly demonstrated in smokers.
(7) The muscle-protein breakdown is sustained and the released amino acids are taken up by the liver and other RE structures where they are used as substrates for energy and for synthesis of defense-related proteins.
(8) Two other groups were trained in a classical defensive paradigm.
(9) The paper postulates that 'anal or sphincter defensiveness' is one of the precursors of the repression barrier.
(10) The complement system provides a critical level of defense against bacterial invasion.
(11) Accordingly, the 30-fold differences in aging rate among the mammalian species could be determined in part by peroxidation defense processes.
(12) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
(13) The Defense Department can object to a merger involving its key suppliers during a federal antitrust review, which in this case could be led by the Justice Department.
(14) The Lerner & Lerner Scale for assessing primitive defenses is reviewed.
(15) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.
(16) Questions are raised about the recent tendency in psychoanalytic theory to develop or invoke different theories of defense to explain a broad range of clinical phenomena.
(17) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(18) Although alpha 1-antiprotease (alpha 1-AP) binds and inactivates NE and is the major antielastase of the lower respiratory tract, antielastase defenses may be overwhelmed in CF, leading to progressive lung damage.
(19) Many child analytic patients use defenses to ward off feelings, many have not even reached the developmental level of experiencing feelings.
(20) Selective migration results in a relative preponderance of CD4 cells in the diffuse infiltrate and it is suggested that this is a mechanism likely to potentiate defensive reaction to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: any deficiency in selective migration may make immunological defences less effective and so contribute to the chronicity of the lesions of tuberculosis.
Tenable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although an unequivocal decision is not possible from existing knowledge, psychomotor or complex partial seizures of temporal lobe epilepsy would be the most tenable diagnosis.
(2) The tenability of the formulation is readily testable by clinical research.
(3) He told the court: “We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, ‘Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing they’re really interested in is subverting public health.’ ” Yet last week’s judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal.
(4) Brain models, to be tenable, must pass an extended Turing test in which the capacity to self organize through the Darwinian mechanism of variation and selection is a key element.
(5) The belief that alcoholism is rare among Jews appears to be tenable no longer.
(6) The IMF also thinks “it is no longer tenable” to imagine that Greece can move from having one of the eurozone’s weakest productivity growth rates to the highest.
(7) The judge has ordered the company to help the FBI bypass the passcode on an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers, but many in the tech community simply don’t think a compromise is tenable.
(8) It seems that the postulated advantages of intratumoral application--increased concentration and depot effect in the tumor tissue--are no longer tenable, thus large-scale clinical trials with intratumoral bleomycin treatment cannot be justified.
(9) We divided this strip into three fields, A-I, R, and RT, although an alternative interpretation that A-I and R are parts of a single field remains tenable.
(10) Thus, the classical theory of migraine is no longer tenable as viewed strictly and rigidly.
(11) Some Conservative MPs say his position as Speaker is no longer tenable.
(12) tsi-23 is therefore thought to be a host mutation, and the available evidence for a scattered phage genome being the cause of the defective nature of PBSX is thus less tenable.
(13) This model demonstrates that the two hit model, as originally proposed by Knudson for retinoblastoma in children, is not tenable for tumors in adults.
(14) An alternative explanation of the potentiated recovery in terms of retardation of habituation proved hardly tenable (Experiment 5).
(15) Thus, the historical concept of conjugation reactions as general detoxication processes is no longer tenable.
(16) The idea that they can lock us out and there will be no change is no longer tenable.
(17) This experience suggests that arterial kinks may constitute tenable indications for operative treatment in patients with transient cerebral ischemia who lack typical stenotic or ulcerative plaques to account for their symptoms.
(18) The use of steroid and antibiotic prophylaxis no longer is tenable on the basis of recent studies showing their inability to favorably influence the outcome of caustic injuries.
(19) But I’m not convinced that where we are now is tenable.
(20) It is no longer tenable that patients should die as a result of complications of malnutrition simply because they cannot or are unable to take adequate oral nutrition.