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"defensible" Definitions
  1. able to be supported by reasons or arguments that show that it is right or should be allowed
  2. (of a place) able to be defended from an attack

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Anyway, I think it was ... I find it defensible.
" Steve Womack, Arkansas, said the president's remarks "aren't defensible.
And so the bias is there, it&aposs just a question that he took a broad view, essentially if any investigative decision was defensible, not proper, but just defensible, he passed on it.
For one thing, it makes selfishness a lot less defensible.
It is the only defensible basis for any rational thought.
Even if it is, are the ethics even remotely defensible?
Defensible strategies for food tech entrepreneurs facing the Amazon juggernaut
"The charges in this case are defensible," Mr. Brafman said.
Of the two, Jones's centrist tone is the more defensible.
And meanwhile, I can focus back on my defensible boundaries.
None of these actions are normal, or defensible —  absent politics.
Is the position you're advocating a credible and defensible one?
Basing globalization on defensible democratic principles is its best defense.
Turns out it was much more defensible than I thought.
This belief was defensible ten or even five years ago.
Which, politically speaking, is an utterly defensible decision for Kemp.
"Data is the defensible barrier, not algorithms," Mr. Ng said.
Features alone are rarely enough to win a defensible market position.
There's a bias in decision-making toward the intrinsically more defensible.
Smith's line of reasoning is defensible — but not every reporter agrees.
Attacking the airfield is the most ethically defensible thing to do.
So, the existence of touch disease is defensible as a mistake.
So I think I have a proposal that is sensible, defensible.
The product — Is addressing this specific customer problem unique and defensible?
Taken individually, some of the Trump administration's actions may be defensible.
Did he really think we were doing something more morally defensible?
So, generously, some aspects of the deployment are at least defensible.
The underpayment of unprotected workers is not a defensible business model.
That doesn't mean Blue Apron has a sustainable or defensible business.
Hook's defenders say his deference to the White House is defensible.
When it comes to race, confusion is the most intellectually defensible position.
How savvy will Pruitt's team be about crafting legally defensible EPA rules?
Ultimately, I foresee only two long-term defensible plays for these cybercorns.
I think that's a defensible position, one we'll deal with in September.
Depending upon what law enforcement knows, this could be a defensible case.
That's not where I'm coming from, and going backwards isn't remotely defensible.
That was soft but defensible in light of Kyrgios's age and experience.
Questions were raised immediately about whether the policy would be legally defensible.
Thus data, rather than software, is the defensible barrier for many businesses.
Preserving your own uncertainty is defensible; putting others in jeopardy is not.
Moreover, some of the details of the Trump policy are perfectly defensible.
Is it ever defensible to make art out of someone else's suffering?
The windows are tiny (but very defensible in case of zombie attack).
Policies, procedures, and systems must be rigorous, thorough, and above all completely defensible.
His interpretations were a defensible analysis of a report that was poorly written.
It's one of the least defensible, and it's perhaps the easiest to stop.
Give yourself that opportunity to dream, but make it real, make it defensible.
You said people don't usually defend these cases, but is this one defensible?
Subsidising some deliveries was more defensible when postmen carried armfuls of essential letters.
Interest deductibility might be more defensible if its benefits were more evenly spread.
They just aren't necessary to enough people — or defensible enough to prevent copycats.
Which, actually, might have been a semi-defensible reason to let Comey go.
"Trump's travel ban legally sound, defensible all the way to SCOTUS" https://t.
But my favorite takeaway from this period is how defensible it all is.
Rewarding merit in this way might be defensible if it improved social mobility.
Those are pieces of technology that we feel are very critical and defensible.
Defensible borders implies military and economic capability, and such capability translates to power.
Each theory, they told him, was defensible, but each had its own downsides.
But that doesn't make failure defensible, sustainable or in accord with legal principles.
Getting a car after kissing it for 40 hours is humiliating but defensible.
None of it is defensible, whether the immigrants arrived here legally or illegally.
What conquers hate is the only defensible form of hate: hatred of evil.
To the degree that helps him serve his client's needs, it's completely defensible.
And the scripted cleanup pertained only to the least defensible of his comments.
But simply because something "works" in a political context doesn't make it defensible.
Candor, informality, and directness have dissolved not only prohibitions but also defensible standards.
The higher the stakes in the election, the more defensible this practice becomes.
Many centrist Democrats say Biden's choices on these issues are defensible on substantive grounds.
In this election season, some teachers are questioning whether classroom neutrality is morally defensible.
Are there legally defensible ways FERC could do so under the Federal Power Act?
That's at least somewhat defensible, given the quality of the other specifications and features.
But the Court's decision will help ensure that it is no longer constitutionally defensible.
A company must also have a durable, defensible business and a burly balance sheet.
So- it's-- in a sense, keeping the focus domestic-- is a more defensible boundary.
But the governor maintained that his truancy is more defensible than that of Sen.
It's not a normal or defensible thing to say when you're upset or absentminded.
The Startup The ones we like best at HAX are innovative, defensible and scalable.
For them, limiting corporate or government data mining is, in most instances, ethically defensible.
As legalization continues to spread, this is going to become less and less defensible.
I think that the reason that we made the conservative attack first was defensible.
That is undoubtedly a genuinely-held and morally defensible position that must be respected.
That's almost a defensible approach to the story, which concerns group psychology and responsibility.
Had Trump done this to advance legitimate foreign-policy objectives, it might be defensible.
Rather, focusing on job related knowledge, skills, and abilities is preferable and more defensible.
Mr. Kelly promised before his confirmation to be a reasonable enforcer of defensible policies.
It's less defensible if it's for social insurance, no matter how pressing the need.
"They're entitled to sue," he said, adding he believed the bill to be "very defensible."
The new code calls for fire-resistant roofs, siding and defensible space around the structure.
What's critical to making these services highly defensible is privileged access to these data sets.
Trump's iconoclastic approach, particularly his unpredictability, would be defensible if it actually achieved meaningful gains.
A truly defensible data moat doesn't come from just amassing the largest volume of data.
Perhaps he wanted to distract them from other, even less defensible aspects of his rule.
TC: Are machine learning APIs and developer tools defensible as investments in the long run?
I don't see any defensible position in this election except voting tactically against the Tories.
Another factor that works in Poplar's favor: the project has a defensible, cost-benefit appeal.
He's got a very strong and defensible position in that-- DAVID FABER: In that world.
Reticence on this question, as socialist Sam Gindin has recently said, is no longer defensible.
McCarthy repeated her stance that the rule is legally defensible under the Clean Air Act.
Mr. Wheeler will be tasked with trying to write a regulation that is legally defensible.
"These folks hadn't found the time to put in defensible space correctly," Ms. Green said.
On some level, that's totally defensible — kill the Night King and kill everybody else, right?
Number two, from a strategic perspective, I think it's still defensible, looking back at it.
Additionally, successful restoration measures across the range of sage grouse must be defensible in court.
The Treasury's legal authority is broad, and the policy defensible, but it's not a layup.
There's also a defensible -- if far from certain -- strategy in Bloomberg as chief Trump troll.
Six decades later, American political speech does the opposite — largely making defensible positions appear indefensible.
It comes down to the fact that it's part of a defensible strategy, Cohen says.
We were looking for demonstrably untrue statements, defensible under no reasonable interpretation of the facts.
But it would be more defensible than simply defining "sanctuary cities" in terms detainer requests.
If all the employees swear like sailors, then a dismissal over cursing may not be defensible.
In February that was a one-tenth discount to peers – defensible given Scout24's lower margins.
The location was perfect: easily defensible and strategically invaluable, at the hinge between Europe and Asia.
What might be a defensible position on a hill suddenly transforms to become an artillery platform.
That will require that the Senate pass something more defensible, more explainable and with bipartisan support.
It's also defensible for Sanders to turn that media baron's weapon against him for an hour.
And-- that's a defensible U.S.-- business where I don't have to worry about global scale, right?
Determination of price must also be rigorously defensible and in accordance with stated policies and procedures.
In other words, he's a vegan who doesn't think vegetarianism and veganism are morally defensible. Yup.
This, to be clear, is a defensible and easily supportable claim based on Bannon's own statements.
Fire personnel help residents create "defensible space" around their homes by removing brush and dead trees.
What might have been defensible in principle turned out to be a poor bargain in operation.
Justice Department lawyers could advise him against certain assertions if they don't feel it's legally defensible.
The proposal morphed over the course of 2016 into a more legally defensible country-based ban.
Mr. Larson called the Democrats' flight strategy "extreme," but said it was defensible in rare circumstances.
Pharmaceuticals, in addition to needing unique and defensible trademarks, are subject to their own market-specific limitations.
Assuming LSU has defensible tournament credentials, there's no reason why Simmons shouldn't be given that same chance.
What has really ended up being popular in that and defensible in that is the Medicaid expansion.
That argument would probably also make people mad, but it would have the virtue of being defensible.
Of course, this is what he has been doing, but now his case will appear more defensible.
I will…help ensure Israel has defensible borders, including through its continued control of the Golan Heights.
Atlassian is cash-flow positive and debt free, and has strong margins and a highly defensible story.
But a model showing Clinton at 98% or 85033% is not defensible based on the empirical evidence.
And it's those partnerships, along with the Carwow brand itself, that makes the startup's offering somewhat defensible.
Both sides have important material stakes and demands: defensible, contiguous borders, mutual security, and access to resources.
But almost all of them seem to mostly adhere to at least defensible interpretations of the facts.
Nixon, ruled that while a claim of executive privilege was at times defensible, it was not absolute.
But as a project of colonial dispossession, it is neither sustainable nor defensible in the 21st century.
But a model showing Clinton at 22016% or 22016% is not defensible based on the empirical evidence.
"Communism killed Kennedy" remains one of the few defensible statements that the John Birch Society ever issued.
It's like killing the filibuster, but doing it in the least defensible and most extended way possible.
" Cramer said, "JPMorgan is a totally defensible buy because it doesn't sell at a high multiple to earnings.
Let me explain what I mean by starting with a shot that is, on its face, totally defensible.
At least for the moment, investors will revert to saving billion-dollar valuations for exceptionally defensible, growing businesses.
LX: Given my experience, I think go to market is the most important because algorithms are less defensible.
So there are defensible reasons why some of the bargaining and brainstorming has to happen behind the scenes.
Either you have a plan that's defensible, that's coherent both ideologically and in policy terms, or you don't.
We create companies that are focused on defensible technology that capitalises on the technical skills of the cohort.
Fourth, every one of the United States demands in the ongoing trade negotiations with China is irrefutably defensible.
So Kim's intentions must be tested -- that is one reason why Trump's summit gambit with Kim is defensible.
Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the travel ban originated in a defensible conception of presidential authority.
It was poor social hygiene, not defensible as a matter of law or as effective law and order.
If the rivers and lakes are environmentally important enough, that is entirely defensible and consistent with our laws.
The statement says policies that regulate eligibility, like those related to hormones, should be backed by defensible science.
The agencies' water management policies might be defensible if the policies were working and providing some beneficial result.
Short-term success may be driven by exceptional execution; long-term value creation requires building a defensible model.
Or does he hit pause and come up with tighter, more defensible entrance restrictions for entrance by migrants?
In addition, it is defensible to regard Mr. Trump as better than available alternatives without endorsing his conduct.
The original legislation Republicans considered, and the original theory atop which it was built, was much more defensible.
It should be decided objectively, based on evidence, so that it's fair to everybody and defensible to everybody.
But federal lawyers disagreed about whether it would be legally defensible in court, according to The Washington Post.
Alex Pareene writes that while "free speech absolutism is an eminently defensible position," this particular argument is flawed.
I think she means that it's hard to determine, or maybe that it's unstable, which are defensible claims.
But Sharon Block, a senior Labor Department official under President Barack Obama, argued that the deal was defensible.
Is it morally defensible to stop clear-cutting, or any other kind of radical changes, to the environment?
So while there may be defensible nationalisms out there, it's painfully clear that Trump's isn't one of them.
A lot of the individual contentious measures in the GOP plan are defensible in at least some contexts.
So in that very narrow sense, the claim that Russia didn't affect the outcome of the election is defensible.
This is a hustle, and it's not entirely defensible, but it might be the lifeblood of what we do.
I think Fincher's endless takes are probably defensible in the context of trying to create something of incredible precision.
For example, we think that carrier-neutral data centers is an area that's defensible and poised for exciting growth.
The worst form of identity politics, I mean, the least defensible form of identity politics is white identity politics.
The real value of occupying a defensible place in this stack is not even in processing the payment, however.
" Ahead of Yiannopoulos's resignation, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow criticized the senior editor, calling his comments "not defensible.
This may have been poor manners, yes — but it was also defensible in light of the superciliousness of Trudeau.
The error may seem morally defensible: Staley wanted to defend a colleague from what he saw as unfounded smears.
And many consider giving freshmen more grants than upperclassmen defensible — as long as they know what is going on.
That network model is more defensible if it gains a big enough audience, and could be monetized with ads.
"Trump's policy paper spoke about Israel having defensible borders, which are clearly different from the 1967 lines," he said.
Enlisting the support of the men who evidently benefited for no defensible reason strikes me as a great idea.
Granted, that Cam Ward extension looks iffy, and looks more like a loyalty move than a defensible hockey decision.
If the kick had brought the Cowboys within a field goal, Garrett&aposs decision might have been more defensible.
Ventura County, where 1,020 structures have burned, has a mandatory fire prevention ordinance requiring 100 feet of defensible space.
I call this image "defensible," because it more or less makes sense why Ruth's face would be half in shadow.
Most of them are true, or at a minimum defensible, but it's often not exactly clear what they amount to.
Thinking about how to stay relevant as a fintech company, the only defensible, long-term strategy is driven by automation.
A worthwhile debate begins with a reasonably defensible diagnosis of a problem and proceeds with prescriptions to fit that diagnosis.
The cost of violating US sanctions can be enormous, while the cost of deactivating a defensible account is relatively small.
"This is what those who have benefited from opaque pricing practices don't want to see, because it's just not defensible."
It begs the question by assuming broad consensus that the norm under attack was proper and defensible to begin with.
Don't obsess over creating a unique algorithm — that isn't your company's defensible intellectual property: Your proprietary user behavior data is.
What is defensible is why [a customer] is buying Birdies, and why she is telling her friends to shop us.
Interference, on the other hand, relies on our ability to create a resilient and defensible infrastructure to ward off cyberattacks.
That's expected at this point — and, indeed, quite defensible, considering Trump is the top-polling Republican and his positions matter.
Following the dot-com bubble, institutional investors were "looking for more defensible operating models in a difficult market," Ethridge said.
Running backs don't have that much of an impact on the game these days, so letting Miller go is defensible.
When it comes to the controversial TPP, which president-elect Donald Trump has opposed, Brady said the plan was defensible.
In recent days, the president and his aides have tried to recast his original assertion to make it more defensible.
In White's view, Elon Musk has a defensible case, though this is not the same thing as a winning case.
A short-term stoppage to obtain basic parliamentary fairness, or in defense of the rule of law, could be defensible.
The logic is tenuous, but defensible, at least so long as the world isn't in a state of extraordinary crisis.
For example, it's really attractive if a company has built barriers to entry/ a highly defensible moat (like strong network effects).
Wade during his testimony, was defensible, and both conservative and liberal legal scholars find the legal analysis underpinning Millhiser's piece sound.
Is there any information that would make you think it would have been in any way defensible to take this meeting?
In fact, it's state law that homeowners in fire country maintain 100 feet of cleared out "defensible space" around their houses.
A poll of more than 61,000 readers of Focus Online magazine showed 82 percent of them viewed the poem as defensible.
It seems like the founders have thought a lot about this and have decided that this tracking is good and defensible.
"You can do a financial restructuring, but if you don't have a defensible business proposition, you get liquidated anyway," he said.
In fact, we absolutely should not be, and it's perfectly defensible to let an exchange end at a natural stopping point.
Ultimately, it sounds like the Italians are asking the US to make a defensible political case for each strike in advance.
Under present circumstances, that is not a position I would agree with, but it is a perfectly respectable and defensible one.
It is less defensible now that superstar firms are gaining control of entire markets and finding new ways to entrench themselves.
This sounded less controversial and seemed more legally defensible, and it proved not to be a deal breaker for Republican leaders.
Lacking central authority, state survival is paramount — and in order to survive, states must maintain sovereignty via defined and defensible borders.
What it does have to do, out of respect for them as human beings, is provide defensible reasons for declining them.
This problem has existed under Republican and Democratic administrations, but the closer Washington inches toward insolvency, the less defensible it becomes.
It's undeniable that administrators are under a lot of pressure from angry students, whose hurt and humiliation stem from defensible expectations.
There is a defensible case to be made that this subject is moving closer to the daily beat of the campaign.
Some of Trump's defenders are taking an entirely different approach and stating that Trump's actions were not only defensible, but good.
Those subsidies are entirely defensible, but both parties in Congress have agreed to phase them out in a couple of years.
The falsehoods of the latter are more respectable than Trump's, and perhaps defensible as a necessary evil in a dangerous world.
"It helps in that it gives us defensible space," said Ralph M. Terrazas, the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
But in the specific case of health care, Republicans have struggled to find a politically defensible way to articulate their viewpoint.
"Probably the most defensible thing is to make sure you consider different slices and report out what could happen," says Clinton.
Unfortunately, most counties in the United States don't incorporate these protections in their building codes or help homeowners maintain defensible space.
The British-born Xander Parish played the young god as callow, a defensible interpretation undermined by Mr. Parish's absurdly broad acting.
In the end, Bush relented — it took years, but the programs were put on what Mueller considered a defensible legal footing.
There may be a defensible argument that strengthening the U.S. biologics industry is more important than providing cheaper medication to Malaysians.
That remains a defensible decision, economically and politically, but it set in motion two dynamics that are now threatening the program.
Cinematic VR refers to storytelling and short films — content whose success is dependent on creativity more than on unique, defensible technology.
But it is popular and political defensible, as well as being something a Democratic president can do without majority support in congress.
As an ethical matter, it may be defensible for Warren to argue that Medicare for All is fairer than the current system.
"The manner in which some redactions have been used casts doubt on whether the remaining redactions are necessary and defensible," Grassley wrote.
The FCC's policy merely codifies the principle, using Title II reclassification, in a way that is legally defensible against broadband industry attacks.
Bezos' usage of the Washington Post as a blog is at least partially defensible, since papers are often opinionated entities by nature.
Of course, even using public data as a starting point, gathering the data to make the model defensible is the harder part.
So this might be a good time to make sure there's a defensible space between your home and brush that might burn.
Even if the Trump administration develops a clear, reasonable, and legally defensible rule, a future administration can always try to undo it.
"However, they need to focus on their offerings and what niche they can truly 'own' and carve out as a defensible strategy."
"Fuel breaks," which control the spread of fire, should be established near communities, and there should be adequate defensible space around structures.
Mylan continues to increase its focus on difficult-to-manufacture, chemically complex drugs, which generally command relatively more defensible prices and margins.
Your solution — selling to the second buyer, but also apologizing to, and partially compensating, the first buyer — is both defensible and polite.
We are well past the point where equivocations are defensible, and we're nearly past the point where a moral reconstitution is possible.
First, Trump must bring Saudi Arabia to its senses: Piling human suffering on the people of Yemen is not strategic or defensible.
Someone bring him a bottle Only possible defensible explanation for Trump's disgusting, unpresidential, narcissistic behavior, would be early-on-set dementia. Maybe.
Public works experts say turning pavement to gravel can be a defensible strategy when it comes to old infrastructure and limited money.
Mr. Trump notes "many" of the announced bonuses amount to thousands of dollars, a number that is vague enough to be defensible.
Hints of what could be more defensible—given the history of the litigation so far—came from the arguments at the Ninth Circuit.
But the former is a more defensible goal, and a top income rate of 45 or 47 percent would help get us there.
The decision to launch new iPads that are compatible with older accessories may indeed be defensible, but the confusingly uniform branding is not.
Adi: People have pointed out the dubious consent of Deckard's kiss with Rachael, so I guess it's more defensible if that was preprogrammed.
That's maybe not ideal, but at least a defensible choice for a company that has a clear financial stake in the Chinese market.
Domains requiring less data to reach the performance threshold and less data to maintain that performance (the stability threshold) are not very defensible.
Indeed, Mr Mueller may have released his indictment in part to make sacking him even less defensible than it would have been otherwise.
But Boehmermann has received backing from prominent German artists while 82 percent of people polled by Focus magazine viewed the poem as defensible.
It certainly looked bad for those want it to look bad, and it's sort of defensible for those who want to defend it.
With the new fund we will seek out startups that use deep tech and data to create a defensible proposition that has longevity.
"Many people have tried and failed to produce a scientifically defensible answer to this question," FAA communications manager Lynn Lunsford told the Post.
The four-page document Barr released last month, outlining Mueller's key findings, was defensible, especially given the intense public fascination with the matter.
This company's diverse product portfolio, which benefits from relatively reliable demand and generally defensible margins, should drive consistently positive free cash flow (FCF).
There's also a strong security element to that, and all of this requires heavy technical expertise to build something pretty defensible, Yuen said.
Chief Justice John Roberts, a traditional conservative, largely separated the policy from the president, saying it was easily defensible on its own merits.
Many legal experts say a more careful executive order could actually stand — that much of the policy behind Trump's current order is defensible.
Robust overseas containment was a defensible first step — travel restrictions can delay the arrival and spread of an outbreak by a few weeks.
If it were just the case that annual physicals don't help us but also don't hurt us, then the practice might be defensible.
They have always, however, been circumspect: their tariff actions were limited, and the economic basis for their actions was at least vaguely defensible.
The case for Republicans casting a vote for Mr. Trump in 2016 on those grounds is defensible, though I made a different choice.
They added that there is "no defensible reason to wait until his book is published" to hear the information from Bolton (The Hill).
"Some companies can justify debt because they have defensible niches and stable cash flow," says Michael Pachter, a research analyst at Wedbush Securities.
One defensible inference is that Mr. Trump wanted to keep a pliable ally as the White House's principal liaison with the intelligence community.
Had the White House genuinely leaned on Ukraine to take concrete steps towards curtailing the country's oligarchs, it would have been perfectly defensible.
One senior administration official said the remarks from both men were unnecessary distractions from what many officials believed was a defensible policy decision.
Jefferies reiterated its buy rating on the cosmetics retailer, saying the company's business model is "defensible" against the rising threat of e-commerce.
The whole point of changing the "Muslim ban" to a ban on immigrants from specific countries was to make it more constitutionally defensible.
Yeah. And that's defensible if it was because it's an embarrassing family thing, but not if it was a threat to his candidacy?
Because it sounds like an awesome technology, I'm sure it's highly defensible… but you've got to convince people that the CO2 is the problem.
Communities can help, he said, by working together to create buffer zones around them, what is known as "defensible space," before a fire strikes.
Nevertheless, even if Thiel's motivations are defensible, some say his actions provide a "blueprint" for how the wealthy and powerful can control the media.
However, some will not, and others, even if brought in good faith, may be defensible as fair use or for some other permissible reason.
If a company doesn't have something that is proprietary that makes it defensible against potential competitors, then its success will lead to its downfall.
As mentioned above: That means that proprietary code is no longer a defensible asset when it's in the path of the mainstream AI train.
Were this a normal election, with a middle-of-the-road conservative Republican about to assume the presidency, this might be a defensible strategy.
Regulatory arbitrage, if it ever truly existed within finance, is not a defensible business strategy: product quality, customer outreach and lower cost structures are.
"Now the proposal would have to be defensible without referring to climate change explicitly, so to talk about weather risks in general," he said.
But not at Lunada Bay, which offers not only some of the most powerful waves in Southern California, but also an easily defensible location.
There is no defensible IP, no technology, no regulatory moats, no network effects, and no flywheel effect (the ancillary businesses are stupid, just stupid).
If there is a problem, or there are issues, and they're not being forthcoming, and you literally have to go that far, it's defensible.
Building on such efforts is likely to have far greater effects than continuing to demonize Citizens, whose logic is defensible on First Amendment grounds.
And as Thomas Bach, the I.O.C.'s president, has repeatedly pointed out, lifetime bans from sports for doping offenses have not proved legally defensible.
"This proposed bill is a very clever reform because it addresses the least popular and the least defensible aspects of the rule," he said.
Daryl is rough-edged but defensible in this episode, until he passively murders a defenseless Savior once he's provided information and outlived his usefulness.
The last 18-plus months have underscored why legal doctrines that free the political branches of constitutional constraints in immigration are no longer defensible.
The fact that it's possible to translate the same lines a hundred different times and all of them are defensible in entirely different ways?
There are bigger ones, though, that American politicians have opted to ignore: Is it legally defensible to hold on to the territory in perpetuity?
It also means keeping Israel defensible against foreign armies, which often means requiring a continued Israeli military presence in parts of the West Bank.
If he had undertaken the same acts for some public-spirited reason, each might individually be construed as a defensible exercise of presidential power.
Mr. Wheeler understands how the regulatory process works and the type of effort that is required to develop effective and legally defensible regulatory reforms.
The place was defensible, in an officer-school way — a position overlooking the river and lower trails with enough space for helicopters to land.
I was caught in the crosshairs of a justice system that destroys the lives of poor and working class people for no defensible reason.
Having US law enforcement taking these steps "doesn't put us in a good place to be doing this, or in a defensible position," Ghappour said.
There's only one defensible response to the suggestion that was made in that email, describing the information that would be provided by the Russian government.
But relying on the shortcut of past compensation to determine the true value of a job or candidate is not a defensible choice—it's lazy.
However, Trump has shied away from actually doing so — evidently realizing that he had no defensible justification, and fearing the political backlash that would ensue.
In an internal memo to staff obtained by ProPublica, Duke said the Trump administration made the choice based on what they believed was legally defensible.
And it would have countered his more defensible claim: that Google, and the Valley, so welcoming of gender diversity, are narrower-minded about unorthodox opinions.
There was Oscar Newman and Defensible Space and we thought low-rise buildings, low-rise public housing might really work to bring crime rates down.
Indeed, as fanatics of every stripe seem intent on proving, when a deity is perceived to be on their side, horrific actions are made defensible.
"The more I investigate the case, the more I realize that the charges that are currently in the indictment are very defensible indeed," Brafman said.
It looks like rational consolidation at a defensible price — aspects mostly lacking from Mr. Wang's recent splurge on movie studios, theme parks and soccer clubs.
A defensible data strategy takes into account whether the appropriate data is being collected at a pace that is appropriate for the problem at hand.
NAGOURNEY: Poking fun at the murders in Chicago to me is one of those things that I suppose in theory is defensible — but really isn't.
The bulletin boards were "a great way to get cracked games," O'Rourke said, adding that he later realized his habit wasn't morally defensible and stopped.
Her ruthless decision to take revenge on a surrendered enemy and the innocent population of King's Landing may not be defensible, but it's not insane.
For Christian conservatives in particular, these double standards are understandable (who isn't tempted to compromise for the sake of victory, especially now?) but not defensible.
Bernays's version, which skips the arctic intro and the chapter's on Victor's childhood and education (an entirely defensible move), dashes straight to the reanimation part.
Aipac clearly understood "that if they need to defend Israel to America, then Israel needs to be able to be morally defensible," Rabbi Salkin said.
But the main conclusion of any fair reading of immigration economics is that the preference of fewer immigrants — though perhaps defensible — is the costly option.
However, sometimes it's possible to become an embedded, defensible part of the software stack, and that's where we've been investing over the past two years.
When their factual claims are widely refuted, they work to develop new, more defensible claims that can nonetheless support their key political and policy goals.
The question is whether the crux of the government's explanation for ditching DACA—the purported illegality of the programme—is plausible and defensible under the APA.
If Democrats want to be defenders of democracy above partisan interest, then their responses to Republican anti-democratic moves need to be defensible on majoritarian grounds.
This was a genuinely novel move, and legal scholars have a range of opinions on how defensible this is, so we'll see how the courts rule.
But that is also a challenging space, and if there is an actual market for such a service, it might have been hard to prove defensible.
It may still have a defensible position thanks not only to emerging demand for its hardware but also its GPU proliferation locking developers into its ecosystem.
Finding the Goldilocks zone for applied AI It's easier than ever to build software, which makes it harder than ever to build a defensible software business.
But like a Victorian without his God, I felt empty and anxious without a defensible principle: All I could hear was liberalism's melancholy, long, retreating roar.
President Trump has now appointed a new acting attorney general who will defend the order, or at least those parts of it that are legally defensible.
"Don't Argue," he teasingly cautions the reader at one point, having offered a (perfectly defensible if also profoundly mistaken) ranking of the seven "Star Wars" movies.
Mr. Buffett inspired a generation of value investors to seek out companies with defensible advantages that could help protect profit — or "moats" in his investment argot.
But then on the other other hand, Trump's personal behavior around Putin is, let's be frank, super weird, in ways that make internal resistance more defensible.
The destruction of the videotapes looks much less defensible once it is clear that the tapes contained evidence of legal violations, possibly implicating Ms. Haspel herself.
Besides intentionally killing or harming civilians, targeting a country's cultural sites is among the least defensible acts that any military could commit during an armed conflict.
The novelty of what the Keys' officials are proposing is perhaps best demonstrated by the fact that nobody can say for certain whether it's legally defensible.
But those tweets imperiled the president's own decision because he could've had a legally defensible, well-thought position, yet he undercut it with those three tweets.
It is utterly absurd to imagine that people are in love with their current health insurers, and that the current system is in any way defensible.
Someone bring him a bottle," she later tweeted, adding: "Only possible defensible explanation for Trump's disgusting, unpresidential, narcissistic behavior, would be early-on-set dementia. Maybe.
So, as I said before you arrived, senator, you know at the end of the day, I felt that this was defensible legal position to take.
That's not to condone this system, but rather to note that, within this context, Aung Sang Suu Kyi's comment becomes, while not more defensible, more comprehensible.
This difference will show up at the debate, allowing Clinton to give factually defensible and politically tenable answers to a range of questions on weighty matters.
I mean all those things may be defensible individually in a vacuum, but an incredibly light touch for anyone who has ever gone through and FBI investigation.
His interpretations were a defensible analysis of a report that was poorly written and contained a number of confusing and vague observations on the question of obstruction.
As sharing and vetting environmental data have become bigger parts of modern ecology, however, those idiosyncrasies have become less defensible, as the OHI effort came to rue.
Getting involved in Formula E might have been a defensible — and potentially even practical — decision for a young, hungry company that appeared to be on the rise.
This is the only question that matters: Can Snapchat produce defensible growth in active users and increased engagement, which is a proxy for addressable revenue per user?
"The bulletin boards were 'a great way to get cracked games,' O'Rourke said, adding that he later realized his habit wasn't morally defensible and stopped," Menn writes.
The guest had ordered Chateau Pichon Longueville Contesse de Lalande 2001—a defensible wine in itself, though the "budget" choice by comparison at £260, or US $333.
Asking someone to undo years of work — and to do it in a careful, legally defensible way — requires a deft management touch, not constant confrontation and enmity.
Despite practical difficulties—the difference between a growth-enhancing dose and a veterinarially defensible prophylaxis may often be in the eye of the beholder—more should follow.
Around the nation's wildfire hot zones, the phrase "defensible space" (hashtag #defensiblespace) is now commonplace shorthand for clearing flammable brush and litter around homes in certain ways.
His first taste of violence may be a noble one — and defensible in the real world, too — but doling out Old West justice is a dangerous ambrosia.
It's easily defensible, and the narrative is so popular it has already been produced in myriad forms, and continues to be profitable for those who tell it.
After starting his career in venture capital, Currier founded a series of companies and incubators that took advantage of network effects to grow and create defensible value.
But continuing to rely on rulers who have responded to dissent with torture, tear gas, jail cells and travel bans is not a defensible long-term strategy.
It should also direct federal agencies to develop clear standards for listing species, with objective and legally defensible criteria, such as population size and rate of decline.
There is also broad recognition of Israel's need to ensure that the borders are secure and defensible, and that the territory of Palestine is viable and contiguous.
Perhaps the official reason for the no-cash policy is efficiency, and if you are running, say, a restaurant with a heavy patron turnover, this is defensible.
It is a neatly defined and easily defensible area, with fertile soil, and it serves as the easiest passageway from the rest of the peninsula into Europe.
Even if each action might be defensible on its own, experts and foreign officials have strained to match them with a consistent set of motives and objectives.
It's defensible, because while some usage and style guides — including The New York Times's — call for "who" and "whom" when people are involved, others say it's elective.
Donald Trump has certainly done some things that are not defensible, including his comments about white supremacists after Charlottesville and his disastrous press conference with Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, some legal experts were dismissive of the pushback on executive privilege, arguing that such a tactic would be even less defensible than a firing of Rosenstein.
Yes, Christie called out fools in certain circumstances where they deserved it and steamrolled opponents who stood in the way of some plans that were wholly defensible.
It's more defensible to say that the votes reveal something important about Sanders's approach to the legislative process but that's less obviously resonant with Rust Belt voters.
Minor changes to the political and electoral system, each one potentially defensible on its own terms, amounted to an attempt to undermine the functioning of Hungarian democracy.
So, ironically, the consumer business turned out to be hard economically and competitively intensive, but opened the door to build an incredibly lucrative and defensible enterprise business.
"They developed solutions that are ... highly defensible, highly protected, actually responding to consumer requirements rather than telling the consumer what they should want," MCAM founder David Martin said.
Mulvaney's comments are in line with the view among administration lawyers that it's legally defensible for the President to condition aid on an investigation into a past election.
This all said, I believe that Amazon is the most defensible company on earth, and we haven't even begun to grasp the scale of its dominance over competitors.
It includes updated ordinances, like a requirement for "100 feet of defensible space," meaning foliage must be far enough apart to no longer be considered a fire hazard.
Segments that EF will primarily focus on include defensible technology, AI, machine learning, and robotics, in addition to any opportunities spotted for deep tech consumer companies in India.
Whether it's defensible to tweak the details for maximum audience impact and attempt to influence public opinion through art is not a question the movie wants to explore.
My larger point is this: We should be having more of a conversation about this question, not simply assuming that anything is defensible if the results are good.
"We now have a robust, defensible age for early humans being present in North America more than 100,000 years previous than what people had imagined," Paces told reporters.
Still, its choice of subjects is usually mildly more defensible: Fred Cole; Fats Domino; Harry Dean Stanton; Tom Petty; Gary Weir, the man who played Bozo the Clown.
Party leaders have been generally and unnecessarily sheepish about calling for Trump's impeachment, but this would be a perfectly defensible place for them to draw a bright line.
The Humira settlement "adds unexpected royalties during the biosimilar years and indicates that AbbVie's patents ... are defensible," BMO Capital Markets analyst Alex Arfaei said in a research note.
Residents should also maintain their "defensible space," or areas within 100 feet of their homes, by pruning branches, small trees, shrubs and grasses at least once every year.
"  Such payments would be defensible, he argued, so long as "there is a strong personal component to a payment — like protecting your wife, children and family from scandal.
The goal is to produce a plan that the White House thinks is defensible, the official said, rather than have a proposal that is a mishmash of compromises.
So if biological evolution is a product of cosmological natural selection, it has a purpose in a defensible sense of that term—and we're part of that purpose.
By his second paragraph, Wasson, the author of five books including "Fosse," argues that improv has become "America's farthest-reaching indigenous art form," a bold, if defensible claim.
Minor changes to the political and electoral system, each one potentially defensible on its own terms, amounted to an attempt to undermine the functioning of the democratic system.
And honestly, you don't use a patent unless you feel that it's defensible because it's expensive, and it takes a long time, and it's just not worth it.
It is to take a positive stand that these views are within the realm of defensible rational discourse, and that these people are worth taking seriously as thinkers.
A few hurricanes seemed to weaken with Stormfury's wrath, but over time researchers realized there was no defensible connection between the methods and the outcome of the storm.
As an added bonus, defensible and costly malpractice lawsuits would likely be reduced because of the bigger burden associated with suing the government instead of the individual physician.
Pelosi's actions under a divided government are more defensible than those of Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia, soon operating for the first time under unified Democratic control.
"In a city of self-inflicted wounds, this one is more dangerous and less defensible than most," Obama wrote of the vacancy in a Huffington Post op-ed.
A nation has to know that military action being taken in its name follows morally defensible rules — that soldiers do not, for instance, kill unarmed civilians or prisoners.
If one agrees that the windfall contracts secured by Hunter Biden were obvious influence peddling, then Trump pushing for an investigation into that possible crime becomes more defensible.
The right to employ such provisions against China under W.T.O. rules expired in 2013, theoretically making any retaliatory moves by China now more defensible on the world stage.
"The most defensible number ... might be -$4.9 billion," Matthew Hourihan, R&D budget analysis director at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says in an email.
Kamala Harris of California, who recently rolled out her 2020 presidential campaign, whether "the existence of multi-billionaires is morally defensible" in a society where poverty is pervasive.
The assumption of very low interest rates is convenient, but also very defensible, with experts widely agreeing that borrowing costs are unlikely to explode in the near future.
That is not part of his official duty to aid refugees as they start a new life in the U.S., nor is it legally defensible, according to the ACLU.
While he acknowledges there may be pain for the some interest rate sensitive sectors of the economy, it is a defensible path for the U.S. central bank to pursue.
But, if I have a choice, I'd rather start a business where I know if it works, it will be defensible… that I can really protect it from competition.
Part of Ahmad Shah Massoud's strategy for defending Panjshir from the Russians and the Taliban was strategic retreats from less defensible positions on the outer edges of the province.
But some legal experts have argued that this could be characterized in a more defensible way: as a recommendation of prosecutorial discretion, from the head of the executive branch.
And those great low-lying colonial ports will prove far more susceptible to sudden flooding and rises in sea level than older, more defensible ports farther up rivers were.
Whether you believed these decisions were principled or defensible or not, there's very little basis to believe the public sees the court as anything other than a political agent.
Think of the business strategy as the story in your pitch deck – what your business offers, what problem is it solving, why is this defensible, how will you grow.
To draw defensible conclusions and make recommendations that will be heeded, an inquiry has to show that it has left no stone unturned and has weighed the evidence objectively.
Mary thwarted the plan, and Jessica, her identical twin, ended up murdered by Mary instead — which makes Mary look a lot more defensible to Spencer and Veronica (Lesley Fera).
Even Mr Thiel's resort to anonymity is defensible: if a legal case is a good one, it should not matter whether it is known who is paying for it.
In the process of litigating their grievance, Trump's critics are charging headlong off of defensible terrain and into a debate about American values—debates that Trump tends to win.
Russian bombing forced opposition groups to hunker down, halting Mr. Assad's retreat and even allowing him to seize some areas that, while small, make his current holdings more defensible.
Experts agree there is also little doubt that despite what might feel like draconian curbs on human rights, putting an entire nation into lockdown is defensible in international law.
People who have spoken with Mr. Wheeler say they expect to see his more cautious approach reflected in a final rule that is less radical but more legally defensible.
I very rarely use Facebook in general, and remain there for increasingly contradictory and decreasingly defensible reasons, most of which amount to momentum and some muttering about network effects.
Less defensible would be the desire to discourage the patronage of a certain category of customer whose presence might be perceived as a turnoff to the more upscale majority.
But again, Pruitt will have to make the rule legally defensible, and he's certain to be challenged by green groups, which are very skilled at this kind of litigation.
This year, the Economist called North Korea the worst place in the world in which to invest, yet Abt and the others claim it's good business — and morally defensible.
"A port like this isn't very defensible against attack," said Philip C. Saunders, director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the National Defense University.
So yes, patent quality is important, and we must provide the USPTO with the resources it needs to carefully weigh patent applications and make consistent, defensible and predictable decisions.
It's a story about how far the conservative media and some congressional Republicans are willing to go to muddy the waters around Donald Trump's wildest and least defensible ideas.
"[It'll be] last because rights deals are long-term … I say it's the least affected, because [sports] is unique and defensible in a world where nothing is," he added.
As with any company, the more data it collects over time, the better those results get — and the more defensible the business becomes, because it can be the best product.
There are people doing it, checking it, trying to make sure the research is covering the right thing, and people trying to make sure the research is understandable and defensible.
And the market helps shape the way the public feels and thinks: They make things seem cool and uncool, defensible and indefensible, right and wrong, the future and the past.
The gift of a happy ending, even if that ending doesn't include survival, is how AHS lets the audience know which character's motivations were defensible according to its own morality.
Ross' analysis will provide all of the economic and political ammunition the administration will need to take bold and legally defensible actions -- should the studies conclude such actions are necessary.
That said, here's what I've ferreted out, from conversations with senior administration officials over the past 72 hours: The common view within the Trump administration: DACA is not legally defensible.
The city has many other markers and place names honouring Confederates and racists, but the four Mr Landrieu targeted for removal were arguably the most prominent and the least defensible.
So Mr. Brown, a Democrat, had to file charges that were factually and tactically defensible while still being seen as answering the neighborhood's anxious call as firmly as he could.
On Breitbart's radio show this morning, Marlow and Breitbart Washington editor Matt Boyle both described Yiannopoulos' comments as "not defensible," but it's still unclear whether they're going to fire him.
This was also done by the Clinton administration, so it would constitute a perfectly viable slam on Clinton's record if Trump wanted to bother to make a factually defensible claim.
He's one of the few white filmmakers whose movies have repeatedly used the n-word across his career, and on a more defensible level, his movies celebrate scumbags and reprobates.
It is a defensible position, but also one that, Ms. Merkel's advisers said, could easily be twisted and exploited by populists (and one that even some Christian Democrats disagreed with).
In this case, it says it's legally obligated to act because of financial sanctions, a standard that has not been evenly applied and which experts say may not be defensible.
He experienced a totally normal, totally banal American politics gaffe cycle in which he said something politically awkward but totally defensible and then wound up spinning away from it furiously.
" The study, a "one-time failure to prevent harm to a few dozen people" (as he breezily puts it) "may even have been defensible by the standards of the day.
But no defensible free-speech tradition accepts harassment and threats as speech, treats foreign propaganda campaigns as legitimate debate or thinks that social-media bots ought to enjoy constitutional protection.
Even state officials in Morelos who supported the program acknowledged that it operated in a legal gray area, though, like Mr. Capella, they called it legal, defensible — and highly effective.
She's actually done some good things for plenty of people, and when you look at everything she's done that you could call "bad" through a certain lens, they're at least defensible.
Attractive though this idea is, the precautionary principle is only defensible if it is evidence based, and balances the risks of innovation against the known harms of not using the technology.
Even though management considers the fair values reasonable and defensible based on the methodologies applied and the information available, others might apply a different fair value for the Company's share options.
If Zuckerberg played it safe during his U.S. congressional testimony by being boring, he dodged scandal here by using the abbreviated format to bend the testimony toward his most defensible positions.
It is also time to stop pretending that Supreme Court justices can decide hard cases without reference to their views about what a cohesive and defensible American moral philosophy looks like.
And the goal for businesses is finding and occupying a defensible position in this stack that allows them to intercept payments, capturing and controlling value to become that ultimate financial platform.
Stephen J.K. Walters, a professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and former economic advisor to MLB teams, said mid- and small-market teams are taking an approach that is defensible.
As substantively defensible—even virtuous—as dealmaking can be, taking this tack runs the risk of confirming the public's worst fears about Clinton: that she's dishonest and lacking in core conviction.
Yates, a long-time Justice Department official who served as President Obama's deputy attorney general, responded Monday by issuing a memo to agency officials saying the order is not legally defensible.
On the other hand, Williams said partial ad-blocking, which is Adblock Plus's primary model, is a more defensible way for companies to recoup revenue without stripping power from internet users.
Even if one granted the defensible premise that the national government needs to do more to force industry to produce emergency medical supplies, equating domestic crisis with foreign war is dangerous.
The convergence of Jay's eccentric pursuits with disciplined art history is a bit of a stretch for the Met, but it is gracefully handled, and defensible on a couple of grounds.
The mistake she makes — which ultimately makes her so vulnerable — is that McCain wants to be viewed as a reasonable, defensible, and respectable conservative woman who sometimes disagrees with her friends.
Instead of sticking to the most defensible case for a Senate acquittal of Trump, Republicans from the president on down are making arguments that range from the implausible to the embarrassing.
Communities and individual residents have their parts to play as well, whether making homes and structures more defensible, developing community-wide plans to reduce wildfire risk or making other "firewise" preparations.
The VoteCastr model's approach is defensible, if ham-handed: If it believes that 500 voters in a precinct will vote, it will assume that the 500 likeliest voters have turned out.
If we are on the verge of a world where animals are no longer required to produce the meat we eat, those costs are going to become less and less defensible.
Omar essentially seemed to wink at a wild and baseless conspiracy theory and then, when called on it, retreated to a more defensible claim without apologizing or disavowing it in any way.
He said he would like to see "fortifications, villages built in defensible locations, specialized weapons of war, artistic or symbol depictions of war," and more than one site before calling it warfare.
He came up with the twice-Medicare benchmark, even putting suggested wording for patients to print and carry with them on downloadable wallet cards, because he says it's an amount that's defensible.
Samsung isn't the only [company] out there offering Android phones, so they have a less defensible position, which makes it all the more crucial that they work on repairing that brand ASAP.
The drive is defensible on security grounds, but could lead to higher mobile bills, less investment and more widespread outages like the one caused on Thursday by Swedish group Ericsson's glitchy software.
Sure, that explanation strained credulity somewhat -- Trump had been effusive in his praise for Comey's decision to re-open the Clinton investigation in late October -- but it was defensible on the merits.
That said, Kasich staying in the race now is only marginally more defensible than Dr. Ben Carson lingering on -- which is to say, it's time for the good governor to step aside.
There are only 20 episodes, but if you want to skip through season one (a totally defensible option), watch episodes one, three, six, nine, and 10, before watching all of season two.
Hell, since Cersei is so un-nostalgic that she left Casterly Rock empty, maybe she'll even flee to a more defensible position, as far as possible from the Great War up north.
"Seven courts across the country have considered this so-called plan, and seven courts have recognized that there is no defensible reason to bar transgender Americans from serving our nation," Schmid said.
Hyten advocated for making satellites more defensible, but he acknowledged that there are currently no rules of engagement when it comes to military conflict in space, adding that international norms are needed.
By adopting the conservative position, Obama not only compromised the impact but also created a program that was much less popular and defensible than a bolder solution with a larger government role.
With Mr. Finicum driving his truck straight at an F.B.I. agent at one point, the two mystery shots appeared to be just as defensible as the other six shots, the officials said.
If it is morally defensible, tech companies should have nothing to fear from discussions of the human rights implications of their work, whether that discussion happens in the boardroom or public square.
Submitting simply to make his own life easier is far less defensible, especially for a man like Daryl, whose staunch moral code is rivaled only by his terminal lack of self-worth.
He drew a cold but defensible conclusion: The growth of the Islamic State was a direct threat to American interests that merited a military response, but President Bashar al-Assad was not.
"Dear Twitter, if you want me to see tweets of people I follow that I might have missed, that's defensible," tweeted Jonah Goldberg, a conservative author and editor at the National Review.
That may reflect the fact that 40 percent of its online sales are picked up at over 2,200 stores, giving it a potentially defensible mix of e-commerce and bricks and mortar.
Warren's argument on the tax issue — that voters are concerned about overall costs, and that any tax increase would be offset because there would be no private insurance premiums — is logically defensible.
The current vogue for rhetoric about "fighting dirty" is dangerous because it risks further destabilizing the political system but also because it risks discrediting ideas that are perfectly defensible on the merits.
Though the experiment was ethically defensible — all the embryos were unviable because of a fatal defect — it also demonstrated the possible dangers of the technique because of the many things that went wrong.
Sure, universal healthcare might be a defensible policy, but it needs a better defense than the simplistic one he gave: Finishing what Obamacare started and having a public option is a good plan.
To protect its business, the startup has patented the whole process of cooking food in ovens while a vehicle is moving (the patent probably gives Zume defensible intellectual property, says one patent lawyer).
That makes some conceptual sense, but also means that rental subsidy bills like Booker's and Harris's might be particularly likely to cut poverty as measured by SPM compared to other, equally defensible metrics.
In a way, however, the business of users cars is as old as cars itself, and it seems that what Beepi was doing was not as defensible as it hoped it would be.
Look no further than his fully ridiculous Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act, which seeks to overhaul a key feature of online communications, in the worst way and for the least-defensible reason.
You could argue that in the modern history of consumer tech products, the only products that have built a defensible advantage without establishing a network were backed by extraordinary institutional knowledge/resources — e.g.
None of these outcomes would be defensible on their own terms, but might be worth it for humankind considering the plausible alternative where he becomes Donald Trump's third or fourth national security adviser.
He also wrote a blog post that week stating his belief that the death penalty was not morally defensible -- though his lawsuit points out that he did not argue it was legally indefensible.
Jonathan Eyal of RUSI, a London-based think-tank, reckons that there is "no escape" from tripwire deterrence, which worked for 40 years of the cold war when West Berlin was never defensible.
Not because I think The Times's coverage was flawless — it wasn't — but because it strikes me as fair and defensible to assert that this matter is a distraction, an unwanted nuisance, for Clinton.
Zipline's vertically integrated model makes it a more defensible business than many start-ups at which venture capitalists throw money, but its logistics expertise will keep it on the radar of larger companies.
According to the various voices in the great Halloween costume debate, such an outfit could be read as unforgivable racism, trolling, a defensible exercise of free speech or a flight of youthful satire.
Voting with the conservative block might be a hard pill to swallow, but if Ginsburg follows her own logic and Supreme Court precedent, she has a defensible route to side with New Jersey.
And on the earnings call, my first earnings call, we alluded to the fact that we had this patent, we were really excited about it [and] we felt that it really was defensible.
There's a new realization among some of the companies that their approach to date may no longer be defensible, says Charlotte Stanton of the Carnegie Endowment, who convened the previously unreported June meeting.
Some of these Supreme Court decisions rested on a defensible reading of the Arbitration Act's text, but many of them distorted that text so severely that it is easy to suspect bad faith.
That may reflect the fact that 40 percent of its online sales are picked up at more than 2,200 stores, giving it a potentially defensible mix of e-commerce and bricks and mortar.
For example, the Emmys over-embraced Modern Family, certainly, but they always seemed a little skeptical of Glee in the major categories (outside of Jane Lynch's performance) — and I think that's largely defensible.
San Diego, which experienced a severe wildfire in 2003, has identified over 40,000 houses that are at high risk of fire and requires property owners to maintain a "defensible space" clearance around their home.
A policy like that would fit smoothly through the 51-vote reconciliation process, and it will satisfy an angry party seeking the fastest, most defensible path to restoring the Affordable Care Act's coverage gains.
A Bright Idea Among Wall Street's European Pay Disclosures | JPMorgan Chase's policy of canceling bonuses if a group's long-term returns are not met could make pay more defensible, Dominic Elliott writes in Breakingviews.
Environmental groups accused EPA of dragging its feet on setting a more stringent threshold but Wheeler said at a press conference that it needs to make sure a new proposed limit is legally defensible.
In the two cases involving Goldman and its executives, there was no "right" or "wrong" decision to be made because the evidence of violations was equivocal, so choosing not to proceed is certainly defensible.
"It will be much more straightforward and legally defensible to say 'we're going to do a demonstration on the following drug' where we want to figure out whether this will actually work," Hyman said.
Less defensible: a show which dilates on men's sexual and romantic needs with female characters only present to enable them; a story of a misanthropic schlub who lands a smart, beautiful lady, just because.
But whether or not an All of the Above energy strategy may have been defensible five or 10 years ago, today the need for limits on extraction—including natural gas—is plainer than ever.
The energy industry has broadly supported Trump's agenda, and Kathleen Sgamma, the president of the industry-funded Western Energy Alliance, said Bernhardt's background will help advance Trump's "ambitious" proposals in a "legally defensible" way.
"I'm in favor of the categorical exclusion as it pertains to improving defensible space and lessening the threat from forest fires hitting populated areas," said Bob Roper, the retired Ventura County, California fire chief.
Mick Mulvaney, the president's budget director, said at a news conference on Thursday that President Trump had "completely defensible" reasons for wanting to "defund" the two endowments, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
On one side of that debate: educators and parents who argue that the no-excuses approach is not only defensible, but the only way to solve racial and class inequities in schools and beyond.
I will say this: It's more defensible than putting a latte in your avocado, I guess, though I resent that I live in a world where I have to make that judgment call at all.
Republican election lawyers expect it to be challenged, even if it is legally defensible as long as the staff working out of the offices are paid by the RNC and not by the Trump campaign.
His decision not to disclose the fact that Mr Trump's team was also under investigation, even as the scandal over Mrs Clinton's e-mails raged, was another service to the president, albeit a defensible one.
Less defensible reasons are mere inertia or, even worse, the belief on the part of a few judges that cumbersome formal language is needed to give jurors a sense of the majesty of the law.
Beginning with Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments — who invented and patented the integrated circuit (IC) in 22019 — the semiconductor industry limited competition with a thick barrier of licenses based on defensible intellectual property (IP) rights.
And that could be more defensible to take aim at, whereas this seems pretty minimal to what they could have done — making it all the more remarkable this still has a target on its back.
But he said he believed that sticking with Sabathia in the third inning of Game 4, when the Red Sox built a 3-0 lead, was a defensible move that just did not work out.
After forcing you to consider for 80 minutes whether your civics class enthusiasm for the Constitution is still defensible, Ms. Schreck then introduces a 20-minute coda that includes a live debate on the subject.
While Mr. Barr would not disclose any discussions with Mr. Trump over the health care law, he said that he would follow the wishes of the president so long as his request was legally defensible.
Detective Neve's lawyer, James Moschella, said, "These are very defensible cases and Detective Neve looks forward to the entire story coming out, at the end of which we are confident she'll be found not guilty."
Referring to one front-line town, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Yuri Kasyanov, told Radio Free Europe on Tuesday, "The defenders of Avdiivka preferred to advance the line" to a more defensible position.
When he was first identified as a Qaeda operative, his case prompted a debate within the U.S. government over whether it was morally and legally defensible to kill an American citizen overseas without a trial.
"If you don't think that turning away people who are seeking a safe haven, from unspeakable brutality, is a morally defensible idea, then you're not the one who is less than a real American," said Sorkin.
"Taiwan has a professional military, with a strong core of American-trained experts," said Ian Easton, author of "The Chinese Invasion Threat" and research fellow at the Project 2049 Institute, as well as "highly defensible" terrain.
The positive direction of U.S. markets is defensible when you look at the underlying health of the U.S. corporate sector rather than focus on politics, according to the CEO of asset management firm Principal Global Investors.
Critics have argued that Fortnite emotes are unethically divorcing dances from their original context and erasing the work of artists (particularly black artists, who have filed the majority of these lawsuits) even if they're legally defensible.
Last week, Newsom vetoed AB 25.4, which would have required homeowners to clear a "defensible space" around their property, saying that it "takes a broad swath" approach that does not reflect the needs of individual communities.
In the Saviors saga, the 32-episode focus on Negan was excruciating, and knowing the season length is historically a product of the show's massive ratings made it even less defensible since those ratings have plummeted.
But a defensible immigration policy has to consider the large scale and longer term consequences of migration — not only the impact it has on the receiving society, but also the incentive effect on potential future migrants.
Vince Montemaggiore, who manages the $5.3 billion Fidelity Overseas Fund, said that he remains overweight on companies "with a defensible moat" that focus on the British domestic economy, while remaining underweight on Europe as a whole.
That was one of the big questions of the Y Combinator interview, where the firm probed Piggy as to how it was going to focus directly on user experience and growth to make the app defensible.
If she strongly disagreed with the policies underlying the order, she should have resigned in protest, and left it to others within the Justice Department to defend those parts of the order that are legally defensible.
In the short term, the White House should direct FDA to stop its efforts to regulate animals using the new animal drug paradigm and instead devise a regulatory approach that is scientifically defensible and risk-based.
In a liberal democracy, we don't need to resolve many difficult questions of individual morality in order to have defensible public policies — policies that are justified by our commitment to democratic decision making, liberty and equality.
Even if you reject what they stood for (and it's clear we both do), conservative intellectuals from the past — people like Milton Friedman or Friedrich Hayek — at least had a coherent, defensible view of the world.
And it's also a way to sidestep a national conversation about the merits of universal infertility coverage, which would include bigger questions, like whether bringing more children into an overpopulated, globally warming world is morally defensible.
Ross Douthat In my Sunday column I raised the possibility that a vote for Marine Le Pen in next weekend's French presidential runoff might be more defensible than was a vote for Donald Trump in 2016.
Inclusive Communities Project, have said the act prohibits not only intentional segregation, but also policies and practices whose effect is to discriminate for no defensible reason, even if there is no evidence of a racial motive.
Because the gesture captures the reality that the Democrats, in their zeal, are moving toward the most mystical, the least scientifically defensible, of possible positions on fetal personhood — one that only a special revelation could support.
Even so, the following seems like a defensible nonpartisan, guild-free takeaway from the current state of knowledge: Labor enjoys 85033 percent of the benefit of a corporate tax reduction give or take 45 percentage points.
But borrowing at ultralow interest rates to pay for investments in the future — infrastructure, of course, but also things like nutrition and health care for the young, who are the workers of tomorrow — is very defensible.
That is a far more defensible position than Comey now finds himself in — having to explain why he potentially tipped a presidential race based on what may well turn out to be nothing at all new.
Again, by starting with acquired companies for which Crunchbase has relatively complete funding records, the resulting set of 225 M&A events, while small, is more likely to produce a more robust and defensible set of findings.
Asked on Wednesday at a Berlin news conference for her view on the deal, Merkel described the cuts - softer than those demanded by some EU countries - as "defensible", partly because of the scope for later revising them.
Facing that kind of future, it may have made sense for a company like Smart Host to wrap up its business and slot it into a larger startup that has a better shot at creating something defensible.
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It's an upsetting end for fans who have given the dystopian Hulu drama roughly 13 hours of their life this summer; for fans who realize this is June's third, and least defensible, failed attempt at fleeing Gilead.
The information gathered from both large and smaller companies, Shekerdemian argues, transforms into a kind of defensible data set that — one which it's been gathering for years — that can allow it to perform higher quality candidate matching.
This drama of ethics, orchestrated by Wells and celebrated by hardline crime fighters, had begun to confirm my most comfortable prejudice: that we all lack the seriousness to make defensible life-and-death decisions in noncombat situations.
" And the 2012 Republican platform supported Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state with secure, defensible borders while also envisioning  "two democratic states – Israel with Jerusalem as its capital and Palestine — living in peace and security.
Republicans don't have a single, defensible vision for the future of American health care policy, but they know it shouldn't be a future in which the government provides insurance to as many people as it does today.
But that means it also has to build a defensible data set for the company that makes it able to outmaneuver other competitors like Trunk Club, and that requires a lot of feedback from its user base.
Plus, given that the beads are made of material that's "darn close to ubiquitous in the environment," Field added, she sees "a defensible distinction" between her organization's approach and efforts to, say, inject chemicals into the atmosphere.
To get to a point where it feels at all defensible for these two women to be killed in such horrible fashion involves wading so deep into the subtext as to end up in over your head.
"I know that Chairman Neal is focused on this, but he wants to ensure whatever he does is done in a way that will be completely defensible and doesn't create more of a circus atmosphere," said Rep.
That system is O.K., or at least defensible, as a way to reward innovation; but nothing about the logic of the patent system says that patent owners should be free to exploit their monopolies to the max.
This year, the State Department's least defensible decisions involved excluding Myanmar, Iraq and Afghanistan from an auxiliary list of countries banned under a special law from certain American military assistance because their armed forces recruited child soldiers.
That's a defensible position -- that Trump behaved inappropriately and needs to be penalized by the House for it, but that the question of whether Trump should be removed from office is better left to voters next November.
You could even argue it's a defensible "zag" as modern defenses "zig" to encourage less efficient two-point shots, if he continues to do as good a job as he's done making sure those looks are clean.
My take — what Ezra Klein concluded in his recent piece on reconciliation and health care — is that even in terms of norm-busting, abusing reconciliation seems less defensible than simply restoring majority rule by scrapping the filibuster.
It was a bizarre and telling moment, in which the battered forces of the Republican establishment finally picked themselves up off the floor specifically in order to defend some of its least defensible conduct of the 21st century.
Do you think Thiel's strategy of using his billions to back a potentially endless number of lawsuits that will crush Gawker beneath legal fees and judgments will go unnoticed by other plutocrats with less defensible vendettas and targets?
As more and more states decrease penalties for possession or make marijuana legal and regulated for adults, it becomes less defensible to continue saddling marijuana consumers with lifelong criminal records and the collateral consequences that come with them.
But maybe — and this is my theory, not Toobin's — Giuliani wanted to make his initial remarks seem defensible, given that he was widely beaten up in the press for having made a startling admission in the first place.
"In Silicon Valley, the general investment thesis for a technology investor tends to be around how strong a company's underlying technology is and how defensible it will be over time," Will Poole, Unitus Seed's co-founder, explained later.
"My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts," she wrote.
He approached cases not as a philosopher ready to slot each issue into a doctrinal or theoretical cubbyhole, but as a judge charged with reaching the fairest, most defensible decision in the particular case in front of him.
This is a defensible choice, albeit one with a clear trade-off: The Syrian civil war continued unabated; more people have died; and the Assad regime, with direct Russian military aid, has steadily reconquered large swaths of the country.
Opinions differ on Elliott's chances: Dutch law explicitly grants shareholders the right to call an EGM, though the court may decide Akzo boards' decisions have been defensible and there is no need for a meeting to consider Burgmans' dismissal.
Will the new team recognize the value of an enormously dedicated career staff with countless years of expertise in numerous fields -- expertise critical to designing new policy initiatives that will be legally defensible and stand the test of time?
" In a statement to reporters, Croman's defense lawyer, Benjamin Brafman—who also represents the vilified "Pharma Bro," Martin Shkreli—said, "The charges in this case are defensible, and Mr. Croman intends to address all issues in a responsible fashion.
She says she is running on "economic populism," but has been criticized as cozy with Wall Street and Silicon Valley donors, and on Monday, she evaded a question on CNN about whether the existence of billionaires was morally defensible.
But some Europe and Russia analysts say the modest scope of the Shannon–Ryabkov negotiations was defensible given the objective of resolving smaller sticking points with the goal of working more productively on issues of more significant geopolitical import.
"The foreign policy of the United States has become detached from any defensible conception of U.S. interests and from a decent respect for the rights and dignity of humankind," the institute argues in the initial statement on its website.
By pulling the I'm-taking-my-ball-and-going-home move, he took what would never have made it to the national news and turned it into all-day fodder for cable TV. His townhall meeting is more defensible.
The closed cases are likely to set off a debate over whether Russia's schemes were so successful in destroying evidence that defensible cases cannot be built against some athletes, or whether officials have taken a soft approach to punishments.
After chastising Obama-thwarting Republicans, he says he's puzzled by Democrats whose "highest priority in the Trump years" seems to be "thwarting this president" (before conceding that the president is "such an outlier" that blocking him may be "defensible").
Until now, the hosts have been subjected to the programming of human keepers and the whims of human guests, so any action they've taken outside of their loops could be considered a defensible part and consequence of their awakening.
This was not because the Ose itself was so obviously defensible—it was still just a prototype, few people had tried it—but because the views of the Consumer Technology Association, which puts on CES, seemed so perniciously outdated.
The big one first: It is perfectly defensible to pick one approach to investing — such as loading up on value stocks, companies with solid revenues, earnings and dividends that are trading at a relatively low price — over all others.
But the Republican Party is too divided on health care, too incompetently "led" by its president, and too confused about the details of health policy to do something that's big and sweeping and also smart and decent and defensible.
"He understands how the regulatory process works and the type of effort that is required to develop effective and legally defensible regulatory reforms," said Jeff Holmstead, a partner at industry-focused law firm Bracewell and a former EPA air administrator.
Pummeled by air strikes, artillery and ground attacks, the rebels were forced on Monday to withdraw to more defensible lines along a highway that runs through Aleppo, hoping that it would be harder for the government side to make further gains.
"My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts," she said in a letter.
On the other hand, there is clearly something remarkable and even morally defensible about riding an elevator down through layers of the earth into an oddly colored dreamscape, a place that blurs the boundaries between the real and the inorganic.
The decisive vote came from Justice Anthony Kennedy, to this day the court's centre of gravity, who rejected each of the liberals' proposals but refused to give up hope that one day, in another case, a defensible line might be found.
The foundation to creating growth within any company of any size is to deeply understand your market and your customers' needs, and then be able to build something faster, more delightful, and more defensible than what your competition is doing.
But as well as the grim aspects of his career—his ownership of slaves and support for the forced relocation of native Americans—his approach to the public finances, though intellectually defensible, makes his use on a note singularly ironic.
Nevertheless, this nostalgia does seem more defensible when you view it in light of the second problem facing the evolution of global governance, the one brought to us by elites: Like governance in general, global governance is sometimes done badly.
"Maybe the adviser will be providing planning services beyond what the client can get in the 401(k) - that's defensible," said Jason Roberts, chief executive officer of the Pension Resource Institute, a consulting firm that works with advisory and brokerage firms.
" On DOJ defending Trump in emoluments cases: "It is the responsibility of the Department of Justice to defend the office of the presidency in carrying out its duties against charges that are not deemed meritorious…We believe this is defensible.
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These and other of Trump's actions will improve the coal industries' fortunes, but they will offer fleeting respite unless he goes further and in a legally defensible way withdraws EPA's finding human carbon-dioxide emissions are a danger to human health.
Production from existing coal leases can supply the nation's coal needs through 85033; there is no defensible reason to abandon the programmatic review process that is underway and immediately return to leasing coal for new, 20-year terms at deflated valuations.
For example, a large, national insurer has recently decided to make one antidepressant an "excluded benefit" regardless of a patient's history of previously failed drugs or intolerable side effects from the "covered" treatment options – without a defensible explanation or medical rationale.
To convince the reader that there is no scientifically valid or ethically defensible foundation for the project of assigning group differences in complex behavior to genetic and environmental causes, I have to move the discussion in an even more uncomfortable direction.
Though the Justice Department generally defends the law in any challenges to it, Mr. Barr indicated he was willing to make an exception in a case where the president asked for something different so long as it was legally defensible.
One obvious drawback of this mind-set — a gut-level inclination toward the hyperbolic exercise of power — is that it makes winning purely about imposing your will on reality, rather than, say, reaching an outcome that's actually desirable or defensible.
"There is no defensible reason to wait until his book is published, when the information he has to offer is critical to the most important decision senators must now make — whether to convict the president of impeachable offenses," the managers added.
"There is no defensible reason to wait until his book is published, when the information he has to offer is critical to the most important decision Senators must now make — whether to convict the President of impeachable offenses," it added.
In one sense, it's hard to fault the creatures that have resulted from our biotechnological experimentation — we have done unto them as we typically do unto ourselves and the results are not in any sense defensible from an ethical perspective.
Nowhere is the thought that Barack Obama ran a better campaign, that his unique personal history, his vision for America, was somehow more in tune with the 21st century electorate, or that the American people had made even a defensible choice.
Hogan's position would be defensible if you interpret what he's saying very narrowly: Neither Mueller's 22-month investigation nor the Senate Intelligence Committee's own two-year inquiry found any evidence that any votes Americans cast on Election Day were changed by Russian hackers.
She points to the fact that Facebook, which owns Instagram, hasn't been able to make e-commerce work in Asia, while the simplicity of Rewardsnap and its connection to the Goxip service, makes it highly defensible even as Instagram ups its shopping game.
We believe TSLA's ability to iterate its solution is a material advantage and if its technology performs as guided, it will have a defensible cost advantage in EV/automous vehicles even as it works through financing details over the next few years.
"I personally believe that cash incentives paid to WIC recipients for breastfeeding can 'level the playing field' with respect to money spent by WIC on the mother-child couple and that they are ethically defensible and socially responsible," Furman writes in the editorial.
In fact, arguably, it's the banking and regulatory relationships, underpinned by GoCardless' anti-fraud and anti-money laundering 'secret sauce' — which sees it on-board new customers and maintain ongoing checks in a relatively automated fashion — that makes the company's offering fairly defensible.
It is therefore interesting to observe that many explanations of the apparently consequential differences between race and gender—that is, the differences that bear on why gender transitioning is defensible, whereas race transitioning is not—explicitly point to fixed or verifiable biological realities.
That, in turn, would also give Mr. Trump a defensible answer for why, after months of railing against Wall Street executives and special interests, he recently turned to a former Goldman Sachs executive, Steven Mnuchin, to corral large checks for his campaign.
The comments are a blunt — but defensible — description of the Senate bill, which maintains some of the structure of President Obama's signature Affordable Care Act as it relates to the individual insurance market, and many of its regulations governing health care in general.
Many homes with adequate (or excessive) defensible space have still burned to the ground because embers have entered through attic vents, ignited flammable materials around the home (litter in the gutter, wood stacks, wood fencing), or found their way under roofing materials.
But some of our weather has changed significantly, and now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has outlined a rigorous, defensible, science-based system of extreme weather attribution to determine which events are tied to climate change.
Monsanto could have difficulty getting the verdict thrown out on those grounds, according to some legal experts who said the judge carefully considered whether to allow Johnson's scientific evidence under California law and reached a defensible conclusion that the jury should hear it.
Pinterest benefits from already having a massive well of high-quality photos from both users and businesses, and it can lean on that content as a kind of defensible dataset that might not be available to other companies going after image recognition.
This lack of urgency on testing is defensible only if one accepts the administration's political narrative: The disease comes from China, so if we cut off travel from China, surveil for cases linked to China, and see none, we must be succeeding.
There is no defensible reason as to why patients within the IHS still have less than half the per capita health spending of the general U.S. population to address the health inequities that have been repeatedly documented by data and presented to Congress.
"My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts," Yates wrote in a letter to Justice Department lawyers.
"It's kind of difficult for me to articulate in a defensible way why the Fyre Festival as it was going on was such a fascination, and why I'm probably going to drop like 200 dollars on something I'm never going to wear," he said.
Some officials weren't pleased with the way the Department of Justice rounded up immigrants after 9/11 — but they certainly didn't declare, publicly, that they didn't find the policy defensible, as Acting Attorney General Sally Yates did (and got fired for) on Monday night.
At the Playlist, Jessica Kiang called the movie "repulsive, toxic trash": In the past, Von Trier has been defensible on the grounds of his undeniable filmmaking talent and because so much of his nihilism clearly sprang from a place of intense personal pain and depression.
Should Trump lose on Election Day, though, many Republicans will want to say "I told you so" and turn the page on the Trump experiment, returning to a more generic Republicanism that they see as a better vote-getter and a more substantively defensible ideology.
In July, however, a federal judge in Manhattan, Jed S. Rakoff, of United States District Court, ruled that such restrictions on the so-called cosmetic procedures were not legally defensible, but wanted a trial for the issue of whether treatment for youths was medically necessary.
But Hungary points to a different scenario: a series of changes to electoral rules and laws imposed over time that might individually be defensible but in combination with corruption and demagogic populism creates a new system — one that appears democratic but functionally is not.
In Detroit, this has taken the form of waiving Josh Smith, a move imminently defensible from a purely basketball standpoint, but far less so from the financial side, given that the Pistons will be paying Smith over $5.3 million per season until 2019/20.
" That same year, Qualcomm announced a plan to create stronger wireless coverage by "implanting tiny base-stations into wolf-pigeon hybrids that would fly around, but also be self-defensible, form packs when needed, and go out as 'lone wolves' to areas without coverage.
But if CNN's angle is the right one, then BuzzFeed's decision to publish them looks significantly more defensible, and boosts Smith's argument that the public deserved to be able to inspect something that was in wide circulation among both top government officials and the media.
Mr. McGahn's concerns about Mr. Trump's letter show how much he realized that the president's rationale for firing Mr. Comey might not hold up to scrutiny, and how he and other administration officials sought to build a more defensible public case for his ouster.
These include installing fire-resistant roofing, ember-proof exterior vents and guards to prevent wind-borne embers from igniting dry leaves and pine needles in rain gutters and creating "defensible space" by reducing combustible grasses, shrubs and small trees within 100 feet of homes.
For example, if the child's neighbor has a family member who has come down with the virus, but the child has had no contact with anyone in the neighbor's household, is it defensible to insist that he/she not travel to the other parent's home?
The closed cases are very likely to set off a debate in the sports world over whether Russia's schemes were so successful in destroying evidence that defensible cases cannot be built against some athletes, or whether officials have taken a soft approach to punishments.
Jerry Brown chief among them — see with clarity that our only defensible path forward involves the end of Nimby resistance to change and the mass construction of denser housing and public transit guided by enlightened city planning to create a more livable and sustainable future.
"My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts," Yates said in a letter explaining her decision.
Grim conditions in detention camps on the Mexican border are pristine compared to Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, and downright cushy compared to the "black" rendition sites of our allies in 2002; that doesn't make border conditions defensible, but there is a material distinction that matters.
"A new Republican HEA will likely cement some protections and reforms that should make the for-profit sector more defensible against future, more hostile administrations and thus more investible," Credit Suisse research analysts Trace Urdan and Jeffrey Lee wrote in a note Friday morning.
He sees these set of facts that everything that Hillary Clinton did, all of these decisions that the prosecutors made and the FBI made, that fell down in her favor and helped protect her, they all were perfectly defensible and he couldn&apost second guess them.
It's by far the least-defensible thing he's done over the course of the series—even though he's doing it for Kim, his action is still an out-and-out deception, something that will hurt several other people at HHM in addition to Chuck and Howard.
My parents have always cut back the manzanita and scotch broom to maintain Cal Fire's recommended 100 feet of "defensible space" around their homes (though as they get older they hire others to do most of the work), but we never were part of a communal effort.
There are concrete steps individual citizens can take to become more firewise in general: Get the gunk out of gutters, clear defensible no-brush space around your house, keep wood piles and propane a few dozen feet away, screen all openings so embers don't sneak in.
They may have had roots in the left of the '60s, but all responded to the rise of the right by fashioning a Democratic politics that is often defined, for perfectly defensible political reasons, by ensuring that they don't provoke a massive backlash from the right.
In a sense, he thought that revolution had already been made, in the state-building of the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and World War II. All that was necessary was to turn its considerable reserves of power and solidarity toward truly defensible aims—just ones.
Lesson: the existence and rising quality of Shanzhai products is both good and bad news for startups: it means the supply chain is getting better even at the lowest levels; yet, it also means the bar to building a defensible startup is getting higher and higher. 5.
"We need to get back to reasonable, defensible level of service reliability, where customers can rely on the subway service, can expect not to be delayed," said Andy Byford, who has been president of New York City Transit, which runs the subway and public buses, since January.
It is defensible to wish for people like Walsh to run against Trump if it might weaken his reelection campaign (though it should be acknowledged that this is basically the same logic that led various liberals to encourage Trump to run in the GOP primaries in 2016).
One of the more interesting things about the company's trajectory, according to a blog post by early General Assembly investor Jason Stoffer, a partner at Maveron, is that its premium brand as a coding school wasn't actually enough to build a defensible "moat" in its business.
If a candidate who describes himself as a people person in a job interview is simultaneously posting overtly bigoted comments on a Twitter or Facebook account that's visible to everyone on the Internet, that's a defensible reason (legally and morally) for not making him your new sales representative.
Legally, it's a little weird to cite the case against DAPA as evidence that DACA is unconstitutional; while the Fifth Circuit's decision in that case was pretty harsh on DACA, it also took pains to distinguish the two programs in a way that made DACA seem more defensible.
If the Red Sox traded for another starting pitcher to help them in their race with the Orioles and the Blue Jays, that would be understandable; if they traded Yoan Moncada or Andrew Benintendi for him, even that might be defensible if the pitcher was, say, Chris Sale.
This vision of a stingier matching formula is defensible — some experts feel the current formula leads to overinvestment in new highway projects with little transportation value — but the White House's notion that it will lead to an actual surge in state and local infrastructure spending is difficult to support.
But you're absolutely right that Dickey was underappreciated here, and I think you've hit on the key thing that makes the deal a whole lot more defensible than it maybe has felt at times, and that's the fact that Dickey fit the timeline so much better than Syndergaard did.
The automatic, unquestioning support of Israel by the old establishment of American Jews has hurt both sides, and implicated the Jewish world in each one of Israel's less defensible actions: each child shot and killed in Gaza, every detainee spending years without charges or trial in Israeli jails.
" The net effect of Chevron deference is that "when the Executive Branch chooses a weak (but defensible) interpretation of a statute, and when the courts defer … every relevant actor may agree that the agency's legal interpretation is not the best, yet that interpretation carries the force of law.
"My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but it is informed by our best view of what the law is after all consideration of the facts," she said in a letter laying out her order to DOJ officials.
As a matter of law, this decision to delay the election is defensible, and there is no evidence that Acton or DeWine acted in bad faith — their efforts to postpone the election appear to be motivated by a genuine desire to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
"If you wrote a piece saying, 'I think Trump is a buffoon and he's reckless, and he doesn't really know that much, and he's kind of the accidental President, and he plays upon people's fears in order to gain power'—I'd say, Yeah, O.K., that's totally defensible," he said.
Keller, a former PayPal product director who later bought a grocery store, realized that if he can persuade these business owners to use a mobile app that helps them manage their procurement, he can make their lives easier, as well as more defensible against companies like Amazon and Walmart.
As a matter of ethics and equality, this should be O.K.; sticking with a system that is the source of so much death, debt and financial ruin just because you like your doctor or your insurance company or your medical-billing job is not really a defensible position.
If he launches the kind of limited operations suggested by the memo, he would hand Clinton instead of the current calamity a policy that has the potential for putting Syria on track for a possible solution, and would have the added benefit of being more defensible on the campaign trail.
Even if landlords only look at convictions, rejecting any applicant guilty of any crime — "no matter when the conviction occurred, what the underlying conduct entailed, or what the convicted person has done since then" – is no longer considered defensible, since not all ex-cons pose a risk to property or safety.
"Unfortunately, despite Samira going through a lengthy and frustrating internal process in the hope that a sensible solution could be achieved, the BBC has not resolved this case, and it will now be for the tribunal to determine whether this monumental pay gap is appropriate and defensible," Ms. Stanistreet said.
Because while elected GOP officials have almost totally capitulated to Trump's hostile takeover of their party, there is always a point at which you simply cannot look even quasi-objectively at the actions of this president and conclude that standing behind him remains the right (or even defensible) thing to do.
"NAIJ is working diligently to fight the implementation of any 'numeric based performance measures' on judges, and ensure that any future standards that may be imposed on judges or the Immigration Courts are legally defensible, fair, and would not encroach on our independent decision making authority," Tabaddor wrote in January.
The original series pushed us into strange and uncomfortable places, daring us to keep rooting for Walt even as his actions got less and less defensible, shocking us with the sheer depravity of his behavior, confronting us with the collateral damage of his ego (including literally everything that happens to Jesse).
Biden is arguing that the US needs to cut down its troop presence and focus more narrowly on fighting potential terrorist threats to the US homeland rather than the overall Taliban insurgency — a defensible position that, as Biden's notes, he's been advocating since the Obama administration: But here's the point.
This vision of a stingier matching formula is defensible — some experts feel that the current formula leads to over-investment in new highway projects with little transportation value — but the White House's notion that it will lead to an actual surge in state and local infrastructure spending is difficult to support.
What Trump is suggesting — or at least what his words suggest, because I wouldn't venture to speculate about what he actually meant — is that the fundamental features of a country include defensible borders and a priority for its citizens, for members of that political community over people who are not members.
"Unfortunately, despite Samira going through a lengthy and frustrating internal process in the hope that a sensible solution could be achieved, the BBC has not resolved this case, and it will now be for the tribunal to determine whether this monumental pay gap is appropriate and defensible," Stanistreet said, according to the Times.
WASHINGTON — President Obama is close to a decision on a Supreme Court nominee based purely on qualifications and experience, White House officials insisted on Monday, but the president's allies said that political considerations — including whether a nominee had an easily defensible record or appeal to Republicans — were clearly part of Mr. Obama's calculus.
Looking at a chart, Sean O'Leary, one of EdjAnalytics's founders, noted how it's mathematically defensible for a team on its first possession of overtime to go for it on fourth-and-224 at its own 22-yard line; not that a coach, facing public pressure to adhere to football norms, ever would.
She said homeowners living in areas at risk of wildfires now need to think about "defensible space," because when you look at the structures that burned versus the structures that remained, having landscaped properly to remove fuel for the fire and using building materials that are fire-resistant made a big difference.
"Anyone who knows my teaching style recognizes that I encourage, nay, beg for, alternative viewpoints to my own to be expressed in class and I try to teach students, regardless of their views, how to express them in the most well-reasoned and defensible manner," he wrote in a Facebook post he emailed to Mashable.
Okubo noted that the BOJ's policy to weaken the yen was defensible back in 2012, when the yen was at nosebleed levels of a mere 80 to the U.S. dollar, but he added that continuing to guide the yen lower looked like a "beggar thy neighbour" currency policy to make Japan's exports more attractive.
But he speculates that if the administration thought it had more than one legally defensible option, it might decide to stop processing DACA applications that came from immigrants living in Hanen's district — or even to stop processing all applications from immigrants not living in the districts where the original pro-DACA injunctions were issued.
He said mentioning the ledger in an affidavit for its historical relationship to Manafort's firing and the start of the investigation might be defensible, but any effort to use the ledger to support probable cause would be "puzzling" since it clearly was not needed to strengthen either affidavit and only risked tainting the warrant.
"The issue with the wealthy is their desire to be with others like themselves, to congregate and assemble in defensible places where they feel safe, where they can spend their money as lavishly as they can without being confronted with what their wealth means," argued Richard Wolff, a Marxist economist based in New York.
As he told Sanneh in a recent profile: If you wrote a piece saying, 'I think Trump is a buffoon and he's reckless, and he doesn't really know that much, and he's kind of the accidental President, and he plays upon people's fears in order to gain power' — I'd say, Yeah, O.K., that's totally defensible.
"There is no defensible reason to wait until his book is published, when the information he has to offer is critical to the most important decision Senators must now make — whether to convict the President of impeachable offenses," the seven House impeachment managers who presented their case against Trump last week said in a statement.
The investigation isn't even defensible as a push to solidify US standing as the top producer of oil and natural gas, an economic goal the Trump administration has pursued with its efforts to make it easier to build oil pipelines and its troubled effort to open US shores and public lands to more oil exploration.
President Trump's actions do not change the fact that America seeks a two-state solution with defined and defensible borders with regard to an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and that we want what is in the best interests of the parties with regard to the administration of the city of Jerusalem and its holy sites.
Some members of Congress might split their votes -- likely with some members voting "yes" on Article I (Abuse of Power relating to Ukraine) but "no" on Article II (Obstruction of Congress), reasoning that Trump's defiance of congressional subpoenas is less serious or more defensible than his attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
He has pledged to keep moving his bill forward and I have pledged, as Chair of the Committee responsible for this policy area, that I will continue the policy conversation on SB 822 to make it a strong bill that is truly legally defensible and will ensure that Californians have the best shot at net neutrality protections.
But if you consider the 13 years of war that have wracked the country -- in which a quarter of a million have died -- and add that Saddam brutally repressed all dissent, including groups such as al Qaeda, and also add to this that ISIS is itself a fruit of the Iraq War, it's a far more defensible position.
As consumers and businesses demand more and more intelligent automation, smart investors and savvy founders will do well to remember that a startup's long-term ambitions depend not only on the product experience and underlying algorithms, but also on the unique data and model architectures that will make those startups valuable and defensible in the long term.
This reduces the impetus for protest to a conflict of interests between those who join or support this movement and those who resist it — as though all that were at stake were whether or not police are justified in being so terrified of an African-American teenager that shooting him in the back is a defensible preventive measure.
One can find the individual decision not to cook a meal for a Trumpista defensible or even admirable, but a general surge of activist harassment of Trump officials at restaurants or movie theaters or wherever is likely to only harden the president's support, while delivering little tangible benefit to the cause of removing him from office.
With the apparent "no collusion" conclusion to the Robert Mueller investigation, there will now be a retreat from this alternative reality to more defensible terrain — the terrain where Trump is a sordid figure who admires despots and surrounded himself with hacks and two-bit crooks while his campaign was buoyed by a foreign power's hack of his opponent.
The testosterone replacement therapy era—when athletic commissions gave their blessings to fighters who used performance-enhancing hormones so as long as they had doctors' notes—looks less and less defensible the further it sinks into the past, and Henderson has the dubious distinction of being a pioneer of TRT in MMA, having started the treatment in 2007 for a low-testosterone diagnosis.
A farm subsidy, a tariff, a targeted tax incentive, a restrictive approach to immigration: these may be defensible, he thought, not on narrowly economic grounds but as expressions of a country's determination to preserve its own ways of life, and as evidence of the fundamental principle that the citizenry has the right to ignore economic experts, especially when their track records are dubious.
As Congressman Kevin BradyKevin Patrick BradyRepublicans' rendezvous with reality — their plan is to cut Social Security The Social Security 2900 Act is critical for millennials and small business owners House panel releases documents of presidential tax return request before Trump MORE of Texas, the lead tax writer in the U.S. House of Representatives, has said, the current code is no longer defensible.
While it does include arguments opposing the regulatory rollback from groups including the Union of Concerned Scientists and the state of California, it does not contain what environmental experts say is the critical element of a legally strong justification for changing an E.P.A. regulation: Technical analysis of both sides of the argument leading to a conclusion aimed at persuading a judge that the change is defensible.
Republican senators are basically promising to start from scratch with their own health care bill, which could lead to anything from the Bill Cassidy-Susan Collins proposal to allow red states to use Obamacare money for non-Obamacare experiments while blue states keep things as they are, to an A.H.C.A. rewritten to make it reasonably defensible as policy and non-suicidal in its politics.
"The Department of Justice disregarded its own long-standing norms and practices in refusing to defend a readily defensible federal law and failing to urge the court to dismiss this case in the first place," said Jonathan H. Adler, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law who is no fan of the health care law but has questioned the current legal challenge, on Wednesday.
And that bring us to Vladeck's final point, which is perhaps the most important: When Trump says there's nothing wrong with taking information for a political campaign from a foreign government, he makes it sound OK. "That anyone thinks this kind of statement from the President of the United States is even remotely defensible is a sign of just how much he's corrupted our public discourse," said Vladeck.
While there are important differences between the two cases — Republicans have attacked the Affordable Care Act in the courts for years, while legal experts are debating whether the circumcision law is defensible — critics were troubled by what they fear is an emerging view inside the Justice Department that it is up to the Trump administration, not members of Congress, to decide whether a law has merit and should be enforced.
Frank Bruni The agony of Donald Trump — well, one of the many agonies — is that there are times when he will actually do the right thing, or at least a defensible thing, and we'll be left wondering, even more than we did with other presidents, about what his motivations were, whether they fit into any truly considered plan or whether his actions amount to the newest episode of a continuing reality show.

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