| 词汇 | defensible |
| 释义 | defensible adjective uk /dɪˈfen.sə.bəl/ us /dɪˈfen.sə.bəl/(US alsodefendable) able to be protected from attack, or able to be supported by argument: 有防卫能力的;合乎情理的，有正当理由的 A city built on an island is easily defensible.建在岛上的城市容易防守。 High petrol taxes are defensible on ecological grounds.从保护生态环境的角度来讲，征收高额汽油税是有道理的。 Backing, supporting & defending adopt advocacy affirmation ally yourself to/with someone argumentation bail out bet buoy champion commitment flag-waving over-favour pander to someone/something prop something up provide provide for someone root solidly sustenance underpin defensible | American Dictionarydefensible adjective us/dɪˈfen·sə·bəl/ able to be supported by argument, esp. when criticized: He’s presenting a plan that is morally defensible and politically realistic. Examples of defensibledefensible Either specification is defensible, since both use plausible measures of democracy and a plausible set of control variables. It does not aim to reproduce existing categories of legal thought but to refashion them in the light of a defensible metaphysics or politics. They offer several ethically defensible solutions to the case by balancing respect for persons, honesty, and fairness. These volumes offer much substance for a defensible answer to this vital question. The elimination of the concept of truth is neither defensible in itself, nor is it required to defend pluralism. In other words, democratic responsibility requires that policy decisions are clearly defensible as being prudent and in the public interest. This position is not defensible if one is serious about using such theory as a foundation for scientific work on human behavior. Each budgetary approach offers a standard: the notion of a defensible standard of income adequacy for minimally acceptable living requirements for specified populations. First, the special duties are clearly defensible from a second-order impartialist stance. Before proceeding, my use of the term ' rationally defensible ' requires explanation. It may be a step towards globalisation and cosmopolitanism, or an attempt to rebuild social and political boundaries along a more easily defensible line. Perhaps some minimal and incontestable conditions placed on equality prove that the only defensible principle of equality is equivalent to maximin. Moreover, there seems no normatively defensible basis for exempting positive duties from the jurisdiction of legitimate legislation. If so, it is rationally defensible to fulfill condition 3a. This does not mean that it is rationally defensible for any person to adopt any religion at whim. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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