tenable

They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.

Employee dumping is when employers find it tenable to pay the per-employee penalty for not providing health insurance.

That does not mean it is practical, advisable, tenable, moral or that it should be perpetual.

On the other hand, an exclusive focus on satisfaction is not tenable either.

He was at length convinced by the arguments of his opponents that the corn-laws were no longer tenable.

The common theory, therefore, of the calculation of chances, appears to be tenable.

Neither the harbour nor the town was tenable any longer, and orders were given for the embarkation of the troops.

Our position in the fort was only tenable, provided the troops on our left held their position.

A theory which the author continued to regard as partially tenable.