They built their castles with an eye to their defensibility.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Client complaints create a felt need for the defensibility of individual actions.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.    From Dictionary.com. 

Or at least what he did had an aura of defensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contrarian in Combat] Reference

New Orleans is at a bend in the River that optimizes defensibility and accessibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 22, 2006] Reference

The second is that they care about the moral defensibility of our lives, and practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Human Achievement Hour] Reference

Essentially, they must know what is the significance or defensibility of the technology underlying the idea?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microserfs]

Defenders of old books who generate the least coherent arguments may even achieve a local maxima of defensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The essential paradigm of cyberspace] Reference

I pick all my halfway houses for escape as well as defensibility and I do a lot of work on the properties late at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge] Reference

All America first applauded the act, then plunged into discussion of its legality as doubts began to arise of its defensibility -- and wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

The effect on the viewer, despite the defensibility of the filmmaker's intentions, is that one feels as though one is watching an action movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

The bottom line is that the DNC should have considered the defensibility of its decision to strike these contests before that decision was made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Douglas: The Democrats - Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory] Reference

Of course if you build an eBay-like feedback system that users can take with them to other sites, the defensibility problem appears to get worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A very early look at Edgeio] Reference

Ruins comprised in the second class are located on the bottom lands, generally at the base of a cliff, and without reference to the defensibility of the site.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference

Rivkin: Instead of defending the statute as Congress wrote it, they keep rewriting the statute to try to make it more palatable in terms of legal defensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commerce Clause Is Coming to Town] Reference

They are always close to the stream bed, seldom more than 10 or 12 feet above it, and the sites were chosen apparently without any reference to their defensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference

The issue is not about whether different types of creationists disagree on the age of the earth, but whether they disagree on the defensibility of biblical genocide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creationists for genocide - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Thomson's argument is often considered the most important, or at least the most influential, philosophical argument for the defensibility of certain kinds of abortions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference

A commenter on Rox's post about the Scalito Nomination had this to say in answer to Roxanne's question about the defensibility of SPOUSAL notification prior to abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: October 2005 Archives] Reference

To do so, IT must work together with the legal, compliance and risk departments to apply automation, defensibility, efficiencies and a best practices framework around e-discovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Managing E-mail Matters] Reference

Carthaginians, but previously took measures to insure the defensibility of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

The vendor can also testify on behalf of clients as to the defensibility of its data.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechWeb]

Preserve chain of custody information to ensure security, auditability and defensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Preserve chain of custody information to ensure security, auditability and defensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [CMSWire.com - All News] Reference

But its defensibility was practically all the crag fort had to offer by way of attraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rung Ho]

The EPA document said dealing with public health and welfare had "solid legal defensibility.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

Also, there is a degree of defensibility on misidentifying a camera slung over the shoulder of journalist for an AK-47.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

"Also, there is a degree of defensibility on misidentifying a camera slung over the shoulder of journalist for an AK-47".    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

This openness to contradiction can be a headache for Westerners who seek logical consistency and rational defensibility in their religious views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Monroe's Cabinet was divided in regard to the defensibility of Jackson's acts, but these acts probably helped to persuade Spain to sell while she could still get a price.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the United States] Reference

Slavery to have been a primitive Family institution, the acknowledgment is pregnant with an admission of the moral defensibility of Negro-servitude at the present moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference

We obviously disagree about Denby’s defensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yo, New Yorker: David Denby Has Gots to Go : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

(in vote share) not by one, but by two other parties, that would raise the in-defensibility to a totally different level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"safest" course, he meant safe for himself and his client, Anthony Blair, that is, he explained, in defensibility if challenged in court.    From Wordnik.com.  [iToot Stream] Reference

Allscripts 'additional products further strengthens claim validity and clinical defensibility for its customers. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Wire Travel News] Reference

II applications into Allscripts 'additional products further strengthens claim validity and clinical defensibility for its customers. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference