Is the idea tenable that the Creator has no comprehension of what is manifested in creation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Promulgation of Universal Peace] Reference
Still less is the notion tenable of any special improbability applying to this particular pretension. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
In which case, all I know is to state and establish the 'tenable' group's place ( 'tenets') and attract whoever comes to stand on it. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Some Truth For A Change] Reference
It was, indeed, not considered, to use a technical word, "tenable," and there was no rent to pay for living in it. From Wordnik.com. [Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales] Reference
It was impossible even to surmise a tenable theory. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
I doubt this scheme is tenable in its present form. From Wordnik.com. [Hisham Wyne: Dear Dubai, How About a Loyalty Scheme for Entreprenuers?] Reference
They were so sure their theory was the only tenable one. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Experts say none of it would be tenable without EU money. From Wordnik.com. [A Bridge To Nowhere] Reference
"Clearly this is not a tenable long-term situation," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Greece Hopes Confidence Follows Austerity, Papaconstantinou Says] Reference
But this view, if tenable then, has long since been abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
'Perhaps,' said Sir Edward, 'his lordship don't think it tenable.'. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
I should be glad of it, if it was tenable with my seat in Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
The molecular theory is, unquestionably, tenable under present conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Whether or not that view has ever been tenable, it is not so in a digital age. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
He promulgated theories about it that are all now absurd, however tenable then. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Inquiries were instituted, and showed that the hypothesis was at least tenable. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
No, that was not tenable because Nickleby would not be trying to steal from himself. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
She has seen that the affair is a little too deep for that, and the field not tenable. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But in a period of expensive oil, budget-busting fuel subsidies may no longer be tenable. From Wordnik.com. [Sby Feels The Heat] Reference
At any rate, the theory of the wholly beneficent nature of human instincts is not tenable. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
Winter was approaching; our positions on the peninsula would then become no longer tenable. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
And how tenable is that feeling of worthiness when your substitute is right around the corner?. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Ep 8: Battle of the Blondes] Reference
It no longer offers a tenable explanation; it is not a valuable or illuminating interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
For a long time education was defined in terms of intellect, but that ground is no longer tenable. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The wild geese are honking in V-shaped lines to an inland refuge for the white sea is no longer tenable. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Here the Van Cortlandt family found a safe asylum when the manor house on the Croton was no longer tenable. From Wordnik.com. [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference
(Pangenesis) requires so many subordinate hypotheses for its support, and that some of these are not tenable. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
This view of things is the only tenable attitude an officer or enlisted leader can take toward his subordinates. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
But I admit that the opposite view of forte and piano, contrived by registers of spinet-jacks, is equally tenable. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
Mitscherlich and Berzelius had ceased to be tenable in the presence of the new facts which we had brought to light. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The system is abundantly tenable on this ground alone; on this only ground that it will probably ever practically occupy. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
A fleet of gunboats joined the land batteries in bombarding the fort, and at last succeeded in making it no longer tenable. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
He was noted for his charity and munificence, and left large sums to the poor, and in scholarships tenable by natives of Durham. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
These views, however, were no longer tenable if our arts, philosophies and scientific attainments fail to civilize and refine us. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
He recognized that the Laplace hypothesis is not tenable except upon such an assumed distribution of matter as was defined by Fouche. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
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