tenability
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“The Carmichael Show” owes its title, its format and its tenability as mainstream sitcom to “The Cosby Show,” and the episode is completely aware of it.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2016
For months we’ve had fun doubting the tenability of Gallery Girl’s premise.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2012
But that answer is losing its political tenability, says John D. Donahue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2012
He was fully conscious, however, of the difficult nature of the position, and that it was only tenable on condition of being penetrated, or possessed, as he said, with the idea of its tenability.
From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by Eighth Earl of Elgin James
The tenability of these alternative positions has to be considered apart from the argument of the Aesthetic, for this, as we have seen, breaks down.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard
