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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For scientific theories to be considered tenable , they must survive refutation.
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Looking at the second proviso, we can see that the position was a cruel one, insincere and hardly tenable .
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Now, though so politically convenient a view is no longer tenable , no easy alternative presents itself.
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The conventional wisdom now holds that these measures softened and civilized capitalism and made it tenable .
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The notion of contrast between pain in a reality and pleasure in a representation is not tenable .
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University Studentships are tenable in all Faculties except Medicine.