Defensible

Another set of strategies and policies addresses the question: How to make more secure and defensible?

Palantir may not be a pure software company, but this does not necessarily mean they are not building a defensible and profitable business.

Thompson says property owners can also assist the effort to decrease fire risk by asking the architect they hire to include ignition-resistant construction in their design and the design of defensible space.

What’s less defensible is the repetitive nature of The Fall of the House of Usher‘s episodes, nearly all of which follow the same set of plot beats.

Both Klaver, the retired FBI agent, and Higgins, the former New Jersey police chief, agreed that it was defensible to wait until morning to begin a thorough search of the area given the safety concerns.

Cricket killed a neighbor’s chickens and “whipped around to bite” Noem when she intervened; therefore, by Noem’s logic, her killing of Cricket was legally defensible.

Families like the Armstrongs and Nixons led the assaults, forcing people to build defensible tower houses for protection.

He fought the ideal rearguard action to give a strong Australian attack a defensible total on a Leeds pitch that offered them handy assistance.

Home hardening and defensible space are essential for already existing structures, but such measures only reduce the chance of burning.

In an attempt to increase local engagement, Baylis decided to switch the flyers into letter form with fewer pictures and more words describing the importance of defensible space.

Read about it in Slate: President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son Hunter reflects an attitude toward clemency that is at once defensible and perversely selfish, writes Mark Joseph Stern.

However, since short term rentals are considered non-residential use by many cities, there is a strong likelihood that minimum lease term requirements will be defensible if HOAs can show the requirement is reasonable.

Lightfoot, a former prosecutor, didn’t even bother to defend her department—probably because a department with a history of torture, black sites, framing innocent people, and child killing is not easily defensible.

Of all of Chiarelli’s long list of awful trades, this one might be the least defensible, and that’s saying a mouthful.

People facing wildfire damage should create defensible space around their homes.

Should Hamas gain more control or should the Palestinian Authority turn even more violent, not a single Israeli will be safe as Israel would have no defensible borders except perhaps its western border (i.e., the Mediterranean Sea).

Stay home, work on your defensible space.

In other words, the UCP platform is chock-a-block full of defensible, and interesting policy suggestions; and those are overwhelmingly not the ones we are talking about in this election.

More defensible strategies rely upon proprietary skills and methods in applying a technology or a proprietary relationship with a potentially important early customer.

On the other hand, there is clearly something remarkable and even morally defensible about riding an elevator down through layers of the earth into an oddly colored dreamscape, a place that blurs the boundaries between the real and the inorganic.