Meanings of more tenable in English

I tried to shift us both into a slightly more tenable position.

The more he pondered over it, the more tenable this theory seemed to Inspector Willis.

No institution denied aid under the Blaine Amendment would find its position any more tenable without the Blaine Amendment.

The finalist or teleological conception is not any more tenable, for Evolution is not simply the realization of a plan.

A more tenable explanation, at all events, is that just suggested, the disintegration of mythologies by the mixture of tribes.

At this point I ventured to ask why he regarded the latter view as so much more tenable than the former.

The laws and the principles on which they lean are probably no more tenable than those of the classicists a century ago.

Neither is the case rendered at all more tenable by the addition of the words, "in a state of excitement."

The more subtle and plausible case for psychological determinism Bergson shows to be no more tenable than that offered for the physical.

Thus, he can prove the existence of Teutonism just about as conclusively as Haeckel has proved the more tenable proposition of the non-existence of God.

"Then you allow his position to be more tenable and reasonable than yours?"