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Meanings of only tenable in English

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Usage of only tenable in English
1
Then the simple solution, the only tenable one, occurred to him.
The Substitute Prisoner
2
They were so sure their theory was the only tenable one.
The Darrow Enigma
3
The only tenable theory of age is the amount of accumulation in the depressions of the lodge sites.
Archeological Investigations / Bureau of American Ethnology, Bul...
4
He argues that withdrawal is the only tenable solution to the crisis prompted by the country's vote on Lisbon.
The Irish Times
5
That theory was only tenable on the supposition that life was not completely extinct when the body was removed.
The Moon Rock
6
Uffe Elleman-Jensen argues that withdrawal is the only tenable solution to the crisis prompted by the country's vote on Lisbon.
The Irish Times
7
I believe that our contemporary pragmatists, especially Messrs. Schiller and Dewey, have given the only tenable account of this subject.
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
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The greater part is only tenable after or during heavy rains, when the hollows in the flats between the sandy ridges contain water.
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia / Performed Un...
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This appears to be the only tenable reason that has been assigned for the change of the family name from Calcraft to Schoolcraft.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
10
That they feared an open attack by day and dreaded the tiger by night was the only tenable theory that Grenville could devise.
As It Was in the Beginning
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