Meanings of tenable position in English

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

There is plainly no tenable position between absolute infidelity and absolute belief.

Not a naturally tenable position for a bowl of petunias, you might think.

That is not a tenable position, but neither is extreme selectionism.

This covered position was forward of the Bradley, a less tenable position for a manned vehicle to occupy.

That may be a tenable position in some cases, but in the present instance the nature of the affair justifies prompt action.

You have been led from the extreme of independence to the extreme of subjection without meeting with a single tenable position for shelter or repose.

It further required that they reject some of the less tenable positions of certain popular denominations; even denominations to which some of them belonged.