The border at Oder and Lusatian Neisse was essential for him, as he considered it, the historical argument was not decisive here, the safest and most defensible one.

It was one of the strangest, yet one of the most defensible, fortresses Arilyn had ever encountered.

Sergeants and officers were out surveying the lie of the slope, seeking the most defensible strongpoints.

While Pereboom acknowledges that agent causation is still a possibility, he regards it as unlikely against the backdrop of the most defensible physical theories.

But done right, raising the retirement age is one of the most defensible and sensible changes we can make.

The great majority of the civilians took refuge in the British Embassy, the largest and most defensible of the diplomatic legations.

And the first erection of houses shall be around these temples, where the ground is highest, in order to provide the safest and most defensible place of retreat for the guards.

It was about midnight when Sparhawk climbed the stairs to the wall of the old city not far from the south gate, the most defensible of the four and the one it had been decided to leave unblocked.

Later in the war, at Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the Japanese switched strategy and dug in their forces in the most defensible terrain.

The Methodist compound was the largest and most defensible of the missionary establishments.