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Tenable Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0
    tenable adj : based on sound reasoning or evidence; "a reasonable argument"; "well-founded suspicions" [syn: well-founded]
Tenable Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
    Tenable \Ten"a*ble\, a. [F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Thin, and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant, Tent.] Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. --Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. --Sir W. Scott.
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* I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy


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  • Tenable’s Nessus ProfessionalFeed to Monitor VMware Infrastructure
    Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in real-time vulnerability management, today announced that its Nessus ProfessionalFeed is available for VMware customers. Starting today, VMware resellers can sell Tenable’s leading vulnerability management scanner, Nessus ProfessionalFeed, to vSphere infrastructure customers. Read more on this news related to 'Tenable'
  • No case against Dalli ‘doesn't change’ Commission’s position
    The European Commission has stood by its position taken on Dalligate insisting that the former Health Commissioner's position was no longer "politically tenable". Read more on this news related to 'Tenable'
  • iGate faces unsettled tax demands
    iGate said these demands are not tenable and the NASDAQ-listed firm has approached the requisite appellate authorities. Read more on this news related to 'Tenable'

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