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Synonyms for assailable

open to attack and capture because of a lack of protection

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Synonyms for assailable

not defended or capable of being defended

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VI, 1987 Constitution) Thus, it is clear that Abad's use of savings without any legislative appropriation to purchase the antidengue vaccines is assailable as legally and constitutionally infirm.
The Canadian legal landscape serves to inform this survey of the application of Indigenous legal orders by showing the irony in the Crowns resistance to accepting the validity of Indigenous laws, and subsuming them under the Canadian common law, when the substrate of the Crown's own legal system is itself assailable. The irony of control results from an assertion of dominant authority creating inequity between legal orders.
146-49) Almost immediately, the newly created man from his Transvestism has a semi-defensive offence to his father's assailable allegations:
Envelopments send the attacking force around prominent enemy defenses to seize objectives in the enemy rear or to attack an assailable flank.
As the director of research at the Canadian Museum of History stated at the Canadian Historical Association's 2015 address, history today is "immediate and assailable; important and invasive; multimedia and deeply personal, its authority embraced and contested at one and the same time by widespread accessibility and instantaneous competition, across an ever-shifting spectrum with ever-changing metrics" (Oliver, 2015, PP.
assailable motives: the need to promote the right kind of patriotism, to
It gives Aberystwyth an assailable five-point lead over Rhyl with just one match to play.
Garrett's least assailable criticism of DPAs and corporate prosecutions in general is his contention that prosecutors target corporate offenders in a manner that is "strikingly opaque" (p.
He now has what looks an assailable lead to be top jockey at the festival for a 10th time.
E-government can assist governments in going green and backing successful natural resource management, and in addition impel economic growth and further social incorporation of underprivileged and assailable groups.
Prevent opponents from segregating the conflict into easily assailable parts.
Globally agriculture sector is assailable to climate change.