The idea that one's social status may be determined not by hard work but by circumstances of birth and a few lucky breaks is almost untenable to American viewers.
And Hanns Eisler, a Stravinsky associate whose radical politics saw him expelled from the United States in 1948, brought to his score for Alain Resnais's 1955 Holocaust documentary, "Night and Fog," a neutrality almost untenable to modern listeners accustomed to more emotionally suasive scoring.
A union is almost untenable at the moment, because we don't have the infrastructure – but we'll get there".
Chamberlain won that Commons vote, but enough of his usual supporters switched sides or abstained to make his position almost untenable.
Francine McKenna, a columnist for American Banker and a former auditor, wrote last year that the setup presents an "almost untenable conflict of interest". Many companies hired to review the loans, including Promontory Financial Group and Treliant Risk Advisors, are professional firms that directly serve the mortgage companies for other consulting assignments, McKenna said.
John Whittingdale, the Tory chair of the culture media and sport select committee, said Blatter's position was "almost untenable" and called for a "urgent and full transparent investigation to establish the facts".
Another question, from me: Does this mean that all new SGLT2's will have to prove a negative, which is an almost untenable strike against any new drug?
The position became almost untenable in the week that a 4-0 defeatdefeat Anfieldeld, when he managed to pick a squad with no central defensive cover on the bench, was followed by Manchester United's win in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.
The upsurge in ethnic violence has bolstered Mr Milosevic's claim that international peacekeepers have broken their promise to provide security for all Kosovo's residents, regardless of ethnic origin.Placed in an almost untenable position by the recent ethnic violence, the moderate Kosovo Serbs who had been co-operating with UN institutions have pulled out again, though perhaps only briefly.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt sent a letter to President Bush stating that the Israeli air strikes made Egyptian efforts at peace almost untenable, but adding that despite the anger expressed by the Arab League over the weekend, he was not giving up.
Most of what he said was certain to please foreign investors, who have begun to trickle back into Russia two years after an economic crash made business for many almost untenable.
