Sentence examples for but untenable from inspiring English sources
The day the story broke, 13 sponsors suspended their backing, making Sterling's position all but untenable.
Dr. Safyer said the Obama requirements were laudable as an ultimate goal, but untenable as a starting point.
These are all innocent activities but untenable for those of us who – how to put this politely?
His replacement, Haroon Lorgat, is bound up in an interminable argument with the BCCI, which, ugly a truth as this is, makes his position all but untenable.
Since the UK voted to leave the EU, its longstanding advocacy of the Balkans countries' EU membership is not just paradoxical but untenable in the eyes of many, the report says.
It justifies its acceptance of junk-rated Greek debt by invoking the official but untenable view that the country is still solvent.The ECB has even more reluctantly intervened in secondary markets to buy the bonds of ailing governments (see chart 3).
We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five — a reasonable notion when those over sixty-five were a tiny percentage of the population, but completely untenable as they approach twenty per cent.
But will not give all the relevant answers to identify what is legally and technically feasible but morally untenable".
(To his considerable credit, Herder normally refrains from a more extreme, but philosophically untenable, version of this thesis, favored by some of his successors, which simply identifies thought with language, or with inner language).
In a statement to the Swindon Advertiser, Di Canio added: "With the club selling one of our best players behind my back and continually making promises that are broken, I feel at this moment that my job is not just impossible but is untenable.
On the other side of the debate, Riggs (1997, 52) reaches a conclusion similar to Horwich's: "Lewis's account may do for a once only attempt, but is untenable as a general explanation of [the time traveller's] continual lack of success if he keeps on trying [to kill Grandfather]." Goddu (2007) criticises Smith's first objection to Horwich.
