Sentence examples for considered indefensible from inspiring English sources

He defended a project that many considered indefensible with good humour, a stance that evoked admiration and criticism in equal measure.

We'll know we've claimed that future when rankism is considered indefensible.

To give difficulty to the British operations, Saavedra ordered the withdrawal of all military hardware from Colonia, considered indefensible at that point, and mobilized those troops and equipment to Buenos Aires to fortify the city.

As a result, he has often been dogged by controversy, usually for coming to the defense of those whom many consider indefensible.

Bush has a unique opportunity to forge a domestic consensus for his roll of the dice; provided that the Decider does not appear to pushing Israel into a deal that it considers indefensible from its own security vantage point.

Blair could have simply accepted Kelly's protestations that he wasn't Gilligan's source and declared the matter closed, but in that case the government would have missed its chance to discredit Gilligan's story, which Blair considered an indefensible attack on his personal integrity.

An activist in Douma, who gave his name as Muhammad, said the town had been considered "liberated" but indefensible.

At Worcester, the unimproved walls were considered to be indefensible at the start of the war in 1642, and the chosen solution was to directly reinforce the existing medieval wall with new earthworks.

It considers those boundaries indefensible and does not want to commit in advance to giving up land within Israel in exchange for keeping settlement blocs in the West Bank.

The former Dutch defence minister Joris Voorhoeve recalls a meeting with Lake at which the American appeared to be "one of a number of persons – who might not like to be reminded of the fact – who then thought the enclaves were indefensible anyway … They considered the enclaves to be very complicated situations which did not fit into a future map".

He went on to say that while he supported "the women's cause both inside and outside the church" he considered "Christa" to be "theologically and historically indefensible".