Sentence examples for economically indefensible from inspiring English sources

Such a setup is ethically and economically indefensible.

Some of the Tories' election promises to spare houses worth up to £1m ($1.5m) from inheritance tax and to sell social housing at a discount are economically indefensible vote-buying gestures that will only add to the unfairness.But three things count in the Tories' favour.

Buckingham Palace has called it "a modern, transparent and simpler way of funding the head of state", but critics say it is economically indefensible.

It will only exacerbate one of the most morally (and economically) indefensible pillars of American society - the tradeoff between health care versus every other family need, a conundrum that places millions of Americans on the knife's edge of financial ruin at the first serious family health crisis.

And now we are talking about making a policy that is morally, economically and politically indefensible the centerpiece of the economic policy of a Democratic president.

He acknowledged that the Court's decision "would be simple if our personal opinion that school segregation is morally, economically and politically indefensible made it legally so".

The campaign group Republic, which calls for an elected head of state, has described the changes as economically and morally indefensible.

On February 23rd David Cameron, the Tory prime minister, promised to protect their handouts on the basis that "these people have fought wars, seen us through recessions made this the great country it is today" (see article).That argument is economically senseless and morally indefensible.

He privately opposed slavery as an institution which he viewed as economically unsound and morally indefensible.

Ms. Bellamy said it was not only morally indefensible but economically unsound to allow the debt crisis to persist.

Health and wellbeing forms an integral component of that ecology, and the promotion of health in developing countries represents more than just an opportunity to improve the physical lives of the poor, but indeed forms an essential rung without which our climb to global prosperity and security will be logistically impractical, economically inefficient and morally indefensible.