Sentence examples for finally untenable from inspiring English sources

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It was around the time of Vincenzo's deterioration that the financial complications became finally untenable; three consecutive pay cheques bounced, and I had enough IOU slips to build a papier-mache canoe.

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Its troubled place in "Southern heritage" had finally become untenable and indefensible.

As Steven Thomson slammed home a fourth St Mirren goal against Mowbray's Celtic, the manager's job finally became untenable.

Nietzsche thought that by the end of the 19th century, the idea of God had finally become untenable.

It's in the Ken Burns mode — baseball as mostly peaceful national treasure, a symbol of America as it should be — but amid the home-movie nostalgia the film highlights the sixties as a contentious era in which the economics of the sport, which favored owners at the expense of players, finally became untenable.

"This difficult position finally became untenable with the papermaking company's third largest and most profitable customer entering into an insolvency process on Monday 1 April 2015.

Even this administration, with its high tolerance for that sort of behavior, no doubt considered it untenable finally — to have such a dubious housing chief when home mortgages are in crisis.

A telling example of this once-common view can be found in an admiring 1996 book by the then Guardian journalist Martin Walker, who asserted that the president's few failings were "in the end balanced and even outweighed by his part in finally sinking the untenable old consensus of the New Deal, and the crafting of a new one".

If Jane Procter has gone for good, staff can only assume that the resignation of two senior members of her fashion team finally made her position untenable.

(This was, it should be remembered, long before the appearance of Carrot Top, which finally made the whole idea untenable).

Only three months later, after his primary victory made White House refusals to talk politically untenable did it finally disclose details, after consulting with Mr. Sestak's brother and campaign adviser.

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