Sentence examples for found untenable from inspiring English sources

As I understand it, all persons have a human right to consensual sexual activity, so are the grounds on which these under-16s are deemed not to have that right going suddenly, at some time, to be similarly found untenable because this prohibition is founded on no more than the interest, inconvenience or embarrassment of adults?

An editor there suggested she change her bears into human beings, an idea she found untenable.

That pressure, they said, helped foster the regulatory uncertainty that Shell found untenable.

The report found untenable Mr Hollingworth's decision to allow a known paedophile to keep working in the church.

To shoot Generation Kill in America (as Simon originally planned) would have cost in the region of $120m – a figure HBO found untenable.

These were soon found untenable, and it was Lieutenant-Colonel McAvoy, who commanded the Colorado battalions, that was the first to assume a position in front of the enemy.

Unfortunately, their recent appointment of Malky Mackay has put us in a position that we find untenable.

It is a position which I strongly believe many of its 1 million-plus members now also find untenable.

We likewise find untenable the American Bar Association's claim that appellants lack standing because a ruling in their favor would not provide genuine relief as a result of FACA's exceptions to disclosure.

And China is now isolated in the security council in opposing new sanctions on Iran – a position it always tries to avoid on any major issue, and which it may now find untenable.

Yet they find untenable Rorty's attempt to turn the issue of the legitimacy of ethical and epistemic norms into a matter of sociology.