Sentence examples for have been untenable from inspiring English sources

Of course, departing too much from Prince cliché would have been untenable.

Presumably, though, a film like his would have been untenable at the time.

Anything less would have been untenable for a team that preaches the importance of cohesion inside its clubhouse walls.

It was widely felt in Downing Street that his position would have been untenable had he lost the referendum.

I thought that the very obvious reminders of living with a battery-operated device — carrying battery packs and sleeping plugged into a wall socket — might have been untenable.

Defeat here would have been untenable, just as it would have been on Saturday at Wembley, and Arsenal's senior players seemed to sense this.

While the "one bad apple" narrative has been untenable ever since Festina – and arguably long before then for cycling historians – Armstrong ruthlessly exploited the sport's desire for a white knight who would sweep away the misdeeds of 1998 in the laughably named "Tour of Renewal".

But Julie Bailey, from the campaign group Cure the NHS, which has led the calls for the under-fire boss to resign, said that his position had been untenable since the publication of the public inquiry.

The entitlement commitments made by past generations have been rendered untenable by demographics and health cost inflation.

From the point of view of the perpetrator, this may have been an untenable possibility: the enemy had a reasonable chance of assuming political control of his community.

That would have been an untenable - if darkly comic - proposition.