Sentence examples for indefensible acts from inspiring English sources

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In a passionate speech on Thursday in Jerusalem, Mr. Obama acknowledged that Israel has had to confront Palestinian factions, like Hamas, who sometimes turn to indefensible acts of terror.

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"It was an indefensible act of aerial bombardment," the letter says.

In the interests of full disclosure, I am passionately anti-abortion, for the simple reason that it's a morally indefensible act.

Your silencing of Gemma - the only person you have handpicked for sacking in INM - is a morally repugnant and indefensible act which has consequences for all of your readers and the broader public.

The Bush administration's decision to deny California permission to regulate and reduce global warming emissions from cars and trucks is an indefensible act of executive arrogance that can only be explained as the product of ideological blindness and as a political payoff to the automobile industry.

"Without in any way excusing indefensible terrorist acts, we still need to address those conditions of poverty and injustice which are exploited by terrorists," the document, made public at the start of the bishops' annual fall meeting, says.

It was used in an effort not to expose deep-seated corruption, indefensible criminal acts or government involvement in war, death or spying on its own citizens – but rather in an ultimately unsuccessful endeavor to impeach a sitting president over whether he had lied under oath about the affair itself.

Well, for a moment anyway, until I realised it would be morally indefensible to act like I was the one who was hard done by.

It can be indefensible, too: An act of conscience describes an action motivated by loyalty to a conviction, but it usually requires the defiance of other loyalties.

Four federal courts have now declared the so-called Defense of Marriage Act indefensible under the Constitution, as the Justice Department did.

"Through the prism of this regretful, treacherous, indefensible and barbaric act," said Imam Abdullah Antepli, "Islam as a religion and Muslims as a people entered many people's consciousness for the first time".

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