Sentence examples for it becomes untenable from inspiring English sources

And how long will it be before it becomes untenable to campaign for better regulation of banks and multinationals abroad, while obediently refraining from carrying out advocacy on exactly the same issue at home.

People sneak past police barriers to check on tanks and marijuana crops, moving out as much of the harvest as possible before it becomes untenable or even more unsafe.

"For it is clear," he continued, "that once you start implementing policies it becomes untenable to say constantly, 'I am passing Law X through parliament even though I think it is toxic.' At some point either you resign or you remove the cognitive dissonance by beginning to believe that Law X ain't that bad; perhaps it is what the doctor ordered.' This mutation I have already witnessed.

If I were giving advice and people were considering taking out a private student loan, I would say put it on your credit card so you can at least declare bankruptcy if it becomes untenable".

Somehow, then, the pundits have come to expect the informed voter to admire the politician who rigidly maintains a position long after it becomes untenable, and despise one whose position evolves in response to changed circumstances or a change in the moral consensus of the voting public.

Once the fraud deniers have to admit that one form of control fraud involving mortgages was "pervasive" among our most prestigious banks, it becomes untenable to ignore the already compelling evidence that other forms of control fraud involved in the fraudulent origination and sale of mortgages and mortgage derivatives were even more pervasive at hundreds of financial institutions.

Also, the physical act of it became untenable.

I wasn't prepared to do it, and so it became untenable.

She found it easier to belong to the party, until it became untenable.

Owners found the deal so favorable to players that it became untenable for them just two years later.

It became untenable following the revelation of the bank's plan to reward management with lucrative stock options after it received a government bailout.