Sentence examples for it is not tenable from inspiring English sources

The introduction shows how and when that assumption took full shape five centuries after Ruan Ji lived and why it is not tenable.

Ms. Lagarde also called for more fiscal integration among euro members, saying, "it is not tenable for 17 completely independent fiscal policies to sit alongside one monetary policy".

"The devolution strategy within the Department of Health means it is not tenable to do a centrally driven procurement," he says.

When those same traders are found guilty of serious wrongdoing, it is not tenable for senior executives to say "nothing to do with me, guv".

But even if you accept this benign interpretation of what happened, it is not tenable for Sessions to continue overseeing the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling and potential contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It is not tenable to ask local leaders to deliver the impossible, make unpopular local decisions as quietly as possible and then carry the can when the decisions become public.

"It isn't tenable for any food company, which claims to be socially responsible, to refuse to adopt the scheme," said Charlie Powell, CFC director.

He added: "It can't be in anyone's interest to see English people becoming cynical about the union... it isn't tenable to have devolution for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and for England to have no powers at all".

Yet for as noble an idea as "all apps, all accessible" is, the reality is that it isn't tenable beyond the bare minimum.

It isn't tenable any longer.

One intelligence official put it this way: "It's not tenable for us to have a jihadist organization on our border with the capability of destroying Israel's main oil refinery".