Sentence examples for it was not tenable from inspiring English sources

And Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic majority leader, said it was "not tenable" to think that Congress would approve a bailout measure without a cap on executive pay, despite opposition from the Bush administration.

More significantly, on substantive moral grounds, as Hook recognized, it was not tenable for an intellectual movement that charged Stalinism with framing its enemies in purges, trials and rehabilitation camps to be complicit with a movement which would falsely accuse persons of being communist agents or members of the Communist Party.

Charming though the place was, it wasn't tenable for the long term.

I think my mother must have gathered them from the country house — the one that we had when my dad was alive, and that we kept for two years after he died, until it wasn't tenable — the renters left without paying — and had to be sold.

"For us, it wasn't tenable in the long run".

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

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".

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".

"It was obvious to him that it's not tenable to say yes, we're aggressively killing the planet and then not do something aggressive about it," he said.

It is not tenable to suggest that the Community Reinvestment Act, which was enacted more than 30 years ago, suddenly caused an explosion in bad subprime loans from 2002 to 2007.

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.