Sentence examples for largely untenable from inspiring English sources
Within the context of statehood, this difficulty is somewhat eased as it is largely untenable for any state to demand that millions of its citizens should be allowed to become citizens of another state.
Since the situations which give rise to these crises are largely untenable, U.S. options are generally poor and at best limited.
His decision was driven largely by the untenable situation of scores of families sleeping on the floor of the Emergency Assistance Unit, which he visited on Sunday.
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee William C. Dudley has argued that a global financial system regulated on a largely national basis is untenable for supporting a world economy with global financial firms.
Yesterday, President Obama repeated what has become a familiar routine: after two months of bad press on a controversial issue, he made a grand gesture of conceding that his critics may have a point, even while largely holding to his increasingly untenable position, and announced a series of "reforms" that amount, at the end of the day, to window dressing.
Excluding its use as some sort of mantra or wishful incantation, the notion that American politics exist largely in the absence of violence is untenable.
It took more than three years before the United States and its allies were stirred into action -- thanks largely to Bill Clinton being pushed into an untenable corner by then French President Jacques Chirac.
Such a view, however, largely because of arguments developed within poststructuralism, seemed increasingly untenable.
Two other multilateral bodies, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, are already giving Indonesia much less help this year, largely because of the country's corruption and bad governance.The alternative approach simply to cave in to the government is as untenable for the Fund in Indonesia as elsewhere.
First, their fieldwork, largely undertaken among American Indians, showed the widespread influences of diffusion between cultures, stimulating culture change that rendered any simple picture of unilinear evolution untenable.
