Sentence examples for made it indefensible from inspiring English sources

The castle was not involved in the events of the English Civil War in the 17th century, and escaped the slighting that affected many similar properties, probably because the collapse of the outer walls had already made it indefensible and of little military value.

The £5.1bn Premier League TV deal makes it indefensible for all clubs not to offer the same.

He acknowledged that the Court's decision "would be simple if our personal opinion that school segregation is morally, economically and politically indefensible made it legally so".

The Bosnian prime minister, Haris Silajdzic, blamed the UN and Nato for doing too little too late to protect Srebrenica, but UN officials made it plain they saw it as indefensible and were only too keen to get out.

The Supreme Court has made it possible for courts to uphold such indefensible lawyering.

In 1972, the state court found it "constitutionally indefensible" to forbid non-citizens to practice law, and one year later a US Supreme Court ruling made it the law of land.

It was not a program of "guaranteed income," he said, and he added, "To put it bluntly and simply, any system which makes it more profitable for a man not to work than to work... is wrong and indefensible".

"That's made him indefensible.

But this is the same man who in 1982 made an indefensible remark to an aide who complained that there would be "coons" at a campaign stop.

Having looked at gut reactions to him in focus groups and opinion polls, they are convinced that he fails the blink test, and quite badly.It is tempting to conclude from the blink test that politics is a shallow business in which profoundly important judgements are made with indefensible immediacy.

But when Sir Malcolm Bruce, the retired Scots Lib Dem former MP, popped up on Radio 4 on Tuesday to defend his beleaguered colleague, he recalled how Sturgeon once made an indefensible defence of a benefit cheat – I think he must mean this case.