Sentence examples for no longer defensible from inspiring English sources

It is no longer defensible to hide behind the rationale of being "just" a technologist working on "just" a technical problem, nor to pretend that technology will necessarily promote freedom.

Leaders of countries like Brazil, Mexico and China say just giving the job to another European is no longer defensible when fast-growing economies are outpacing the West, and such a move could undermine the fund's credibility.

It is still standing by its partially discredited story but it will now have to decide whether to retract those bits which, in the light of the ISC's report, are no longer defensible.

In the light of the findings of the human genome project, however, that idea is no longer defensible – as the leading psychologist Ken Richardson recently pointed out in the house magazine of the psychology profession.

The Express, Robert Gore-Langton Verdict: smashing "Just when you thought the BBC licence fee was no longer defensible given all the fifth-rate tat it churns out these days, along comes something that makes you think twice.

But after digesting Mr. Sobell's confession, in an interview last week with The New York Times, that he and Julius stole nonatomic military and industrial secrets, the Meeropols have now concluded that continuing to claim that their father was innocent of an espionage conspiracy was no longer defensible.

After Adam Smith, the basic tenets of mercantilism were no longer considered defensible.

But after it discovered that its network had been hacked from inside China, and that the Gmail accounts of human rights activists had been infiltrated, that tradeoff no longer seemed defensible.

At a conference to be held in January at Coventry University, Joseph and clinical psychologists Richard Bentall and Mary Boyle will call on psychiatrists to rethink their treatments, to re-examine the place of the environment in madness and to acknowledge that the categories into which they put their patients are no longer scientifically defensible as discrete categories.

As mentioned above: That means that proprietary code is no longer a defensible asset when it's in the path of the mainstream AI train.

It was no longer morally defensible to tell malicious teens how to hurt firms and their customers before they had the tools to defend themselves.