Sentence examples for politically indefensible from inspiring English sources

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".

All of this gawking may make me sound like a cultural voyeur of the most politically indefensible stripe, and naturally, being a journalist, I am.

The prospect of grieving parents of servicemen killed in Afghanistan being barred from security-sensitive sessions of an inquest into the death of their son or daughter and never discovering why they had died was judged to be politically indefensible.

At some point, I hope, Britain will have to do the right thing in Ireland, as France did in Algeria, in 1962: recognize the morally and politically indefensible nature of its occupation of Irish soil, back away, and permit the population of Ireland to choose its own national identity.

McCain's position is as politically indefensible as it is counterproductive.

And now we are talking about making a policy that is morally, economically and politically indefensible the centerpiece of the economic policy of a Democratic president.

Carter calls this "politically untenable and morally indefensible".

Bishop's position in defending the travel claim was completely indefensible, both politically and practically – notwithstanding the mildly ambiguous nature of the parliamentary entitlements rules.

This ruling acknowledged what many people had long felt, that segregation was morally indefensible, socially irrational and politically undemocratic.

Scott Lemieux calls it "an indefensible decision that wasn't in any sense politically necessary, and indeed might be politically counterproductive".

(The United States, which has its own politically connected sugar producers, is Europe's co-conspirator in this indefensible system).