Sentence examples for position was tenable from inspiring English sources

David Laws, appointed chief secretary to the Treasury less than three weeks ago, stood down saying that he no longer believed his position was tenable after it was revealed that he had claimed more than £40,000 to live in his partner's house.

Asked if Mitchell's position was tenable, he said, "I think it's very difficult for him to continue".

However, Coulson's critics have questioned whether his position is tenable if the Tories come to power.

This position is tenable because several interlinked factors – "objective" and "subjective" – make the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime inevitable.

Bluntly, the permanent secretary should be considering whether his own position is tenable, and so should the former transport secretary Justine Greening and her former minister of state, Theresa Villiers.

Informal conversations are understood to have taken place among institutional investors – who own BSkyB shares on behalf of pensioners or holders of life insurance policies – about whether Murdoch's position is tenable while the hacking investigations take place.

"I think unless he can rebuild some connection, some rapport, some confidence within the industry, then I don't think he has any alternative, I don't think that his current position is tenable, unless he can rebuild that confidence with the sector".

The former West Bromwich Albion boss told BBC South Today he believes his position is "tenable" after the approach.

Neither position is tenable.

I just can't get myself into their mindset or even imagine how they think their position is tenable.

"I don't know if their position is tenable anymore," said Gautam Hans, a clinical fellow at the University of Michigan Law School and expert on the Communications Decency Act.