Sentence examples for pretty untenable from inspiring English sources
"As you have seen an expansion of the government's role," the adviser said, "as you see expansion in government spending, increasing deficits, increasing unemployment, you're bringing yourself into a pretty untenable situation economically".
And the Globe's stated policy of "curing" plagiarism by annotating the material after the fact is pretty untenable".
That's a pretty untenable position to take, but since Priebus obviously cannot close the gender gap by promising to give women reproductive autonomy or increased access to vital health care, it's the only move he really has at the moment.
That makes it fairly untenable to participate.
They could see that if RBS won, their positions would be pretty much untenable because they were in overlapping jobs.
"It was pretty well untenable that they could be team-mates past this year after all the things that have happened, and then Malaysia, in particular, although Mark says that that's not the reason he's made the decision," he said.
The Redfern cop's career became untenable after his apparent culpability in the death in custody of a local youngster, Lennie Brewster, in Pretty Boy Blue – the final instalment of the first series.
