Sentence examples for quite untenable from inspiring English sources
Naturally, this line of thinking is quite untenable here in go-getting 2012.
Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell said the peer's position had become "quite untenable" when it emerged he had commissioned the polls "in secret" and "allegedly leaked them to the media".
"We're kind of getting to the place where once there is enough banks who are as transparent in their foreign fees as Monzo is then it becomes quite untenable for everyone else to keep hiding their fees and that's very interesting.
As a result of the low stipulated price of $15 per acre, all of the sites were uncleared land, and many were quite untenable for a campus.
Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative leader, moved to leverage the current crisis in the Tories' favor, saying those who had exploited Dr. Kelly "will have to answer that charge, and one assumes that their position would quite rightly be untenable".
In a scathing, 32-page opinion, Royce C. Lamberth, the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled in the detainees' favor, characterizing the government's arguments using terms like "untenable," "quite preposterous," "even less persuasive," and "does not pass the smell test".
At close scrutiny, though, this quite attractive appraisal is untenable.
"When you have taken Kabul or when you make Kabul untenable to the Taliban, you have struck quite a blow.
In fact, the Nuggets did quite well — certainly far better than Cleveland and Toronto did when they lost LeBron James and Chris Bosh — given the untenable situation they were in.
I'm quite sure they're going to figure out a way to fix this because it's a politically untenable thing".
