Contemporary theologians of revelation are aware that historical and literary criticism have rendered untenable the primitive idea of revelation as the direct utterance of God to man.
Gary Bettman could be finding himself boxed into a corner, his position that N.H.L. participation in future Olympics may not be worth the sacrifice rendered untenable by the big television audience last Sunday for the game between Canada and the United States.
With her husband stealing cars and her temporary lodgings rendered untenable by her loathsome stepfather (an unsettling Jiri Schmitzer), Marcela encounters a possible savior in the form of a significantly older — and wealthier — émigré (Josef Abrham).
Angus Deayton's injudicious use of £20 notes cost him his job yesterday when the BBC decided that the presenter's fondness for cocaine and predilection for prostitutes rendered untenable his position as chief satirist on Have I Got News For You.
For if all questions of mind-independent existence were external, then rejecting the intelligibility of external questions as Carnap does would also be to reject the concept of mind-independent existence, so that metaphysical realism would have been rendered untenable.
Cross-regional variations have been found in almost every linguistic aspect especially in pronunciation, lexicon, and grammar (see Huang et al. 2014; Li 李宇明 2010; Lin et al. 2014; Tsou and You 邹嘉彦, 游汝杰 2010)—which renders untenable the assumption of a homogeneous perception of the Chinese emotion lexicon.
So the problem is not that the discourse makes the work of pro-immigrant advocates harder, but that it renders untenable the lives of people who contribute to American culture and economy miserable, along with those of the people who love them and look like them.
There were plans to create a five-star hotel in the magnificent neoclassical building, but the limping economy of the nineties and aughts rendered that untenable, and so the building stands empty.
But if Iraq's bloody complexity has often made it hard to sustain this comforting narrative, the unmistakable imagery of a truly popular election, at least in most parts of the country, has now rendered it untenable.Not that some don't keep trying.
This overhead, along with other disadvantages, render these tools untenable as a long-term solution.
