Sentence examples for seemed tenable from inspiring English sources

But after the 2001 riots that position no longer seemed tenable.

But the prospect seems tenable.

Neither of these extremes seems tenable.

To many analysts, the situation doesn't seem tenable in the long run.

"It doesn't seem tenable as we go into a vastly different configuration," Dr. Pillemer acknowledged.

"But this is Bahrain" — things that didn't seem tenable a few weeks ago can happen almost anywhere.

Speaking ahead of a Senate vote on surveillance, which may come as early as Friday, he said it did not seem tenable to him that senators would vote to allow the NSA to retain its existing powers.

That type of usage doesn't seem tenable as Google+ gains users.

As the underlying constructs were the same in their study, their suggestions of comparability of the tests involved seem tenable.

This may seem tenable in the US, but it looks completely aberrational if you look at the more sedate U.K. market.

The usual turn from unsatisfying wars abroad to happier domestic conditions, however, no longer seems tenable.