Sentence examples for tenable without from inspiring English sources

No institution denied aid under the Blaine Amendment would find its position any more tenable without the Blaine Amendment.

He realized that his position was no longer tenable without the support of an heir who had the approval of both the army and the people.

In the Oxford thesis, Ms. Kagan used the exclusionary rule to illustrate what she called "the dangers and long-term consequences of failing to provide a judicial decision with adequate support," and took the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren to task for "making matters worse" when it applied the rule to the states without "a tenable legal argument".

Reviewing Mark Steyn's controversial book, "America Alone" — which forecasts a dark future in which Old Europe falls under the influence of Islamic fundamentalism — Mr. Amis writes that "not a single Western European country is procreating at the 'replacement rate' of 2.1 births per woman," adding: "A depopulated and simplified Europe might be tenable in a world without enmity and predation.

I think my mother must have gathered them from the country house — the one that we had when my dad was alive, and that we kept for two years after he died, until it wasn't tenable — the renters left without paying — and had to be sold.

It's simply not tenable to praise him as a negotiator and reconciler without also claiming him as a military chief and a radical.

You have to wonder how much longer and tenable Yelp's international business might be longer term, without much of a commercial underpinning behind it.

Maybe, just maybe, we need to create a zone of privacy that will encourage public officials to communicate their candid thoughts over email while in office -- given that conducting business without email is simply no longer a tenable option -- by ensuring that the email exchanges will have some protection from publication.

And Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic majority leader, said it was "not tenable" to think that Congress would approve a bailout measure without a cap on executive pay, despite opposition from the Bush administration.

She says this and her face contorts in pain -- because she cannot imagine a tenable life with Kamiya, and yet cannot imagine any life without her; because she wonders how her daughter is being shaped by her proximity to strife.

Having a job is not the lofty goal of those in unemployment around the world, but the basic and tenable right to work deserved by those millions upon millions who are without.