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unsupportable

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Not able to be supported or endured.

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One form might claim that the idea of a significant debate is generated by unsupported or unsupportable philosophical theses about the relationship of the experiencing and minded subject to their world, and that once these theses are exorcised the 'debate' will gradually wither away.

But this week a University of Massachusetts student, Thomas Herndon, and two professors, Robert Pollin and Michael Ash, uncovered "miscalculation, data errors and unsupportable statistical techniques" that have blown the austerians case out of the water.

Instead of accepting its punishment, Barclays contested the ruling, saying it was "unsupportable" and that its trading was legitimate.The bank's belligerence is atypical: financial firms try to avoid open conflict with their regulators.

(Writing in 1714, Daniel Defoe spoke of the "imposition" of the office of constable as "an unsupportable hardship," taking so much of a man's time that it compelled him to neglect his own affairs, too often leading to his ruin).

To deny this freedom "on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes," Warren contended, would be "to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law".

As the neofunctionalist school suggests, the idea is to increase economic interpenetration between erstwhile hostile countries, seeking to raise the level of interdependence to the point where armed conflict and sustained mutual isolation become economically unsupportable.

The ration tickets had become "an unsupportable burden for the economy and a disincentive to work", he said.

The overriding narrative is that liberalisation has hurt farmers, with tens of thousands committing suicide as they have not been able to bear unsupportable debt.

Today he joins the list of shame of those in public life who made scientifically unsupportable statements in 2008.

In Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit, Delphine de Vigan wrote of her mother, dead by suicide, in an attempt to determine what in her mother's seemingly joyful life could have led her to such unsupportable despair.

The unsupportable prior restraint garnered press attention, an immediate appeal, and a friend-of-the-court brief filed by a number of the nation's leading media companies.

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