Sentence examples for untenable concept from inspiring English sources

He held that "apostolic succession" was an untenable concept.

Gail Feigenbaum, the exhibition's curator, suggests that "A Cotton Office" sums up the past, while "Cotton Merchants" represents the future of Degas's art, and this is not an untenable concept... Degas never again duplicated the psychological penetration and empathy of the Musson family portraits, which he took home with him and kept in his studio for the rest of his life.

This study shows that at high levels of F H, relative risk becomes an untenable concept and only incremental risk has clinical meaning.

In the end, a high water table made the concept untenable.

US president Obama, while acknowledging the moral dimension of reparations, is on the record as finding the concept politically untenable.

In order to show that the acceptance of nonexistence is untenable, Gorampa argues that the concepts of existence and nonexistence depend upon each other; one makes no sense without the other.

Then they wonder why the streets are so full of the socially excluded that many people find the concept of public space entirely untenable.

Bi-directional transformation of rules between separate environments and maintenance of inter-system concept mapping is inefficient and untenable as a long-term strategy.

After all, if we must demonstrate minimal capacities to earn full moral status, the entire concept of universal human rights becomes untenable.

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, in which fifty-three per cent of white women voted for Trump, the women's movement has had to accept that the concept of innate female moral superiority is untenable.

Hans Mühlestein, a Swiss Marxist historian, interpreted the events of 1653 in the 1940s and 1950s as an early bourgeois revolution of a progressive bourgeoisie, fitting the Marxist concept of "class struggle"; a view considered untenable by many later historians.