Sentence examples for untenable role from inspiring English sources

The measure "will dry up many of the normal sources for national-security reporting and result in more media subpoenas as prosecutors attempt to 'smoke out' leakers, placing journalists in the untenable role of government enforcement agents," said Barbara Cochran, president of the association.

That's an untenable role for a single agency, and the idea is likely a political nonstarter," Mervis and Malakoff wrote.

But if so, too, it makes Gooch's role untenable.

The College of Social Work, the centre of excellence for the profession, said many employees had found the role untenable as a result of "social worker bashing" in the wake of high-profile child-abuse cases.

Boss and longtime friend Tony Hall, the BBC's director general, has said that Yentob has been cleared of influencing coverage of Kids Company but recognised the scandal made keeping his executive role untenable.

The picture of Newton's atomism as an elaboration and improvement of mechanical atomism becomes untenable once the role of force in Newton's theorising is taken into account.

(Also, when will he release his tax returns?) Nor has he helped his credibility by making untenable claims about his role as a "job creator".

"Clearly, competing interests within the U.S.O.C. have placed its C.E.O.'s in an untenable, if not impossible, role," Ward said, playing the victim in his farewell statement.

Recent evidence suggests that managers are finding the role almost untenable as the complexity of their job grows and they face an external regulatory system increasingly adversarial and critical.

Edward Lord, Football Association anti-discrimination adviser, said Scudamore's role looked "untenable".

Do you know how to recognize and seize chances to move into a better role, change an untenable situation, or ensure that you get credit for extra work?