Sentence examples for untenable standard from inspiring English sources
"No one has to be Mother Teresa — that's an untenable standard — and we should allow for variations in terms of what's appropriate in West Hollywood versus Fresno.... We should allow those leeways, but you don't want constituents to feel uncomfortable".
That's uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, nonopinion journalist I've ever known, and by normal standards, untenable.
This is "uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, non-opinion journalist I've ever known, and, by normal standards, untenable".
The court disagreed: it held that the fourth amendment protected Olmstead's person, home and office, but that telephone wires "are not part of his house or office any more than the highways along which they are stretched".As telephones became more common, the Olmstead standard grew more untenable.
However, if the number of lipid species to be quantitated is sufficiently large during targeted MRM experiments, or if a global/untargeted analysis is required, it is untenable to include labeled internal standards for precise quantitation of each known or hypothetical lipid molecular species.
"No legal system could long survive," they added, "if it gave every individual the option of disregarding with impunity any law which by his personal standard was judged morally untenable".
The modeling study confirms general perceptions of an untenable situation in which providers are financially unable to meet the established standards of diabetes care that would prevent or delay costly diabetes complications.
This situation becomes untenable if there is to be a program of investment in malting to maintain standards commensurate with the brand image of the products for which malt forms an integral part.
But even judged by the standards of past dichotomies between election pledges and the realities of governing, Romney has placed himself in an exceptionally untenable position.
