Some schools' salary and start-up ranges had been low, and others had not been willing, or able, to create a second position, which made them untenable.
Her mother's religious views, at odds with the rigid orthodoxy of the Puritan ministers, helped to create a major division in the Boston church and an untenable situation for the colony's leaders.
Relatedly, transformability is the capacity of actors to create a fundamentally new system when conditions make the existing system untenable.
There were plans to create a five-star hotel in the magnificent neoclassical building, but the limping economy of the nineties and aughts rendered that untenable, and so the building stands empty.
A sampling of open science research policies is offered in Table 2. On the surface, these policy trends seem to create an untenable situation within the research community.
These factors have converged to create an increasingly untenable situation with many employees overworking to the point of burnout.
But incorporating the note in the text had the effect of flattening Sakharov's attempt to create an intellectual hierarchy between peace that is desired and peace that is nonetheless morally untenable.
When Chez Panisse opened in 1971, it was with a relatively untrained staff, a set fixed-price menu that changed daily, and an uncompromising dedication to a vision that seemed to many untenable: Waters wanted to create meals that used only locally grown seasonal ingredients, and she wanted to forge relationships with the producers and suppliers of these ingredients.
Instead, they once found themselves in an untenable situation, created a coping skill that may or may not have worked at the time, and haven't yet realized that said skill-set is no longer serving them.
We can say they don't know any better, perhaps they appear unaware of their ability to create turmoil or provoke untenable situations.
