Sentence examples for untenable to think from inspiring English sources

"It is truly untenable to think that we would knowingly bargain away something that has been illegal for decade upon decade in this country," Mr. Veroneau said, adding that Washington is not defying the W.T.O. but simply pursuing its case through all legal channels.

The deputy governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, said: "The message that the authorities were giving to Barclays was that they had to face up to the full reality of the situation and that it was untenable to think they could go on with the same management, almost as if not much had happened".

For many people, however, it was untenable to think that this therapy could have any positive effect and they focused attention on possible weaknesses in the study design and implementation (which is fair) – and on the credibility of the lead investigators (which I did not think was fair).

Alex McLeish's position has become untenable and it is almost inconceivable to think that he will still be the Aston Villa manager at the start of next season, irrespective of what division the club are in.

Second, it is pointed out that current accounts of mental representation are untenable or, at least, controversial and that there is no obvious reason to think that there will ever be a generally accepted account of mental representation.

It's heartbreaking to think that brave American troops have once again been put into such an untenable situation.

He was known to think big and to battle, not always successfully, on behalf of his projects, even when executives at the institutions where he worked insisted that his plans were financially untenable.

To do anything less would be untenable". I think this is also good advice for teachers.

If you are a business which is considering the living wage, or which thinks it would be untenable to adopt, I want to hear from you, too.

It became untenable, and I get all the reasons why it became untenable, but I think we suffer as a citizenry to not have that, because what gets done in its place is pretty terrible and corrosive and partisan and people tell all these tales about the past and there's no way to dispute them or engage in a deeper way with them, because there's no sense of a shared past.

I think they began to see the national security implications, and then after Sept. 11 it became untenable to cut the programs radically".