Sentence examples for untenable which from inspiring English sources

It is intended to show us that realism is untenable, which of course means that this conclusion cannot just be assumed from the start.

But he says that when it comes to managing storage for fifty people, or hundreds, then that can become untenable, which is where Egnyte comes in.

And the Israeli government is attempting to do the untenable, which is pulling off colonization--against a soon-to-be Arab majority in a post-colonial era, all while painting itself through propaganda as a defenseless victim, or a humanitarian who bends over backwards to spare innocent lives.

But then painting is untenable too, which is a good enough reason to be doing it.

Mr. Leigh added that these and other actions by the Israeli government had left him "in an untenable position, which I must confront according to my conscience".

It also created an untenable situation in which a one-year repeal is followed by reinstatement.

Where was the anger at the untenable situation in which they were placed by the sponsoring group?

In registering their protest vote, Eric Cantor and his crew put themselves in an untenable position, from which the only escape was capitulation.

In dissent, Justice David H. Souter warned that "it seems fair to ask whether the step taken by the court today does anything but portend a return to the untenable jurisprudence from which the court extricated itself almost 60 years ago".

But in the absence of the best defense, one is forced to settle for the next best: knowing when to remove oneself from the untenable situation into which imprudence has led one.

The fact that the Army is examining a number of suspected suicides among soldiers in Iraq (news article, Oct. 14) may be a sad reflection of the untenable situation in which many of our troops have been placed by the current administration.