() Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week has exposed the indefensibility of weapons sales so clearly that the need for a suspension seems undeniable, except to the government.
(2) He also criticised the "indefensible" length of time families of the victims had had to wait for an inquest to be held.
(3) Whilst so much time, energy and resource has been spent defending and analysing the indefensible, from a woman's perspective, Rome has quietly burned down.
(4) In what is a credit to his integrity (although not his humanity), Walker held firm to his extremist position: “I believe that that is an unborn child that’s in need of protection out there, and I’ve said many a time that that unborn child can be protected, and there are many other alternatives that can also protect the life of that mother.” It’s is almost impossible to overstate how radical and indefensible Walker’s position is.
(5) We believe, as such, that these actions are unnecessary and indefensible, not to mention commercially questionable and potentially damaging to YouTube itself, given the harm likely to result from this approach.” Contacted by The Guardian overnight, YouTube provided this response: "YouTube provides a global platform for artists to connect with fans and generate revenue for their music," said a spokesperson.
(6) The politician, who heads the government department responsible for children's services and who was himself adopted as a child, said: "Rotherham's reasons for denying this family the chance to foster are indefensible.
(7) Lakoff and Johnson wrote out the most pervasive metaphors like this: GOOD IS UP; BAD IS DOWN (“We hit a peak last year, but it’s been downhill ever since”) ARGUMENT IS WAR (“Your claims are indefensible”) IDEAS ARE FOOD (“We shouldn’t spoonfeed our students”) UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING (“Let me point something out to you.
(8) Since 2001, when the Bush administration bluntly told Islamabad it must take sides, be either "for us or agin us" in the newly declared "war on terror", Pakistan has struggled under a plethora of imperious American demands, démarches and impositions that are at once politically indefensible and contrary to the perceived national interest.
(9) Didn't he realise what he was doing on his computer was unbelievably dangerous, and indefensible?
(10) Physician care was considered defensible in 62% of the cases and indefensible in 25% of the cases, in almost half of which the physician admitted error.
(11) If the allegations are true they are so serious and so fundamental to how the press operates in this country that it becomes indefensible."
(12) Phil Shiner, solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers , said: "[This] has confirmed that the government's plan to deny legal aid to claimants other than those who are classed as 'lawfully resident' in the UK for 12 months was unjust and indefensible.
(13) You need a Reagan.” For the conservative blogger Erick Erickson, the key is rediscovering the party’s moral compass after many defended the indefensible in Trump.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest McKinney police chief Greg Conley says the actions of Corporal Eric Casebolt were ‘indefensible’ Maurice Gray, whose wife and five children were at the party, said he is “hoping this will heal the neighborhood, the officer doing the right thing”.
(15) When other broadcasters either provide their content for free or allow subscribers to build their own package of channels, the approach of compelling people to buy the whole shebang via a tax is becoming indefensible.
(16) Pension parity for all After today's verdict John Markham, director of UK parliamentary affairs for the ICBP, said: "The ruling is completely indefensible and will leave half a million pensioners facing the possibility of destitution.
(17) But it can withdraw from this fight comforted by the fact that the banks have (finally) now recognised that they were trying to defend the indefensible.
(18) The YouTube video by Sunny Hundal which reveals the gentle nature by which we hold our displays serves to emphasise that abortion is indefensible.
(19) I condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms.” – UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon “The shelling of a UN facility, that is housing innocent civilians who are fleeing violence, is totally unacceptable and totally indefensible.” – White House spokesman Josh Earnest “ The world stands disgraced ” – Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of UNRWA IDF Comment: “Regarding the UNRWA facility in Jabaliya, we have determined that an exchange of fire, including mortar fire, did indeed take place in the vicinity of the school.” Additional: “All available evidence points to Israeli artillery as the cause – Ban Ki-moon Damage “likely to have come from heavy artillery not designed for precision use … [the IDF] provided no evidence of [militant] activity and no explanation for the strike beyond saying that Palestinian militants were firing about 200 yards away.” – New York Times investigation .
(20) How this happened is still unclear, but justice secretary Chris Grayling has said the allegations represent something "wholly indefensible and unacceptable".
Insupportable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some children appear to cope with the experience of parental suicide without serious consequences; for a few there was relief from an insupportable situation.
(2) A neonatal total artificial heart (TAH), used as a bridging device, can offer circulatory support for patients suffering from otherwise insupportable and inoperable congenital cardiac defects.
(3) It is argued that, under a pay-as-you-go system, future generations are committed to burdens without their consent; that claims are not contractually guaranteed; that early entrants reap windfalls gains; that successive cohorts are tempted to provide insupportably high benefit levels; and, finally, that fluctuations leave future generations at unacceptable risk.
(4) But the food was beyond bad: insupportable, in David's view, even allowing for the shortages; she was overcome with a sense of "embattled rage that we should be asked – and should accept – the endurance of such cooking".
(5) It's unacceptable, it's inappropriate and it's insupportable from every perspective and Alan knows that.
(6) Evaluates the the act frequency approach (AFA), noting that retrospective self-reports rather than behavioral acts are studied; act context and meaning are not considered; the AFA self-report inventories are incompletely developed and are psychometrically unsound; the AFA claim of absolute measurement of dispositions is insupportable; many of the self-report act statements used are technically unacceptable or conceptually unwarranted; the research agenda of the AFA primarily involves only "internal analyses" of self-report "act" inventories and indices and proposes the further creation of "act" inventories to index thousands of conceptually unorderable dispositions.
(7) His confinement in his father's house became insupportable.
(8) Africa’s first woman bishop, the Right Reverend Ellinah Wamukoya, also a member of the ACEN, said the fact the burden of climate change would fall disproportionately on the world’s women was morally insupportable.
(9) The situation in the UK (as in Italy) continues to be insupportable, yet somewhat like "serfs", we've seemed resigned to suffering it, as if no serious alternative existed.
(10) For Obama to attack Iran would be morally insupportable: it would be a rupture of faith.
(11) The assumption that community health will thereby be improved remains questionable even in developed countries, and is insupportable in developing countries.
(12) Meanwhile, the costs of a very elaborate new system mount insupportably the fewer newspapers, magazines and websites join.
(13) However, it is insupportable that financial pressures on local councils should be the excuse for people with dementia not being able to access vital care and support.” Vicky McDermott, chair of the Care & Support Alliance : “The government has made the right decision to delay the introduction of the care cap.
(14) Let us not forget that for many people, the practice of liberty is an insupportable challenge.
(15) Kennedy recognized that he would be in an "insupportable position if this becomes [Khrushchev's] proposal", both because the Turkish missiles were useless and were being withdrawn anyway, and because "it's gonna – to any man at the United Nations or any other rational man, it will look like a very fair trade."