(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."
Unsupportable
Definition:
(a.) Insupportable; unendurable.
Example Sentences:
(1) She reported violence and aggression from patients and their relatives and said she felt unsupported by management after “horrific incidents”.
(2) By embedding the biopsy in the acrylic resin LR White, unsupported sections of which are stable in the electron beam, light and electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry become feasible on sections from the same block.
(3) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(4) Previous decompression tables for humans were based upon unsupported assumptions because the underlying processes by which dissolved gas is liberated from blood and tissue were poorly understood.
(5) We have shown that patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) complain of disabling dyspnea when performing seemingly trivial tasks with unsupported arms.
(6) The older group could sit or stand unsupported, while the younger group could sit but could not yet stand.
(7) All the children could sit unsupported and therefore were at point 9 on the Vignos functional scale.
(8) Second, on unemployment, on disability living allowance and, this weekend, on the effect of benefit caps, IDS and his ministers keep making claims that are unsupported by their own data.
(9) At best, resolving the question of when or if to assist a patient in suicide would require a number of clinical judgments which are currently unsupported by any research.
(10) The other was chaotic, emotionally unsupportive, with high levels of conflict.
(11) Unsupported arm exercise (UAE) further compromises respiratory muscle capacity for ventilation because it requires the muscles' concomitant recruitment in the maintenance of chest wall stabilization.
(12) The elastance from 25 ml of dead space gas did not introduce significant errors into the measurements in any group of infants, but the presence of an unsupported upper airway caused errors of up to 245%.
(13) The axillary lymphatic nodes should be biopsied, since clinical assessment alone, unsupported by other examinations, yields false results in about one-third of the cases.
(14) Though statistically unsupported due to the small numbers involved in this cohort, it appeared that the rougher nature of boys activities and their more active participation in sports were of greater importance than the magnitude of their overjet in determining whether their teeth were at risk from trauma.
(15) It was concluded that the presence of propranolol had prevented more or caused fewer infarctions, perhaps a combination of both, than had the older hypotensive agents unsupported by beta-receptor blockade.
(16) The paradigm of pathology research as an endeavor among grant-funded principal investigators resulting in first-author publications is unsupported by quantitative examination of author profiles extracted from the scientific literature.
(17) In our experience up to now, aid workers who have experienced sexual assault have felt unsupported and disappointed by their organisations.
(18) One year later the condition was only marginally improved: he took only few steps unsupported.
(19) Wishart has had a lifelong interest in polar exploration and in 1992 was part of the first team to walk unsupported to the geomagnetic north pole.
(20) Applications to negatively stained 50S ribosomes and to cryo-electron micrographs of thin vitrified layers of unstained and unsupported tomato bushy stunt and Semliki Forest viruses are described, and the resulting reconstructions are presented.