Untenable

Moosa, on Wednesday to intervene in what it called the untenable situation of South Africa's conservation sector. ❋ Unknown (1999)

His plan to offer up the goddess Freia to the giants who built Valhalla is untenable from the start, as it would mean forcing the Gods to give up their eternal youth (her golden apples do a lot more than just keep the doctor away -- and remember, there was no Botox in 19th century Germany). ❋ Albert Imperato (2010)

There are many innocent victims but also many many people that put themselves in untenable positions with purchases that they could barely afford and too little savings to weather a storm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mostly all the European countries tried and find themselves in untenable positions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He must be at liberty to assume disguises, to balance precariously in untenable positions, to sacrifice the letter of the truth to the spirit of it. ❋ Unknown (1939)

The 29-year-old has claimed his position in the England squad is "untenable" - a decision related to the alleged affair between his former Chelsea team-mate John Terry and Vanessa Perroncel, the mother of his young son. ❋ BreakingNews.ie / TCM (2010)

At a farmers 'regional congress at George, WCAU chairman Chris du Toit described as untenable and draconian proposals allowing farmworkers to strike while receiving all the benefits of life on farms, and trade unions access to farmers' financial statements. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Croghan remarked, as we listened to the uproar, "Fort Stephenson can hardly be called untenable against heavy artillery." ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)

His departure - after he said his position was "untenable" - followed those of Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Giles Fraser and part-time chaplain Fraser Dyer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For it is evident that the principle which silly and ignorant fanatics have called untenable is essential to the institution of property, and that, if you take away that principle, you will produce evils resembling those which would be produced by a general confiscation. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

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. ❋ Jason Kincaid (2010)

Speaking arrogantly, Obama told the Green Bay audience, regarding the expenditures on health care in the United States, "That is untenable, that is unacceptable, and I will not allow it as President of the United States." ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is untenable, that is unacceptable, and I will not allow it as President of the United States. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Minister Fiifi Kwetey has described as untenable demands for further increases in producer price of cocoa by the opposition New Patriotic Party. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Letters sent to the president of Bowie State University by its faculty association Monday describe an "untenable" campus climate under the school's new provost and question "who is in charge" at Maryland's oldest historically black university. ❋ Daniel De Vise (2010)

Charles Clarke, the former Labour home secretary, and Max Mosley, the former Formula 1 boss who won £60,000 in damages from the tabloid for breach of privacy, said Coulson's position was "untenable". ❋ David Batty (2010)

Max Mosley and Charles Clarke describe ex-News of the World editor's position as 'untenable' on BBC's Question Time ❋ David Batty (2010)

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, asked to respond Tuesday to Republican criticism, said it is "untenable" for the GOP to make the case that "we don't need to fix this system." ❋ Victoria McGrane (2010)