How To Use Indefensible In A Sentence
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Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
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It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources.
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But that doesn't justify this behavior, which is indefensible on several grounds.
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This means that universal credit changes will today become politically indefensible.
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The fact that he cites, in his defense, a first class degree from Cambridge ‘specializing in philosophy’ only makes more indefensible his howlers and misconceptions.
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It is bad enough we find ourselves in an intellectually indefensible position.
The Sun
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To argue otherwise is trying to defend the indefensible.
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The fact that it is possible for a doctor to continue to practice for decades after qualification without ever opening a book or taking any other steps to keep up to date has long seemed indefensible.
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From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited.
Ellis Weiner: International Man of Mystery
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To do so would clearly be morally indefensible.
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There is no advantage to be gained by Opposition Members seeking to defend the indefensible.
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My lack of faith and fear about writing now seemed puny and indefensible.
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Anything less will amount to a pay cut and that is morally and economically indefensible.
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I find walking boots morally indefensible in their ugliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources.
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The blockade has long since become indefensible.
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It would be morally indefensible for her to desert her father now.
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Instead, they defend an act which is simply indefensible.
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If the hearings uncover some incontrovertible evidence of corruption he could look like a defender of the indefensible.
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Because you chose to engage in hyperbole, and use the word “dwarfed”, you are now in an indefensible position, and you know it.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
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This theme is one of the elements in his new work, a detailed examination of the brutal history and indefensible consequences of aerial bombardment.
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Such omissions may have been plausible in the first blush of enthusiasm for reform, but they seem indefensible after many decades of evidence that adventurous teaching is rare. quoted from 《teaching practice: plus que ca change》, p38
Human-Error Processor
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The stance is otherwise totally indefensible.
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Although it must be defended, the British budget rebate is indefensible.
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We know why it has happened, but it's a historical anomaly and indefensible in democratic terms.
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She described the new policy as "morally indefensible".
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extreme and indefensible polar positions
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In other instances, some of these learned men and women, devoid of principles, have thought nothing of taking up watertight and indefensible cases just for the money.
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The law is morally indefensible and in need of reform.
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That, to me, is totally unacceptable and morally indefensible.
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The judge said that this position was indefensible and there are many innocent people whose DNA is on the database who feel the same.
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The blockade has long since become indefensible.
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If the hearings uncover some incontrovertible evidence of corruption he could look like a defender of the indefensible.
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If these were switched off, the licence fee would become indefensible.
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With the single exception of Ferdinand Lassalle, there was no revolutionary leader who was not an obvious impossibilist in practical politics; and Lassalle got himself killed in a romantic and quite indefensible duel after wrecking his health in a titanic oratorical campaign which convinced him that the great majority of the working classes were not ready to join him, and that the minority who were ready did not understand him.
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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The idea that our arguments and ideas are indefensible is patently ridiculous.
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The city was situated in such a way that made it indefensible against attack, leading them to compromise rather than be conquered.
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For him, this is the be all and end all of everything, his key unargued and indefensible bedrock presupposition that simply must be accepted.
Archive 2008-01-01
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They can see them boobing their speculations about indefensible targets from station to station on television, or read articles like Garwin's to replenish their strategies of mass assassination.
'Facing Up to Things'
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But although I've long reckoned him to be a grade 1 careerist and a bit of a chancer, I've always strangely liked him, can appreciate his strengths, certainly his hard work, and at times his sheer balls when defending the indefensible.
Archive 2009-03-01
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However, the Department of Homeland Security's practice of jailing "unadjusted" refugees after a year is indefensible.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Quiet Raids, Slippery ICE and Grinches
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This process of distillation allows us to impose order upon chaos and to justify the indefensible.
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His logic is flawed, indefensible and dangerous.
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This means that universal credit changes will today become politically indefensible.
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If this is so, it is worse than morally indefensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Posterior Analytics II. 19 is difficult to interpret, and recent philosophers have often found it unsatisfying since (as often construed) it appears to commit Aristotle to a form of apriorism or rationalism both indefensible in itself and not consonant with his own insistence on the indispensability of empirical inquiry in natural science.
Aristotle's Logic
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And, the obvious political scheming is equally indefensible to the point that unless I hear something that modifies, retracts or in some way qualifies what I think he is saying, I will no longer be able to speak on his behalf.
Obama’s Chat With Bill Clinton - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Every time the army was caught out there would be some toffee-nosed officer defending the indefensible and whitewashing the problem.
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Now it is abruptly condemned as morally indefensible and politically anachronistic.
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It is difficult to calculate how many billions of dollars the government spends on indefensible, if not illegal, self-promotion.
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The judge said that this position was indefensible and there are many innocent people whose DNA is on the database who feel the same.
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To me, trying to "conserve" the status quo is a far more indefensible view, since the status quo is not all that great.
Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy
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We are forced to defend a system we know to be indefensible.
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His view is simple: all real power must stay in the Commons - a laudable idea when the second chamber is a mix of heredity and appointment, but indefensible where it is democratically elected.
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Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible.
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The reason for this legislative skullduggery is obvious: No one wants to publicly defend the indefensible.
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But if the argument against extra-judicial disconnection is so strong then surely a policy that lets network service providers keep millions of people from having a usable, fast and reliable connection to the internet must also be morally indefensible?
‘The offline masses lack a voice …’
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Marjorie's book will exhilarate you, because it is such a thorough de-masking of the indefensible.
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When that censorship is endorsed by a legal judgment it becomes indefensible and sinister.
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Her silly behaviour puts her in an indefensible position.
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Yes, budget deficits and indefensible tax cuts are moral issues, too.
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If this is so, it is worse than morally indefensible.
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Haggis said that he felt "dumbstruck and horrified," adding, "Tommy, if only a fraction of these accusations are true, we are talking about serious, indefensible human and civil-rights violations.
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Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
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Northcross says "... advocating civil disobedience is indefensible ...
NASA Employees Can Now Invoke The Hansen Precedent - NASA Watch
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All except the most rabid racists considered racial segregation immoral and indefensible.
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I'm sure many of our posters will try to find words to defend Hansen, but advocating civil disobedience is indefensible, even if his climate conjectures prove to be correct. mike shupp
NASA Employees Can Now Invoke The Hansen Precedent - NASA Watch
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Here they come, the hoary historical clichés, wheeled out to defend the indefensible.
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I find walking boots morally indefensible in their ugliness.
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Why not get it done to save all concerned an indeterminable, indefensible amount of time, money and credibility?
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We expect, and demand, that the authorities do all within their power to put a definitive end to this utterly indefensible action.
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But to risk an animal's wellbeing in the heat of a race is indefensible and unacceptable.
The Sun
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Here they come, the hoary historical clichés, wheeled out to defend the indefensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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But letting criminals off lightly to save money would be morally indefensible.
The Sun
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Benchmarking awards, seen by many as utterly indefensible and absurd under current economic conditions, will be paid.
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Now it is abruptly condemned as morally indefensible and politically anachronistic.
Times, Sunday Times
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If these were switched off, the licence fee would become indefensible.
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To do so would clearly be morally indefensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is fundamentally flawed and scientifically indefensible.
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This process of distillation allows us to impose order upon chaos and to justify the indefensible.
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If he unprovokedly I know it isn’t a word, but it should be pointed the shotgun at them, it’s entirely indefensible that he wasn’t charged and they were.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Should We Be Blogging About the “Jena 6″?:
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This means that universal credit changes will today become politically indefensible.
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During the debate in the U.N. Security Council on January 6, 2009 the Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev delivered a speech that can only be described as masterfully crafted lies, myths, and spin to defend the indefensible in Israel's "genocide du jour" against the Palestinians that began in 1944.
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If attaching strings to future generations without their consent is wrong, the Social Security system is indefensible.
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This means that universal credit changes will today become politically indefensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite regular meetings, you fail to notify your superiors of problems both with the build and with the budget, putting them in an indefensible public position.
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His regime is morally indefensible, but your justification of continued military action in Libya on the basis of evidence that lies between the dubious and spurious brings to mind the phrase "weapons of mass destruction".
Letters: Destabilised Libya will be ripe for al-Qaida
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EPSTEIN: I stipulate to what Tom just said, I agree that the lack of his forthcomingness in the beginning phases of this was morally indefensible and was, if nothing else, I think harmful.
CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2001
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But letting criminals off lightly to save money would be morally indefensible.
The Sun
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For a side that prides itself on its parsimonious nature, the case for the defence was frankly indefensible.
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And defenses of his indefensible argument are indefensible too.
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Why do you pettifog about actions that would be indefensible in any other realm?
Sternberg complaint dismissed - The Panda's Thumb
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‘It is indefensible that you have not made funding for homeland security your top priority,’ the letter said.
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Except at times and in places influenced by Catholic principles, what medical writers call "obstetric" abortion, as distinct from "criminal" (though both are indefensible on moral grounds), has always been a common practice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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However, that sort of position is logically untenable and morally indefensible.
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For, as the action of writing is performed by bending the thumb forward, the retroversion or bending back of that joint did not unaptly point to the opposite of that action, implying that it was the will of the audience that the author should _write no more: _ a much more significant, as well as more humane, way of expressing-that desire, than our custom of hissing, which is altogether senseless and indefensible.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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How about morally indefensible, legally absurd, and nationally divisive?
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However we use the revenues, we should resolve the indefensible perversities of national energy policy once and for all, starting with the elimination of federal subsidies for Big Oil.
William S. Becker: Big Oil's Political Ploy
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Hanover had been made as secure as any flat and virtually indefensible country could be.
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But to risk an animal's wellbeing in the heat of a race is indefensible and unacceptable.
The Sun
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It is bad enough we find ourselves in an intellectually indefensible position.
The Sun
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Yet the worst that can reasonably be said about his performance is that he made an indefensible remark from which he ineptly tried to climb down at first prompting.
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When that censorship is endorsed by a legal judgment it becomes indefensible and sinister.
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