supportable

How To Use supportable In A Sentence

• The company said yesterday that that burden had become 'unsupportable in the long term'. Times, Sunday Times
• The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
• No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere than it exercises, even unintentionally, an insupportable tyranny.
• Or do they try to design cleverer, more desirable stuff and hope that this is ethically supportable and economically viable? Times, Sunday Times
• It is said that they are in flight from an insupportable nervous strain, from which they find temporary assuagement only in sleep.
• That is a tired, sexist and, for eight years at least, utterly unsupportable argument. Times, Sunday Times
• Infrastructure has the dual role of making development possible and daily life supportable. Times, Sunday Times
• To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
• The scene, so highly interesting to those who witnessed it, was to him insupportable, and he had left the room in agony, bitterly inveighing against his own folly, for having suffered it to take place, and secretly denouncing future vengeance upon the usurper of his rights, for so he basely termed the artless Yamboo. Yamboo; or, the North American Slave
• He entered a room, we are told, with a bold and confident air; and we have it from another witness that he was _d'une suffisance insupportable_. [ The Youth of Goethe