Sentences with phrase «from indefensible»

She took the child's information for use in deflecting from the indefensible school discipline practices in which her institution engages.

The effort to distract the country from this indefensible record with claptrap about a Republican war on women, a papist plot against access to contraception, legal semantics about same - sex relationships, and other red herrings, has failed.

27 % of American humans suffer from indefensible mental myopia.

Few men with power would ever consider, let alone engage in, the kind of conduct engaged in by Weinstein and others but they must do more than just refrain from the indefensible.

Not exact matches

But an early frontrunner for the worst defense has come from Alabama state auditor Jim Ziegler, who is using the Bible to defend the indefensible.

In what is becoming something of a pig pile on the GOP from the Christian Left, more than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as «morally indefensible.»

Mr Justice Garnham said the delay in deciding whether Mr Birks should face disciplinary charges was «extraordinary and indefensible» and has prevented him from fully pursuing his life as a priest.

The desperation of an industry defending the indefensible is reflected in the bizarre claims being put forward — from «hens in cages are safe from the weather» and «are likely to live longer» — to factory farmed pigs are protected from «climatic extremes».

@john0711 I was asking of players worse than Giroud for Arsenal in terms of finishing.I consisered finishing only.Out of your list when all are in form you can argue that Walcott is better.But in terms of finishing he's the worst of that lot.Only Gervinho's finishing is worse.The guy doesn't deserve this club and so does many of our current players.Face reality he's odinary and if you were a manager and wanted success would you put in a # 30 bid for Giroud?Yet his stats suggest he may be worth # 30 showing the contradiction between stats and real life.The earlier we get some average players out of our club and stop defending the indefensible the better for us all.With this kind of mentality success will be far from this club.

He's also the subject of several national media hot - takes due to an indefensible act he committed on the night of his 18th birthday in his first month at a college over a thousand miles away from home.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

5 mill for kante from a french club... stop trying to defend the indefensible

To give Mahomes «weapons» in addition to what he has and yet neglect the offensive line would be like placing a high - powered firing platform on terrain that is indefensible from a practical standpoint.

It should be more patriotic, not to just defend the indefensible, but to own up to the fact of Nigeria's killing scourge and use the opportunity of the London summit to seek the cooperation of the world and the participating countries in particular to make their vaults inaccessible and unavailable for the proceeds of corruption from Nigeria's kleptomaniac club.

«In addition, any recipient of his campaign funds should donate those monies to domestic violence causes so that some good may come from these abhorrent and indefensible acts,» they said.

However, I would have been obliged to resign from the commission at this point anyway because of the transport secretary's indefensible decision to bail out the Stagecoach / Virgin East Coast rail franchise.

David Cameron's decision to delay withdrawal from the EPP was «indefensible, humiliating and wrong», a Conservative MEP has warned.

In August 2014 she resigned from Government citing the Government's «morally indefensible» policy on Gaza.

The call comes after Baroness Warsi resigned from the government over what she called its «morally indefensible» stance on Gaza.

From Abuja to Rivers State, IGP Idris and his APC associates funded kangaroo walks to defend the indefensible.

The NSA has released an internal email from Edward Snowden to its general counsel's office that it says shows he didn't raise concerns about mass surveillance, contrary to his claims, but Snowden says this release is «incomplete» and doesn't include other correspondence about «indefensible collection activities,» Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman report for the Washington Post.

Yesterday's leaked letter from Liam Fox revealing his view that the proposed cuts currently on the table are «indefensible» has not shifted the prime minister's position, the Financial Times newspaper reported.

«To exclude one very potent source right away from your investigation is highly problematic, and in fact, indefensible,» she said.

He also condemns social services departments across the country for the «indefensible» practice of «decanting» problem children to far - flung homes, away from friends and family, and routinely located in some of the country's worst crime hot spots.»

It is wrong for Speaker Quinn and her campaign to distort and confuse with baseless attacks in order to distract from the Speaker's indefensible policy record.»

A new American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) working group report on the quality of latent fingerprint analysis says that courtroom testimony and reports stating or even implying that fingerprints collected from a crime scene belong to a single person are indefensible and lack scientific foundation.

«To spend a billion dollars to go find life from Florida on Mars is both irresponsible and completely scientifically indefensible.»

Courtroom testimony and reports stating or even those implying that fingerprints collected from a crime scene belong to a single person are indefensible and lack scientific foundation, a new AAAS working group report on the quality of latent fingerprint analysis says.

«As Lesser wrote in a 2013 editorial for the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, «offsets from selling foods that clearly damage human health would, likewise, be indefensible... Serving definitively unhealthful food items to patients, visitors, and staff is simply unethical.»

Two of the actor's last three films have barely received theatrical release and, in between them, this Ghost Rider sequel became the rare Marvel flop, its indefensible $ 51.8 million domestic pull (less than half of its predecessor's take, though it also had half the budget) ranking it lower than all but four films to spawn from the comics publisher: The Punisher and its sequel, Jennifer Garner's Elektra (a baffling spin - off to Johnson's weak Daredevil), and the notorious Howard the Duck.

But it still amounts to indefensible pan and scan, a VHS staple that largely disappeared from home video around the middle of last decade (around the time that VHS itself did).

Probably the worst thing the movie does is betray the viewer's trust with a crucial, shameless, and indefensible misdirect, one of a few moments designed to free the film from convention that instead only underscore this isn't as clever or different as it thinks it is.

Arkansas professor Jay Greene has declared flat - out victory, claiming the teachers unions have become indistinguishable from the tobacco industry, determined to defend turf that is now utterly indefensible.

Collapsing from within, lacking its natural frontier and having lost its border fortifications, the remaining Czech - Slovak lands were indefensible.

Watch the video clip shot by a firefighter grappling to protect a house from the Sand Fire on Saturday to see what indefensible space (in every sense of the word) looks like:

Had it done so, it would have quickly determined that the text was lifted verbatim from Down to Earth (not WWF or New Scientist) and that it was scientifically indefensible.

I've come to the conclusion that the paper acts as an excellent carrot, which when combined with the terrible example of Mann's floundering to defend the indefensible (as the stick) may tempt some people to row back from some silly alarmist positions they've taken on global warming.

It briefly identifies the morally indefensible tactics used by a campaign designed to undermine mainstream climate science in ways that utterly fail to acheive minimum norms of responsible scientific skepticism while at the same time greatly endangering many of the world's poorest people The video distinguishes responsible skepticism, something that should be encouraged, from morally abhorrent disinformation.

A face - saving exit [2] from their politically powerful but scientifically indefensible position may avoid more damage to society.

In stark and indefensible contrast, enormous offshore wind turbines continue to get a free pass from bird, bat, whale and other species protection laws.

It's because contrition is absent from the perpetrators and defence of the indefensible prevails among the defenders of these «inappropriate and misleading» activities.

If you are publishing politically acceptable but scientifically indefensible work, indeed if it is a career and economic necessity that you do so, and you are operating within a system that protects you from the need to defend it, it is not science.

Due to a flawed process the PDCC made a poor, indefensible decision from which it quickly retreated when the winds of fortune changed.

Politically, Poloz's comments were indefensible given the high youth unemployment rate, and we've seen both Joe Oliver and Jason Kenney having to distance themselves from them....

In this context even these students seem to conclude that the risk of allowing this expression is indefensible, and that competing expression challenging their ideas would be ineffective and unsuccessful in dissuading many individuals from joining them.