Sentences with phrase «indefensible as»

A corporation is but an association of individuals with a distinct name and legal entity, and, in organizing itself as a collective body, it waives no appropriate constitutional immunities, and, although it can not refuse to produce its books and papers, it is entitled to immunity under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures, and, where an examination of its books is not authorized by an act of Congress, a subpoena duces tecum requiring the production of practically all of its books and papers is as indefensible as a search warrant would be if couched in similar terms.

(These rain barrel restrictions are as counterproductive and indefensible as the General Mining Act of 1872 that governs public lands).

Despite their silence, though, the message is coming through loud and clear: Dauphine's professional work on the subject of free - roaming cats is as indefensible as the actions that landed her in DC Superior Court.

I've been saying for nearly two years now that Dauphine's professional work on the subject of free - roaming cats — cited and promoted with great enthusiasm before all this nasty press attention — is as indefensible as the actions that landed her in DC Superior Court.

The message is coming through loud and clear: Dauphine's professional work on the subject of free - roaming cats — cited and promoted with great enthusiasm before all this nasty press attention — is as indefensible as the actions that landed her in DC Superior Court.

Limiting the access of middle class families to wide - ranging school choices (and even more - expansive Parent Power) just because they have the perceived financial means to buy homes and send kids to private schools is just as intellectually and morally indefensible as limiting the choices of the poor.

It's unassailable as pop art but somewhat indefensible as a love story between a director and organized crime.

Namely, she views the tolerance of rape as being just as indefensible as the act itself.

But Maguire also insists that an unelected House of Lords «remains indefensible as ever as an institution».

Good teams do not lose points the way we do.They find a way to win.We should not be 6th on the league but we are due to Wengers failings.You can not defend the INDEFENSIBLE as the points we have will tell you we are where we deserve to being my Aunty had Bollocks she would be my uncle.But she's not

Demonizing and condemning people for being themselves is analogous to (and just as indefensible as) racial bigotry and hatred.

When a Rule of this significant size and impact on the economy resorts to misrepresentation cited as fact misleads Americans, it must be indefensible as written.

Despite this, he owns one, which he christened The Indefensible as partial penance for the incongruous luxury.

Not exact matches

But one doesn't have to believe no gods exist to recognise and expose theistic claims as 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.

All this must be explained as extremely misleading, if not indefensible, if God enjoys absolute bliss in eternity.

It is re-casting an indefensible statement in such a way as to change its meaning rather than to simply admit a mistake.

1) Your explanation of homosexuality and same - sex acts has been so «all over the board» as to be indefensible.

'' As usual, Bill, you defend the indefensible by trying to create a diversion.»

Moreover, in invoking George MacDonald — whom I regard as the greatest Christian thinker ever to have written in English, as well as one of three theologians with whom any disagreement is morally indefensible — De La Noval has entirely disarmed me.

This was the familiar response of conservative jurisprudence: to appeal to «tradition» as a way of evading that vexing question of whether the practice in question is morally defensible or indefensible.

«Locking animals in gestation crates is simply indefensible, as is misleading investors and the public about that abuse.»

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

But you seem to be defending the indefensible and a far more obvious conclusion would have been to NOT simply accept the damaging status quo and to demand — as I and countless others have — rightful change.

It is said that all publicity is good publicity, but cynically attempting to create controversy by playing on the abuse all too many mothers receive is indefensible — as well as a breach of Unilever's stated commitments and undermining of the Single Equality Act.

The emotional tone of the event indicates what's at stake: the fear that as more Americans learn the ugly truth about how their food is produced, other companies like BPI might have to defend their indefensible business practices.

No American worker is helped by this indefensible action... as stupid as the Rump looking out for Chinese cell phone company...

He described the move as extraordinary and indefensible, saying that it would cost taxpayers «hundreds of millions of pounds, possibly billions».

Reforming the Lords has become almost as troubled as reforming the Commons back in 1830 - 2, when Tories and Whigs contorted themselves over its indefensible basis of selection.

He said Tory chairman Sayeeda Warsi's claim that a «yes» vote would help the far - right British National party was «as tawdry as it is indefensible».

David Cameron is right to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organisation but he needs to break his silence on Israel's indefensible actions.

She sensationally quit the last government in August 2014, after she described its position on the Israel - Gaza conflict as being «morally indefensible».

Diane described her decision as indefensible at the time as I recall.

Abbott's decision in 2003 to send her son to the private City of London School after criticising colleagues for sending their children to selective schools, which she herself described as «indefensible» and «intellectually incoherent», caused controversy and criticism.

In her strongly worded resignation letter, whose morning publication came as a surprise to No 10, Warsi warned that «our approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible [and] is not in Britain's national interest».

• The Lib Dems have condemned tax avoidance as «morally indefensible».

They accused the government of behaving undemocratically, carrying out an abuse of parliament, denying the democratic right of members of the House, and sending out Andrea Leadsom to defend the indefensible, or as Tory MP Peter Bone put it, sending her «to the wicket not only without a bat, but without pads or a helmet».

THE principle of putting to the British people a voting system such as the Alternative Vote (AV) which violates the basic principle of the individual use of freedom to exercise choice at the ballot box, and not to have that vote reallocated in any other way, is indefensible and dangerous.

The findings will lend weight to the argument of Lady Warsi, who resigned last week as a senior Foreign Office minister after criticising David Cameron for his «morally indefensible» failure to describe the Israeli action as disproportionate.

The heaviest will be her decision to send her son James to a private, fee - paying school, a position she herself described as «indefensible» and «intellectually incoherent», given her position on the left and her criticism of Tony Blair and Harriet Harman for making the same educational choices.

These animals have no chance of living in the wild and their existence is increasingly seen as indefensible.

Some have even gone so far as to say that lowfat diet is «morally and scientifically indefensible».

«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.»

It begins as a clever pseudo-mumblecore provocation with shades of Bruce LaBruce only to quickly turn into indefensible nonsense.

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.

Dirty Grandpa may be an indefensible dud, but the actor's recent output is nowhere near as bad as everyone seems to think.

Though name - checked Roman Polanski's violation of Samantha Geimer is indefensible, I'm loathe to the wellspring of adolescent sanctimony surrounding the episode; and for a while, Hayley is so insufferably self - righteous that the picture looks as though it will concentrate the brunt of its commentary on the hysteria attendant to allegations of child molestation, credibly channelling the worst tendencies of organizations such as Perverted Justice through that most moralistic of creatures: the pubescent female.

Ever since the»70s, American movies have been full of scoundrels, hoodlums, and sociopaths who do all kinds of outrageous and indefensible things, but just about all of them are men, and even their worst behavior gets held up to the light as a mirror of our own darkness.

He said that the 6.1 % interest rates being charged on student debts are «indefensible», and that the scale of debt and interest rates is «about as bad a political gambit as you could imagine».