Sentences with phrase «indefensible at»

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

His combination of size and athleticism makes him nearly indefensible at the college level.

Not exact matches

«Our members have overwhelmingly voted for strike action because British Airways» pay rates are indefensible and the crew are at breaking point.»

Ford calls Mayo Schmidt's salary «morally indefensible,» but did not explain how he would carry out the firing at the company, which is no longer under the province's control.

The Roman Catholic Church is indefensible - look at their record in history.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League For Religious and Civil Rights, called the decision «mind - boggling» and «indefensible and obscene,» speculating that anti-Catholic bigotry was at play.

This is where she decides to go beneath the belt: by implying financial irregularity, or at the least, indefensible extravagance.

Scott Brooks» devotion to Perkins is, at this point, totally indefensible.

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

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.

At a time when the technology exists for radical new forms of decentralised democracy, the Westminster system looks even more sclerotic and indefensible.

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.

«At a time when New York has huge unmet infrastructure needs — for transportation, in particular — it's really indefensible to borrow $ 1.1 billion for capital pork barrel projects,» he wrote in an email.

Over the last four weeks I have done everything I can both at formal meetings and informal meetings trying to convince my colleagues that our current policy on Gaza is morally indefensible, that it's not in British interests and that it will have consequences for us, both internationally and here at home.

The welfare cuts were «indefensible», he said in his resignation letter, and aimed at the poor «because they don't vote for us», he said on TV.

Clinton told donors at the fundraiser that Sanders» «ideas are indefensible,» claiming the middle - class tax increases they require would be both bad policy and a political loser.

Obviously, the Occupy Wall Street Movement has Governor Cuomo and his corporate allies worried and with good reason: Pressure is mounting because corporations evade paying their fair share of taxes through loopholes and political favoritism, while the super wealthy look forward to an indefensible $ 5 billion windfall at year's end.

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.

Mulvaney said the governmentwide cuts are aimed at the «most inefficient, most wasteful, most indefensible» programs.

But those new to the topic will be shocked at the lengths to which the unions will go to defend an indefensible system.

A colleague of mine — Stephen Caldas, Professor of Educational Leadership at Manhattanville College, one of the «heavyweights» who recently visited New York to discuss the state's teacher evaluation system, and who according to Chalkbeat New York, «once called New York's evaluation system «psychometrically indefensible» — wrote me with a critique of New Yorks» VAM which I decided to post for you all here.

Cami Anderson, at the Huffington Post... said, «Our message of excellence hasn't been as compelling as messages anchored in fear and intimidation to preserve an indefensible status quo.»

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

During the Great Patriotic War he'd demolished the bridge at Kalach in defense of Stalingrad, rigged factories with dynamite, reducing them to rubble, and set indefensible refi neries ablaze, dicing the skyline with columns of burning oil.

It remains discouraging to see half the families still impose front load, at least for some share classes — an indefensible and ultimately shareholder unfriendly practice.

The literature about closed - ends is, I think, mind - boggling in terms of the intellectual contortions scholars go through to defend the indefensible; why, if the OPMI market prices efficiently, should closed - ends sell at a discount, or even come into existence in the first place?

To look the other way at one because that neglect, abuse, and killing is done by «friends,» «colleagues,» or simply because the perpetrators call themselves a «humane society» is indefensible.

But bringing all the science into it — the rigorous and the indefensible alike — is, at best, disingenuous.

(I say additional because, as I've pointed out more than once, Dauphine's professional work is simply indefensible in terms of its scientific underpinnings — as she demonstrated in the collection of «facts» she complied for the Spring Issue of The Wildlife Professional and in her infamous «Apocalypse Meow» presentation to an audience of students and local birders at Warnell in 2009.)

Especially if, as is typical of the mainstream media, the 20/20 team takes his indefensible claims at face value — never bothering with even the most obvious follow - up questions.

Why doesn't anybody pin down Steve Holmer or anybody else at the American Bird Conservancy when they make their indefensible claims?

«At any income level — low to medium to high — there's a persistent gap by race, which is completely indefensible.

I moved on to looking at the «why» — why a professional scientist would place ethics aside in his defense of a theory that continued to look indefensible.

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.

Indefensible advocacy at best.

It says Pachauri has spent «too much time defending the indefensible» and that his continued presence at the helm of the IPCC will «undermine efforts to rebuild the panel's authority.»

I guess the people who accuse Dr. Mann just want to crucify him in the media just so they can confuse ordinary people, they don't want to have to defend their indefensible lies in any kind of investigative / legal process where Ph.D. s would be looking at the evidence presented by both sides.