Sentences with phrase «indefensible even»

I have tried to show that such a belief is indefensible even on process grounds.

In effect, the newspaper's editorial board is arguing that the coverage that won it the Pulitzer also «disrupted lawful intelligence - gathering» and therefore was largely indefensible even by the standards usually applied to whistle blowers.

Not exact matches

When it comes to terrestrial radio, Ingram didn't even bother trying to defend the fact that AM / FM radio doesn't pay artists and labels when their songs are played — truly an indefensible notion — he simply claimed that it's been that way for decades.

Perhaps it is hard to feel some personal animus toward typical bureau mumblings that defend the indefensible, like Clarence Kelley's apology for the FBI («Power abused perhaps can be explained and possibly even be excused, but only when the explanation is truthful, contrite, and is accompanied by a well - defined plan to prevent a recurrence»).

A loving father and faithful husband, patron of the arts and friend of the poor, Cromwell not only defends the indefensible, and even legitimates it, by drafting new laws, he also, in his sweet time, takes definitive revenge on his enemies: those who stood in judgment on his patrons, Cardinal Wolsey and the king, and those who underestimated himself, the lowborn blacksmith's son.

I seriously doubt any true Christians would even bother reading a story like this and certainly not taking the time to post your defensive statements of your indefensible postion.

Why even try to defend the indefensible?

Honestly, even though they're of minimal importance in the grand scheme of things, the player options for Meeks and Smith are two of the most egregious, inexplicable, and indefensible contracts given up by Grunfeld.

Similarly, I find it inexplicable and indefensible for the wider midwifery community's failure to call the Sheena Byroms and Hannah Dahlens to account for their reprehensible claims that dead babies are fake news and grieving survivors have nefarious motives or even deserve their suffering.

This curious warning is the not - too - distant cousin of the indefensible Western myth that newborns can «manipulate» their parents, even before they have the mental ability to do so.

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

HOUSE DIVIDED: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL, 9/8: «The New York City Police Department's indefensible program of spying on law - abiding Muslims in their neighborhoods and houses of worship has turned out to be even more aggressive than earlier reports had shown.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Even so, the shooting provision of HB 210 strikes me as essentially indefensible.

Even before considering the health issues, it is a reckless and indefensible practice to import stray animals into a country that pours hundreds of millions of public and private dollars annually, (and has for decades) into animal control and «pet overpopulation» problems!

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.

Louise's apparent complete naiveté explains why she is prepared to defend even the indefensible.

Even the defenders of peer review have long since moved off that indefensible hill.

in Argersinger, the Court today retreats to the indefensible position that the Argersinger «actual imprisonment» standard is the only test for determining the boundary of the Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel in state misdemeanor cases, thus necessarily deciding that, in many cases (such as this one), a defendant will have no right to appointed counsel even when he has a constitutional right to a jury trial.

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.