Sentences with phrase «indefensible in»

Groups like the National Farmers Union said direct payments were indefensible in good times and insufficient aid when markets slump... price supports and counter-cyclical payments are more popular among farm groups.

However, they seem to be sticking to much the same approach in the latest draft of the AR5, which is completely indefensible in my view.

(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.)

Good indie authors shouldn't protect the entire category because it's indefensible in the eyes of the majority of readers who cross 100 unedited self - published books, with non-existing story structure, with plot holes, POV head hopping, excruciatingly stupid cliff hangers, and more before they encounter a good book.

It is kind of indefensible in logic, but it is emotionally appealing to lots of people.

Yet we don't have to defend the indefensible in church history or overlook stale and shallow church rituals to embrace the good and needful parts of organized expression of our faith.

The decline in US infrastructure investment is indefensible in light of recent declines in interest rates, employment opportunities and materials costs.

Not exact matches

Mitch Bainwol, president and chief executive of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said in a letter to Pruitt the decision was «the product of egregious procedural and substantive defects» and is «riddled with indefensible assumptions, inadequate analysis and a failure to engage with contrary evidence.»

This chatter about a rate hike in September has become indefensible.

LiveJournal was an early - mover in the blog category, built a small but indefensible moat based on users, and was eventually overtaken by better - funded, better - architected rivals like Blogger and WordPress.

«Worst,» Cox continued in the letter, «we believe that Social Security numbers were not encrypted, a cybersecurity failure that is absolutely indefensible and outrageous.»

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.

One of my mentors, the late Reid Buckley (younger brother to William F. Buckley), in his text titled Strictly Speaking: Reid Buckley's Indefensible Handbook on Public Speaking, described this quality of authenticity very succinctly.

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.

The obvious lessons require no explanation: don't let your CEO say terrible things in the company name; don't defend the indefensible; if you find yourself in a reputational hole, stop digging.

The notion of being «behind the curve» in that regard seems indefensible.

The greatness of America is rooted in the virtue of our principles; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that government must be by the consent of those who are governed; that it is precisely the defense of rights and due process for the utterly indefensible that secures the rights of all others.

This way, he wasn't put on trial, housed in an American prison paid for by taxpayers, fed our food or given the opportunity to defend his indefensible actions and then become a living martyr for his supporters.

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

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

Incredible public displays of contempt for white opinion, in defense of the indefensible, and all with the tacit, if not explicit, support of much of mainstream black opinion.

Indeed, one can argue that this early, excruciating experience of existential anxiety and humiliated pride — Mantel's awareness of her own inadequacy and her never - forgotten failure to discharge a responsibility laid too soon on her small shoulders, in effect, to defend the indefensible — conditions her identification, in later life, with Thomas Cromwell.

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.

Because what, after all, is Cromwell famous for in history if not for defending the indefensible, not just once but numerous times?

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

No amount of logical gymnastics, and the religious do take them to Olympic levels to try and defend the indefensible, can fully explain away all of the glaring inconsistencies in creationism.

This vagueness doubtless is partly due to the conflict of traditions — a conflict in which exponents of the primacy of the «secret call» may take the position that it alone is adequate while others who emphasize the first importance of church call come to the indefensible position of renouncing the importance of command and obedience enacted in solitariness.

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.

Ratzinger comments that the great synthesis found in the traditional Christian interpretation, «would become problematic when historical consciousness developed rules of interpretation that made Patristic exegesis appear non-historical and so objectively indefensible».

The defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people.

By the beginning of this century a great change had taken place and James Orr prefaced his defense of the traditional position by sketching the widespread questioning and rejection of «bodily resurrection» by Christian scholars.10 In 1907 Kirsopp Lake published the first study of the resurrection, in English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accrediteIn 1907 Kirsopp Lake published the first study of the resurrection, in English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accreditein English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accredited.

And Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and one of Trump's earliest supporters, said the «lewd, offensive, and indefensible» comments weren't enough «to make me vote for Hillary Clinton.»

In other words, if politics is reducible to technocratic competence then there is something benighted about the clash of interests — out interests seem to be little more than idiosyncratic expressions of our rationally indefensible attachments.

These are indefensible characteristics in my world.

«To enter the Kingdom of God» is an idiom found both in Judaism and in the early Church, and it is, therefore, indefensible on the basis of the criterion of dissimilarity.

The preacher may devote the message to a defense of the indefensible, each stage of his development moving his hearers progressively in the opposite direction.

In addition to being indefensible on moral grounds, a pre-emptive war against Iraq would damage the already difficult relations between Christians and Muslims.

If there is no clearly stated directive in the Bible to marginalize and ostracize gay people, then Christians continuing to do so is morally indefensible, and must cease.

In his novel 1984 and in his famous essay «Politics and the English Language,» George Orwell warns against those who use words to defend the indefensiblIn his novel 1984 and in his famous essay «Politics and the English Language,» George Orwell warns against those who use words to defend the indefensiblin his famous essay «Politics and the English Language,» George Orwell warns against those who use words to defend the indefensible.

Dehumanizing the «enemy» and euphemizing the weapons of war and war itself is a deadly combination that, unfortunately, has historically been successful in defending the indefensible.

Hartshorne's panpsychism seems to require him to take his concept of the participation of selves in one another to speculative limits that seem, to Brightman, empirically indefensible.

Lamin Sanneh reviews a new work by Leslie Newbigin in which Newbigin claims the focus on the dichotomy between «knowledge» of so - called objective facts and «belief» in so - called subjective values is a dichotomy that is rationally indefensible.

To them, religious claims looked muddleheaded and indefensible «The kind of student that I myself was, the kind of students that I have addressed best through the years, were students who have had the confidence in the meaningfulness of Christianity vitiated by intellectual criticism..

Our understanding of sex in the narrower sense of genital activity and in the wider sense of relationship with others has been so altered in recent years that the assumed fixity of thought in this area, with reference to auto - erotism, homo - erotism, and hetero - erotism, along with the related fixity which has been traditionally accepted in respect to judgements upon the right or wrong ways of sexual expression, has been shown to be indefensible by any intelligent standards.

Whitehead not only discerns that it is necessary to specify different types of abstraction over against one another, but also sees that the popular opposition of the «concrete world» and «abstract theory» is unfruitful and, in its forms up to that time, indefensible.

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.

Those who reacted in a purely defensive way to the presentation of Darwin's theories failed to grasp the truth of the new scientific discoveries and set their minds and hearts against the new discoveries, spending so much time and energy defending the indefensible that they failed to make truly relevant the deepest insights of the faith.

«It is indefensible for Smithfield to allow its sows to linger in crates barely larger than their bodies for months on end.»