Sentences with phrase «of indefensible»

Your religious faith that global warming is a lie and your consistent defense of an indefensible graph is rather disturbing.

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

This large a change would bring out pitchforks and torches as people realize just how badly they've been used by a small group of scientists and politicians, how much they are the victims of indefensible abuse of statistics to average in the terrible with the merely poor as if they are all equally likely to be true with randomly distributed differences.

I previously commented that Dr. Judith Curry had prepared a table of different values of the ECS that illustrates the relative impacts of the indefensible cherry picking of a value that suited the agenda of the IWG rather than a more recent value.

Your melodramatic (and obtuse) defense of the indefensible conduct of Peter Gleick actually reveals your own similar lack of ethical standards, and thereby you reveal yourself as one whose opinions and work product should not be taken seriously.

I also noticed the ranting defense of the indefensible by mainstream climate scientists on Real Climate.

Regardless of your robust defense of the indefensible, I'm pretty sure that I'll be proved correct.

She's had a couple of indefensible clunkers, of course — though I have little patience for those who dismiss a «Golden Compass» or an «Australia» out of hand.

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

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.

But hey, we don't want to upset the righteous defenders of the indefensible, those who claim that all people are biased yet none of the referees are biased (look, just bear with me here, I'm trying really hard to dig myself into a deep dark hole...)

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.

Thank you Lorraine, for your unabashed ignorance and your poorly thought out defense of the indefensible.

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.

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

Hence, it has been forced to defend all manner of indefensible beliefs or to allegorize statements that are plainly intended to bear a literal meaning.

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.

Not exact matches

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents GM, Toyota, Volkswagen, and nine other automakers, sent a letter to EPA head Scott Pruitt calling the fuel efficiency rules «the product of egregious procedural and substantive defects» that are «riddled with indefensible assumptions, inadequate analysis and a failure to engage with contrary evidence.»

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.»

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.

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.

Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Kevin called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work «scientifically indefensible» and «fiction».

This conclusion was based on indefensible economic logic and the absence of the IMF's debt sustainability analysis intentionally biased the negotiations.

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

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.

They still vote on the basis of a logically indefensible worldview, and choose their candidates accordingly.

Since the position of the social parasite is one that can not be universalized, it is indefensible to the sensitive conscience when the true position is made clear.

27 % of American humans suffer from indefensible mental myopia.

Her whole concept of morality is just bizarre and 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.»

Luch - Stop defending the indefensible; both the Friar AND the mind - forged delusions of others.

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.

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

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.

And I heartily agree with you that the continued use of «Holy Ghost,» instead of «Holy Spirit,» is indefensible.

They spent so much time and energy defending the indefensible that they failed to make truly relevant the deepest insights of the faith.

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.

The trouble is that such encounters pit an indefensible and outmoded legalism against a propaganda line that says, basically, that there is no problem about homosexuals except that of civil rights.

After all, the Supreme Court itself has now declared that a moral objection to homosexuality is indefensible, a distillation of an unreasoned prejudice.

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.

What wonder then that certain people, instead of finding their own conduct indefensible, find it incumbent upon them to defend Christianity.

One could stop defending the indefensible and search their soul for a more logical understanding of life's riddles.

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».

This idea is indefensible, and it is no use saying «the metaphysical and the modern / scientific concepts of matter are not the same» (his italics): the modern / scientific concept is what a metaphysicianworth his salt should be discussing, not some chimera known only to his philosophical allies.

Kaplan's theology embraced a popular view of the nature of science that would prove ultimately to be indefensible.

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 accredited.

Part of it is perhaps a belated expression of guilt and embarrassment over having for so long defended the indefensible.