Sentences with phrase «so indefensible»

Why exactly does Griffin consider the responses to evil offered by FWTs to be so indefensible?

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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».

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

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

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».

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

you two angels have been so afraid and so ashamed that her statements were indefensible, you finally realized «koo koo» was your best answer.

Indeed, I've decided that one of the greatest and most indefensible burdens pastors bear is knowing so many secrets about their parishioners.

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.

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.

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.

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.

These industries would prefer that the spotlight wasn't on them because so many of their practices are indefensible.

And his longtime management team — the folks so often left in the unenviable position of trying to defend the indefensible — couldn't help.

@john0711 I was asking of players worse than Giroud for Arsenal in terms of finishing.I consisered finishing only.Out of your list when all are in form you can argue that Walcott is better.But in terms of finishing he's the worst of that lot.Only Gervinho's finishing is worse.The guy doesn't deserve this club and so does many of our current players.Face reality he's odinary and if you were a manager and wanted success would you put in a # 30 bid for Giroud?Yet his stats suggest he may be worth # 30 showing the contradiction between stats and real life.The earlier we get some average players out of our club and stop defending the indefensible the better for us all.With this kind of mentality success will be far from this club.

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

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.

«In addition, any recipient of his campaign funds should donate those monies to domestic violence causes so that some good may come from these abhorrent and indefensible acts,» they said.

It saddens me to see Vince Cable attempting to defend the indefensible 2013 Tory budget, a budget so contrary to the

Many Tories early in the debate - the initial stages took the form of Sir George Young, the Leader of the House, and his Shadow, Angela Eagle, giving statements on behalf of their leaderships - gave answers which followed the format of «Of course the current Lords is indefensible, but so is this Bill».

He pledged the Tory government would never abandon Britain's nuclear deterrent, saying doing so would be «indefensible» in a world of rogue states developing nuclear weapons.

It was a devastating Taliban attack, launched on an eastern Afghanistan outpost positioned so poorly it was nearly indefensible.

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

It would be indefensible to label HOWARD THE DUCK the worst big - budget movie ever made, so let's just designate it one of the worst big - budget movies ever made.

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.

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.

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

So it seems I'm absolutely indefensible — and why I have six quiet little watercolors in this Biennial.

Had it done so, it would have quickly determined that the text was lifted verbatim from Down to Earth (not WWF or New Scientist) and that it was scientifically indefensible.

However, not commenting is not nearly so bad as defending the indefensible.

your lot will all of a sudden discover that your indefensible position must be abandoned and that oh my gosh things are so very very bad we have to impose martial law like control of the working and middle class

So unfortunately for you, when you defend the indefensible, and attack a very honorable honest scientist who's papers you are not qualified to carry, your credibility is in fact justly reduced to the company you keep.

That's why its so important the alarmists and many still try to defend the indefensible.

Don't get me wrong John Kennedy is a genuinely impressive scientist but the record he seeks to defend is indefensible for such large parts of the record and in so many places.

If you are so against the circling the wagons strategy, I wonder why so many of your posts seem to contribute to defending the indefensible (viz the collusions noted above).

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.

It seems a little impractical sacrificing credibility to go some other more twistedly - challenging route — and it raises the question of why that other route is so motivating... Why is it worth a fight defending the indefensible??

It's this endless defense of an obvious error that is so egregious and indefensible.

That was probably a good call for them — there's only so far one can go in defending the clearly indefensible.

If you are publishing politically acceptable but scientifically indefensible work, indeed if it is a career and economic necessity that you do so, and you are operating within a system that protects you from the need to defend it, it is not science.