Sentences with phrase «untenable situation»

Several years into various efforts across the country to scale back suspensions and expulsions, more and more teachers are saying they feel they are being put in untenable situations.

A nation that has never known anything but military victory has recently twice had to settle for a draw, not because we have really been beaten, but because our very intoxication with our own power has led us into untenable situations where the cost of «victory» became so great that it was no longer tolerable.

In situations like this, the achievement often can not be described in terms of top - ranks or President's Club awards based on huge profitability numbers, but rather must show that a previously untenable situation has been reversed.

I still admire Luciano Spalletti for making the difficult decisions, and the grace with which Totti has handled this has only made him more estimable in my eyes, but the directors of this club have taken an already untenable situation and managed to make it worse.

If you don't have a clue about who's in the game or the pool and what they're doing, the patsy at the party is most likely you (or it will be soon enough) and that's an unhappy and ultimately untenable situation that never ends well for the ones who end up with the short end of the stick.

«If they don't give them the resources to do this, you're putting FDA in a totally untenable situation,» says Robert Buchanan of the University of Maryland, College Park.

They are both in completely untenable situations and need to make very difficult decisions, but they can't.

Despite being somewhat pathetic, Mitch is a very likable if flawed protagonist thrust into one untenable situation after another.

The rescue gives priority to dogs who are facing euthanasia, living in shelters or pounds, and living in untenable situations.

often can not be described in terms of top - ranks or President's Club awards based on huge profitability numbers, but rather must show that a previously untenable situation has been reversed.

The Chinese are in an untenable situation where they live off their main trade partners while advocating globalization, multilateralism and the empty shell of «win - win cooperation.»

For the next two hours the partners were canvassed for ideas on how to place Purssell in such an untenable situation that he would have to quit.

So what was being financed was an untenable situation, a «hothouse» environment for credit decoupled from the «real» economy.

With such a standard, accused priests are placed in an untenable situation.

Hungary's new office will have a starting budget of $ 3.35 million with which to help persecuted Christians, to raise international awareness of their «untenable situation,» and to coordinate humanitarian efforts, Balog said.

Creating an untenable situation again.

It is your pick because you are weak and if you are working for an owner that makes you pick against your will — you are in an untenable situation and you are much better off just to quit rather than make a bad pick.

It is now an untenable situation.

If one parent demands loyalty over another parent, the children are put in an untenable situation.

Seven years ago, I was experiencing the famine that is infertility; Crystal was dealing with the feast that is an unintended pregnancy, while living in an untenable situation.

Responding to remarks by various stakeholders during a Town Hall meeting in Government House, Makurdi, on Monday, the President also urged them to show restraint and allow the security agencies to handle the untenable situation.

«New York State has passed a terribly flawed TNC bill that compromises the safety of Westchester County residents and puts the County Legislature in an untenable situation.

It's an untenable situation for a Justice Secretary to be on the wrong side of both the right - wing press and women's groups.

«This is not about opposing science and politics... or about opposing reason and emotion,» says Ries's aide Patrice Audibert, but rather about unlocking an untenable situation and enabling governments to respond to strong public concerns.

Has the sensibility of a Hollywood «woman's picture» of the»40s — the weepie saga of a married woman trapped in an untenable situation.

Wrong Answer will be based in part on a New Yorker article about the Atlanta teachers who were in an untenable situation — the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed in 2001 threatened to shut down the Parks Middle School based on standardized test scores with no consideration for testing bias.

Riggen also talked at length with the documentarian about her experience finding her authority undermined on set, especially while making the fact - based drama «The 33,» where she said a white male unit director kept overruling her and setting the schedule for production, until it became an untenable situation that she couldn't get the producers to acknowledge.

The answer to this untenable situation, said Coleman, was to change the norms of that culture within the institution, the school, that the adolescents found themselves inhabiting.

The limited nature of the sponsor pool, together with an inefficient (and competitively stagnant) brokering system for matching schools in need of assistance with viable sponsors, have also resulted in the untenable situation in which almost half of the sponsored academies that have had an inspection post-intervention are themselves rated «inadequate» or «requiring improvement».

The national testing hysteria has caused districts to increase graduation requirements to the point where we have created an untenable situation for our students.»

Jill Farrant, one of the many scientists working in the field, points out that research has become even more urgent as climate change and an increase in population have led to an untenable situation in many regions of the world, including in Africa, where most of her study focuses.

Caught in an untenable situation, facing death in the den of a dragon, they are saved by the brave fighters of Sanctuary who offe...

But this concentration of manga fame into a few J.K. Rowlings and James Pattersons is an untenable situation, since it means there's too much money riding on their manga for them to end their series or try anything interesting.

If true, that's an untenable situation for RIM, which really needs to hit the mark with the PlayBook, and it may cause a delay of the launch — if only for a bit.

They were in the untenable situation of having too much money to qualify for special programs but still looking at possible foreclosure in the distant future.

That would, of course, be an untenable situation and would probably qualify as animal hoarding so, as hard as it is to give them up, it is, in the end, the best thing to do.

«It's an untenable situation long - term, and somebody has to say we can not operate this gem this way,» said Feinstein, a California Democrat.

Blocked by snow and ice, their direction seems impossible to navigate — an untenable situation that passes on the subject's state of anxiety to the viewer.

Cooper is now in an untenable situation with the community, because they were not given all the facts.»

All four films deal with the central concept of Totalitarianism, whereby bureaucracy imposed on individual lives leads to untenable situations.

«I think she was put in an untenable situation by a number of others,» Robertson told the Sun - Times.

3) The lack of LPP, or maintaining an exclusive route to licensing through articling which already largely excludes marginalized communities, has already created an untenable situation.