Sentences with phrase «with indefensible»

We defend our self - destructive habits (such as drinking and smoking) with indefensible logic.

The consequences of massive immigration in the future in countries with indefensible borders are going to be severe and chaotic.

I have to agree with Kurt, Equilibrium is an awful film but it was fun watching it again with the Indefensible crowd.

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.»

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

When I have seen this term used it has not been to inspire, or to draw us into a closer relationship with God... but to defend the indefensible.

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.

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

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.

The effort to distract the country from this indefensible record with claptrap about a Republican war on women, a papist plot against access to contraception, legal semantics about same - sex relationships, and other red herrings, has failed.

Most moviegoers will never see a more violent movie than this one (that it is rated «R» and not «NC - 17» is indefensible), with its sadistic soldiers and pools of blood.

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.

Their play - action schemes became indefensible with TE Kyle Efaw and these speedy wideouts running on conflicted defenders, like on the winning play against Virginia Tech in the season opener:

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

His constant trying to defend the indefensible with no performing players.

To the guy with the rather long post above trying to defend the indefensible.....

If you want to pick a bone with Reggie, Jihad Ward and Calhoun are picks that are indefensible IMO.

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...)

On the one hand, upon the publication of the Saville report on the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland, he declared with refreshing candour that while he was «deeply patriotic» and did not want to believe anything bad about his country, given the shocking conclusions of the Saville enquiry he was not going to defend the indefensible.

I have no problem with Collins carrying a weapon — but his support for crazy people having absolute second amendment rights is indefensible.

The report adds: «It seems to us indefensible that the Westminster parliament is denied access to the draft conclusions when some other national parliaments are provided with the draft conclusions by their governments and have the opportunity to question ministers about them before the meeting of the European Council.»

Obviously, the Occupy Wall Street Movement has Governor Cuomo and his corporate allies worried and with good reason: Pressure is mounting because corporations evade paying their fair share of taxes through loopholes and political favoritism, while the super wealthy look forward to an indefensible $ 5 billion windfall at year's end.

«Rather than wasting significant taxpayer money on a misguided effort to preserve an indefensible system, the city should be working with TENNY to fix it,» the council members wrote.

It is wrong for Speaker Quinn and her campaign to distort and confuse with baseless attacks in order to distract from the Speaker's indefensible policy record.»

It begins as a clever pseudo-mumblecore provocation with shades of Bruce LaBruce only to quickly turn into indefensible nonsense.

Morally indefensible but totally necessary» — says National Research Assay Group's Eric Byer (Edward Norton) to Aaron Cross, a soldier with moral quibbles played by Jeremy Renner.

Probably the worst thing the movie does is betray the viewer's trust with a crucial, shameless, and indefensible misdirect, one of a few moments designed to free the film from convention that instead only underscore this isn't as clever or different as it thinks it is.

The tension builds with each gruesome thing we see, each morally indefensible act Kate is forced to participate in.

We are about to launch right back into that war, with Hollywood in the most awkward position of defending the indefensible.

A colleague of mine — Stephen Caldas, Professor of Educational Leadership at Manhattanville College, one of the «heavyweights» who recently visited New York to discuss the state's teacher evaluation system, and who according to Chalkbeat New York, «once called New York's evaluation system «psychometrically indefensible» — wrote me with a critique of New Yorks» VAM which I decided to post for you all here.

During the Great Patriotic War he'd demolished the bridge at Kalach in defense of Stalingrad, rigged factories with dynamite, reducing them to rubble, and set indefensible refi neries ablaze, dicing the skyline with columns of burning oil.

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.

The message is coming through loud and clear: Dauphine's professional work on the subject of free - roaming cats — cited and promoted with great enthusiasm before all this nasty press attention — is as indefensible as the actions that landed her in DC Superior Court.

While I don't necessarily expect policymakers to be familiar enough with the issue to recognize the UNL paper for the indefensible trash that it is, I do expect them to make decisions based on some kind of evidence.

I've been saying for nearly two years now that Dauphine's professional work on the subject of free - roaming cats — cited and promoted with great enthusiasm before all this nasty press attention — is as indefensible as the actions that landed her in DC Superior Court.

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.

Just last year, Blanton, whose name has been on these annual reports since 2008, teamed up with Fenwick and five others to co-author Rabies Prevention and Management of Cats in the Context of Trap - Neuter - Vaccinate - Release Programmes — an indefensible misrepresentation of the science (intended, obviously, to undermine TNR).

But when you open with «this IS a bad game,» that is indefensible; nothing «is» anything.

The ground rule here is to stick with the model Spencer actually used, and show how he got his result, how much latitude he gave himself for curve - fitting, and how indefensible his parameter choices are within the model limitations he himself chose.

This is a ridiculous graph that ignores the stop / start nature of technological progress and adoption and falls in the arena of pure assertion (e.g.there ought to be major spikes corresponding to the widespread postwar adoption of automobiles, etc.) This was discussed with Pratt some time ago and any conclusions based on it are indefensible imaginings.

They start out with a compromised and logically indefensible position.

I've come to the conclusion that the paper acts as an excellent carrot, which when combined with the terrible example of Mann's floundering to defend the indefensible (as the stick) may tempt some people to row back from some silly alarmist positions they've taken on global warming.

Fact that we're having this discussion with somebody having a Ph.D who is still defending the indefensible and talking this kind of BS is exactly a symptom of what's wrong with AGW promoting Climate Science, a total absence of scruples.

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.

In conclusion, I believe that Jones» actions regarding the AR4 emails are simply indefensible and arguing with the denialists over the legal technicalities of FOIA law is simply giving them more ammunition.

A corporation is but an association of individuals with a distinct name and legal entity, and, in organizing itself as a collective body, it waives no appropriate constitutional immunities, and, although it can not refuse to produce its books and papers, it is entitled to immunity under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures, and, where an examination of its books is not authorized by an act of Congress, a subpoena duces tecum requiring the production of practically all of its books and papers is as indefensible as a search warrant would be if couched in similar terms.

Yet it remains commercially indefensible to continue in dispute with another, where there is an alternative possibility of early resolution.