untenable
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Untenable if the Scottish Rugby Union decision-makers do their job.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
Untenable operating expenses closed the prison in 1963 — for example, the approximately 1 million gallons of fresh water that had to be delivered by boat each week.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022
He addressed these problems in a seminal essay published in 1950, “The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism,” and at greater length in “Toward Reunion in Philosophy,” which he dedicated to Goodman and Quine.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2016
Untenable not in light of some abstract congressional “intent” or statutory “spirit” discerned from legislative history, but in light of the very context, operation, and structure of the statute that Congress enacted.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2015
And if only one made the 273-day journey from the orbit of Terra—that would be Plan III; Condition Untenable, Return.
From A Gift For Terra by Holden, Fox B.
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