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It's clear The President realizes that by closing the government and hurting so many American workers and their families, The President has put The President and the country in an untenable position, unfortunately, The President keeps putting forward one-sided and ineffective remedies. There's only way out : open up the government, Mr. The President, and then Democrats and Republicans can have a civil discussion and come up with bipartisan solutions. – Chuck SchumerSchumer	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The verdict is wrong! conviction for complicity is legally untenable. The fact is: Ms. Zschaepe was demonstrably present at no crime scene and never fired a weapon or detonated a bomb. – Mathias Grasel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our models it would probably change turnout by three points and that might just be it, barring a black swan event in some of those Congressional seats, with a Democrat imploding, a three-point shift [in turnout], is probably untenable. – John Thomas	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If [ Trump ] asks Rod to fire Mr. Mueller, Rod would resign. That's my guess, because at that point, it is untenable. You have a President who is not respecting the process and not respecting the Constitution. – Andy White	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is in response to the Chinese government's prohibition of future investments and concerns that their debt levels are untenable, they're trying to protect their balance sheet. – Frank Turner	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Facts in this case do not support the original charges, prosecution is untenable. – John McCarthy	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In the nine months that the ceasefire has been observed, forces have simply paused hostilities while remaining in close proximity: there has been no joint security oversight or move toward unification or demobilization, this would be an untenable status quo even if there were political progress, which there is not. – The International Crisis Group	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This limbo that we're in because of the congressional rider is untenable, it's a big problem. – District Council member Brianne Nadeau	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Planned Parenthood's only denial is that they make money off of baby parts, but that is a desperate lie that becomes more and more untenable as CMP reveals Planned Parenthood's business operations and statements that prove otherwise. – David Daleiden	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Unfortunately, the current situation has become untenable, and I cannot imagine any scenario by which things improve. Oregon deserves a Governor who is fully focused on the duties of state. – Treasurer Ted Wheeler	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. – Anthony Burgess	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It's clear The President realizes that by closing the government and hurting so many American workers and their families, The President has put The President and the country in an untenable position, unfortunately, The President keeps putting forward one-sided and ineffective remedies. There's only way out : open up the government, Mr. The President, and then Democrats and Republicans can have a civil discussion and come up with bipartisan solutions.

– Chuck SchumerSchumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The verdict is wrong! conviction for complicity is legally untenable. The fact is: Ms. Zschaepe was demonstrably present at no crime scene and never fired a weapon or detonated a bomb.

– Mathias Grasel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Our models it would probably change turnout by three points and that might just be it, barring a black swan event in some of those Congressional seats, with a Democrat imploding, a three-point shift [in turnout], is probably untenable.

– John Thomas

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If [ Trump ] asks Rod to fire Mr. Mueller, Rod would resign. That's my guess, because at that point, it is untenable. You have a President who is not respecting the process and not respecting the Constitution.

– Andy White

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is in response to the Chinese government's prohibition of future investments and concerns that their debt levels are untenable, they're trying to protect their balance sheet.

– Frank Turner

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Facts in this case do not support the original charges, prosecution is untenable.

– John McCarthy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the nine months that the ceasefire has been observed, forces have simply paused hostilities while remaining in close proximity: there has been no joint security oversight or move toward unification or demobilization, this would be an untenable status quo even if there were political progress, which there is not.

– The International Crisis Group

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This limbo that we're in because of the congressional rider is untenable, it's a big problem.

– District Council member Brianne Nadeau

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Planned Parenthood's only denial is that they make money off of baby parts, but that is a desperate lie that becomes more and more untenable as CMP reveals Planned Parenthood's business operations and statements that prove otherwise.

– David Daleiden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Unfortunately, the current situation has become untenable, and I cannot imagine any scenario by which things improve. Oregon deserves a Governor who is fully focused on the duties of state.

– Treasurer Ted Wheeler

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

– Anthony Burgess

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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