| 词汇 | example_english_indefensible |
| 释义 | Examples of indefensibleThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. By the mid-1970s a resurgent new right was breeding a much more aggressive ' defence ' of the formerly largely indefensible. He has said that: (i) it is probably the most common means of controlling human behaviour; (ii) it is ineffective; (iii) it is morally indefensible. As we noted at the outset, not all sources of order in the international system are equally defensible; some may be totally indefensible. A variety of cloaked and disguised hazards can intrude on the policy-making process and, in the name of justice, lead to indefensible results. Despite the benefits of modelling, inappropriate or indefensible applications can have unwanted and even disastrous consequences. Today, union leaders increasingly accept that the demand for exclusive access and monopoly of representation and employment is indefensible in a modern democratic society and an open economy. Globalisation has been identified as a major driving force - an inexorable economic transition responsible for undermining nation states, rendering public spending indefensible, dismantling welfare states and over-riding democratic political control. Here it is to be observed that the words indefensible and dead-end are not chosen arbitrarily, but rather, are motivated by their respective underlying conceptual metaphors. I felt that the computer might answer some of his criticisms, that it might offer a hope for an enterprise that he seemed to think was intellectually indefensible. The first point regarding the quantitative count of late learners who obtained high grammaticality scores is suggestive at best but essentially indefensible as a statistical argument. As taxpayers, we should not be asked to foot the bill for that kind of indefensible behaviour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To do so would be educationally and morally indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Adopting this view is certain to replace the present muddle with a new, and equally indefensible, shambles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The present position all too clearly is indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether we think it is a lovely, a ridiculous, or an indefensible plan, that is the situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am saying now that the manner in which this question is being discussed is utterly indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When one adds the substantial cost of transporting that coal, one realises that that importation is almost indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old concept of the average child identical with all the rest is narrow and indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason that he sounded unconvincing might be to his credit because he was, after all, trying to defend the indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Six years' detention is indefensible by any yardstick whatever and an offence against her human rights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everybody admits that this property qualification is entirely antiquated and indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, it is also a massive unwarranted subsidy for the private school system, which is indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Belatedly, the most recent research findings have convinced me that tobacco advertising is indefensible—even with its health warning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He does so because his own case is indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What desperate efforts by the pundits—and we have many of them—to defend the indefensible! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To say that it was only a mistake seems to me indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am appealing to him to change an indefensible system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Selection at a point in the distribution of ability which offered so many opportunities for error was indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To me, that is completely indefensible in the matter of health. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The delay in this matter is quite indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some ways, it is even more indefensible to suggest that it should be licensed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The failure to do anything to re-expand council house building is equally indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that the amendment is wholly illogical and indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A standard voice telephony call along a straightforward transatlantic cable with indefensible rights of user attached has three components. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be quite clear that the current procedures are simply indefensible; and no one has attempted to defend them in this debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe the figure of 25 to be arbitrary and indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everybody is realising that the conditions as regards slums are indefensible now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will find themselves defending the indefensible, supporting the unsupportable and trying to justify the unjustifiable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are all kinds of indefensible anomalies in the law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cost rents are a totally indefensible subsidy to the people who happen to be living in such houses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To say that they are against both would be totally irresponsible and quite indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cost in time and effort of that bureaucratic nightmare is indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is at the moment an indefensible inconsistency that ought to be put right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As he knows perfectly well, they are regarded as indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the past, there have been indefensible industrial practices in television. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Commercially there is nothing to be said for it, and financially the arrangement is ludicrous and indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to press these matters too far, but, on the face of it, this is an indefensible bargain and arrangement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Being quite serious, it is indefensible treatment of good food. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, they were warned over several months that they were set on a totally indefensible course. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The determination of any particular electoral issue on the theory of mandates, which we sometimes have brought up in debate, is utterly indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The idea that merely because somebody is employed he cannot be independent strikes me as indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be 200 miles of completely indefensible boundaries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have no wish to defend indefensible practices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that he thought that it was entirely wrong that indefensible hardship could be imposed on innocent people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is a champion in his ability to defend the indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was required, in many ways, to defend what one might call the indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are monstrosities, and no one pretends otherwise or seeks to defend the indefensible which exists in some parts of the inner cities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, in all natural justice they are defending the indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We rightly regard war crimes as crimes, and some as particularly indefensible, usually because they were carried out in cold blood. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not indefensible that one person who is a major media baron elsewhere should control that gateway? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that to be wholly wrong; indeed, quite indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall he able to show that even sticking to the absolute burdens the incidence of the fresh taxation is utterly indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Her detention for so long without charge is totally indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suppose that some of them are dotty enough to do so, but nearly everyone else would regard it as utterly indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it necessary to do anything more than to enunciate the proposition to show how indefensible that situation is? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that continued coal rationing for the domestic market in present circumstances is indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even if it were a simple matter, it would be indefensible, but think of the complications to which this provision may give rise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From the controversy it does appear that it will lead to serious injustice in some cases, and is it not logically indefensible? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The conclusion, therefore, is that in atomic war this island is indefensible from atomic attack. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second—easily the worst and most indefensible option—is to reduce benefits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a bad case here; we have an indefensible case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On this matter, he seems to have a completely indefensible case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the light of what has been agreed, it would be indefensible to continue the war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, such a situation would be morally indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If this is so, our failure to take the initiative was indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The time taken to administer the legal aid system once a case is successful is also indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their use against a non-nuclear opponent is politically and morally indefensible, as history has shown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The present pattern of wages is completely indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am bound to say this is utterly and absolutely indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The records will show how progress is made by putting even more indefensible propositions on to indefensible propositions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that we shall have some defence of what is, from my point of view, an indefensible attitude. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Her continued detention without charge is indefensible and in flagrant contradiction of all principles of justice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, we must always remember that we are logically indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I find some of these consequences totally indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A further delay would have a serious impact on staff and pupil morale and consequently on children's education, which is indefensible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they advocate persevering with religion, they advocate reconceptualizing it in different ways that do not depend on what they regard as such indefensible presuppositions. The common practice of cutting the second stanza is aesthetically indefensible. In the absence of cross-linguistic evidence, this seems indefensible. Less inherently indefensible but still potentially pauperising were the recurrent metropolitan emergency relief charities. What seems overwhelmingly clear, however, is that using any one of these factors as the sole determinant of an organ's allocation would be morally indefensible. Rather than be impressed by such ingenious playfulness, the reader or audience may feel that it is rationally indefensible upon philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical grounds. At this price the production standards are indefensible. If the family is indefensible from within the original position, that will simply be the result of reflective equilibrium. The fundamental reason for such indefensible applications is the pervasive role of human judgement throughout any modelling endeavour and the subsequent scope for uncertainty. A false historical datum, an experimental error or a calculation mistake becomes indefensible as soon as it is noticed. I have claimed that the resulting theory, ex post prioritarianism, is indefensible. T he solutions provided in one society may well be regarded as indefensible by members of other societies. The final product is a shattered, irrecuperable and indefensible language. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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