| 词汇 | example_english_untenable |
| 释义 | Examples of untenableThese 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. First, he has condensed over 2,000 years of history into some 350 pages without one feeling that there are any grave or untenable omissions. Since the notion of current-locus-ofupdate has been argued to be problematic for a number of reasons, an account of ' aboutness ' in these terms seems untenable. In that context, the present fragmentation of proprietary rights to genes would simply be untenable. Under an optimality-theoretic account of grammar, such 'deviation' hypotheses are untenable, and the evidence supporting them tenuous. In this instance, the cemetery's attorneys almost welcomed defeat as a way to end their ' ' untenable legal position. Without recourse to social factors, such a hypothesis solely based on structural facts must of necessity remain untenable. The argument of falsification has been found to be untenable, since the few instances on which the argument is predicated merely involve irregularities. Research over the last two decades has rendered such a viewpoint increasingly untenable. When new information points to simpler, more likely solutions, they have been reluctant to abandon untenable positions. On these grounds, linguistic representational nativism seems untenable. However, the suggestion that the only di#erences are in terminology and exhaustiveness is at best superficial, and in fact untenable. Ultimately, this paradox proved to be intellectually untenable. However, the principle is actually solidly grounded epistemologically because the alternative is untenable. We argue here that these discontinuities are untenable. Unfortunately, that theory has been untenable for more than fifty years. One consideration is that a variety of stimulus-based, lowlevel interpretations of animals' performances are untenable. Then (f) falls together with interpretation (e) and is untenable for the same reason. In our view, such an assumption is untenable. If such a mutant lacked in vivo toxicity, then the amyloid pore hypothesis would be untenable. We do not think that this untenable position is implied by the judgement referred to above. However, this position is untenable for three empirical reasons. Given the network account of the retina, this belief now became untenable. If so, the gap is critical, and the procedure untenable. He argues that my distinction between beliefs and belief-forming processes is untenable, except in simple cases like perceptual beliefs. Spinsterhood seems only a public acknowledgement of what she has believed herself to be all along, a romantically untenable figure. As noted, one earlier central premise + that when grammatical features do not match, the derivation is blocked + is untenable. Such a constitution should also seek to eliminate 'majority rule', which was 'untenable in theory and unjustifiable in practice'. In addition, perceptual approaches have become widely viewed as untenable because they are assumed to implement recording systems, not conceptual systems. We believe that this monolithic view of planning is untenable on neuropsychological, neurophysiological, and behavioural grounds. Unfortunately, the argument is made in the context of a novel and, we believe, untenable unified theory of catatonia. However, on inspection, any suggestion that teachers changed their practices merely in response to governmental stipulations seems untenable. The assumption of a uniform six-month count that formed the basis of his proposal is untenable. By 1946, the jobber's position within the mill was beginning to appear untenable. A closer inspection of some empirical data, mostly of a presuppositional nature, then convinced us that this hypothesis is untenable. However, this analysis turns out to be untenable. The author concludes that dependance on a single measure or small number of indicators to make admissions decisions is untenable. The constitutive effect is to provide support for an industrialist paradigm that environmentalists themselves believe is ultimately untenable. Not being itself based either on argument or evidence, this attitude is logically untenable. If you drop that assumption, there is no proof based on rational behavior, and the theorem is untenable. Their perceived nonequivalence made modern secularism untenable, since it required both. Where a situation is untenable, ways of adapting and of restoring self-esteem should be explored. Attractive though it may be, this hypothesis is - at least as stated - untenable. Either way, we seem to be faced with an untenable version of linguistic determinism. If we are to carve nature at her joints, the separation of vision from motor systems is in many instances untenable. A study of a series of first stage larvae of varying development renders this view untenable. To avoid the morally untenable conclusion, these constraints must be built into the initial premises at the outset of the argument. From the contemporary layman's viewpoint, it looks as if something were 'omitted'; from the historical linguist's viewpoint, though, such a position is untenable. If change occurs, it occurs normally as a response to the fact that the status quo has become untenable. An obsession with control has contributed to the longevity of outmoded and ultimately untenable policy positions. Since a teleological philosophy of nature is no longer viable, traditional theism is untenable. He also maintains that construing the doctrine as an apparent contradiction, justifying its acceptance via an appeal to mystery, is rationally untenable. Students and intellectuals had not overturned the ruling party, but they had managed to make the political status quo appear untenable. However, in recent years, it has been increasingly clear that this strict separation between cognition and emotion is untenable and investigations of affective processes have rapidly increased. However, the hypothesized correlation between degree of gender and age segregation and degree of difference between female 0 male values for sociolinguistic variables clearly is untenable for some variables. However, this subterfuge is untenable. He states that this position is not only undesirable but untenable and warns that any attempt to limit the requirement for informed consent should be strongly resisted. Clearly such a position is untenable. His history argues for a conclusion : for two millennia ethics has been grounded in cosmic order and purpose and without such a grounding ethical realism is untenable. Unambiguous theoretical findings tend to flow only from substantial sets of simplifying assumptions, and such assumptions, measured against the observed facts of smallholder agriculture, seem largely untenable. On the face of it, there seemed to be an untenable assumption that a single theory could account for all the complexities that were involved in development. As mentioned, prior investment is no rationale for adhering to an untenable hypothesis, and the difficulty associated with testing a hypothesis is unrelated to the validity of that hypothesis. The ensemble of their arguments renders this claim simply untenable. Clearly, both the fact that the status quo has become untenable and the looming of a very unfavourable judicial solution have triggered a process of political innovation. Another strength of the book is the way in which it makes clear that asserting the impregnability of science to such corrupting effects is simply untenable. The developing country negotiating stance of underlining the 'differentiated responsibility' of the developed world for climate change is thus shown by the monetary damage estimates to be untenable. Nineteenth-century aestheticism has, of course, been dismissed for much of the twentieth century as an untenable elitism, complicit with the commodity culture it claims to despise. In these circumstances, it was apparent to proponents and critics of the new brain science alike that the result was incoherent and untenable views of the mind-body relation. Under scrutiny, however, this scenario is untenable. The null hypothesis is clearly untenable and so the next step is to consider when ballooning behaviours emerged, in the knowledge that it must have been later than silk. However, his position is simply untenable. Effectively in this case, every ion which approaches the probe has an absorption radius at infinity, and all linearizations of ion-normalized energies become untenable, involving a division by zero. Both of these assumptions are empirically untenable. The analytic and the synthetic: an untenable dualism. They argue that a centralized solution is untenable, because of the potentially large number of interactions that must be continuously reasoned over in the heterogeneous population. Not only does he cover the influence of changing ideologies on legal conventions, but he shows why changing political and economic circumstances made the old conventions increasingly untenable. Character and plot, the mainstays of dramatic theatre, are no longer categories that need enter the stage in an age in which the act of representation has become increasingly untenable. In addition to other structural mechanisms, e-government is expected to provide both a means of oversight and a set of techniques that makes corruption not just untenable, but also impossible. As a result, traditional theism is untenable. Indeed, we should only reach for an indirect explanation of this sort of adaptive behaviour if it can be shown that the simpler, direct account is untenable. Three years of drought have made the supply situation untenable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English His attitudes and his previous actions were proof that his position was simply untenable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English A successful military campaign may require giving up some tactically untenable territory. The option of maintaining the hospitals for any significant strategic period was simply untenable. Today, however, such an assertion is wholly untenable. The structuring of clan society in the area would, thus, become untenable in practical terms, with its infrastructure undermined. The first is the recognition that the failure of foundationalism in philosophy makes any attempt to claim a monopoly on truth, methodology etc. untenable. Treating wild living resources as has been done in the past is untenable for the long term. The unpredictability in science in general entails that the technocratic ideal of the discovery of an optimal solution to social decisions is untenable. The critique of class and other grand concepts was located in a world in which meta-narratives were becoming increasingly untenable. From the 1910s and 1920s onwards, some of the leading assumptions of salutary neglect appeared to become untenable. After all, it makes little sense systematically to falsify accounts if one is unaware that the bank is in an untenable position. With relatively few cases remaining to be detected, screening in its present form will become untenable. The coexistence of new industrial town and remnant agrarian hamlet was thus increasingly untenable. Many who accept the former point regard the latter as an implausible vestige of an untenable philosophy of mind. However, the intrinsic improbability of such a solution makes this belief untenable! 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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