untenable

Modifying Another Word

• historically: Such a position is both logically and historically untenable.
• politically: What then are the options if the present British course becomes politically untenable?
• increasingly: As a result his position as party leader became increasingly untenable and finally in 1979 he resigned the position and also left the SDLP.
• wholly: The case for man-made UFOs is stronger than ever whereas the evidence for ' alien flying saucers ' is wholly untenable.
• completely: We think that the position of the tobacco companies in withholding information on the additives their cigarettes contain is completely untenable.
• quite: His own way of thinking makes such a view quite untenable.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: These reasons alone make the apparent death theory untenable.
• render: Furthermore, within the body the acidity of the upper GI tract renders the habitat untenable to fungi.

Modifies a noun

• position: It is a most untenable position, in my mind at least.
• conclusion: Nevertheless, Gombrich carries his comparison between the two systems to an untenable conclusion.
• situation: He rejoined the action later, during which time the Platoon withdrew from an untenable situation.
• proposition: Heaven v. Pender 1 goes no further than this, tho it is often cited to support all kinds of untenable propositions.

Used with adjective complement

• render: By 1650 it was rendered untenable, the huge defensive lake was drained, and the gatehouse was converted to residential accommodation.
• become: Eisner's position has become untenable, however, he has not been the most popular of CEO's for sometime.
• seem: They had moved onto high loose shale but their position seemed untenable.
• make: All contribute to make untenable a conspiracy to deceive.
• look: But such criticisms are beginning to look increasingly untenable.
• prove: The population of medieval England peaked at the beginning of the 14th century, before some settlements began to prove untenable.

Preposition: in

• century: The National rail operators need to understand that their position is untenable in the 21st century.
• term: The Director of Personnel said the Crime Fighting Fund was a barrier to workforce modernisation and was untenable in the long term.