Voorbeelden van indefensible

• 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.