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.
