Climate change, which exacerbates these risks, seems to have finally tipped the balance of what was an increasingly untenable situation, says Anthony LeRoy Westerling, who is also at UC Merced.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.|James Temple|September 17, 2020|MIT Technology Review
This summer has seen more fires, more heat, more storms — all of it making life increasingly untenable in larger areas of the nation.
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration|by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Meridith Kohut|September 15, 2020|ProPublica
Chrome made up most of DigiTrust’s cookie aggregation, making its future untenable.
‘Changing the pipes to run on a better currency’: Publishers’ first-party data strategies take shape|Lucinda Southern|August 11, 2020|Digiday
Bloom even announced the result in a lecture, only to realize afterward that some of their shortcuts were untenable.
Landmark Math Proof Clears Hurdle in Top Erdős Conjecture|Erica Klarreich|August 3, 2020|Quanta Magazine
“I appreciate the issue getting attention because it’s just an untenable situation,” he said.
Businesses Say Border Patrol Is Seizing Legal Cannabis Between San Diego, Imperial|Jesse Marx and Maya Srikrishnan|June 29, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Does this hunk of glass make up for his untenable relationships?
And The Escort of The Year Is… Backstage at The Sex Oscars|Scott Bixby|March 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What exists now is unworkable, untenable, and damn near unendurable.
Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!|Lee Siegel|April 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Some calculating pol, realizing that his position had become unpopular or untenable, would execute a backflip off the high board.
The New Era of Evolution Helps Pols Switch Stance on Issues from Gay Marriage to Immigration|Howard Kurtz|April 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The idea of suffering this nausea another day, let alone another 34 weeks, was untenable.
Prue Clarke on Her Battles With Kate Middleton’s Illness, Hyperemesis Gravidarum|Prue Clarke|December 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The war between Israel and Hamas shows that the situation on the ground is fundamentally unstable and untenable.
The Death of Israel's "Quality Minority"|Hussein Ibish|November 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It is hardly necessary to observe that this argument is untenable.
The Idea of Progress|J. B. Bury
I have shown in the eleventh chapter of the Riddle that it is untenable.
The Wonders of Life|Ernst Haeckel
But chemists were not long in showing that this position is untenable.
The Story of the Living Machine|H. W. Conn
The irrelevancy of this detail gives Lætitia an excuse for waiving the cab-question, on which her position is untenable.
Somehow Good|William de Morgan
But the good sense of the German people would not suffer their ruler to place them in a position so false and so untenable.
Edison's Conquest of Mars|Garrett Putnam Serviss
British Dictionary definitions for untenable
untenable
/ (ʌnˈtɛnəbəl) /
adjective
(of theories, propositions, etc) incapable of being maintained, defended, or vindicated