We are watching indefensible policy being pushed forward in an indefensible process in the hopes that it will eventually be signed into law and implemented by an indefensible administration.
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Was it like Richard Nixon's bombing of Cambodia, an illegal and morally indefensible extension of a war that was already morally indefensible?
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It's indefensible, pretty much, and the indignities and exploitations and criminally self-important administrative evasions that make it all happen are also indefensible.
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" On Friday, Clinton spokesperson @NickMerrill called those comments "indefensible.
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Not only is that claim indefensible — it's also ridiculous.
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Casebolt's actions were described as "indefensible" by his former boss.
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It is unpatriotic; it is indefensible; and it is wrong.
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In a country with so much incredible potential, it's indefensible.
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Even the Department of Defense has trouble defending the indefensible.
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His testimony devolved into a laughable defense of the indefensible.
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"To me, it's indefensible," Napolitano told the Fox Business hosts.
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Here's the thing: Corker is in an indefensible position here.
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" He went on to call Kelly's comments "stupid" and "indefensible.
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Spitting in another person's face, from close range, is indefensible.
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"I'm not here to defend the indefensible," the cardinal declared.
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Congressional Republicans have precedent for dealing with such indefensible comments.
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But, in fairness, it's hard to defend the nearly indefensible.
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"I'm not going to defend the indefensible," Scott told Vice News.
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"I think they're completely indefensible ... they were absolutely disgusting," he said.
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True enough, Donald Trump has said some indefensible things this campaign.
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"Nazi salutes are indefensible," a CNN spokesperson said in a statement.
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There is no way anyone can defend what is clearly indefensible.
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Force the Republicans to either back down or defend the indefensible.
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Tasked with defending the indefensible, Nielsen is in an impossible position.
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But Trump's outlandish claim was indefensible, and the matter was dropped.
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"Nazi salutes are indefensible," the network said in a terse statement.
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Journalistically indefensible, though gullible additional reporters are spreading it of course.
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The mayhem and misery he has caused is horrific and indefensible.
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Republican officials know the voter fraud claim is an indefensible lie.
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Here are some that I would use: indefensible, outrageous, unforgivable, shameless.
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I can understand why you can't defend it because it's indefensible.
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Liz: Let me be clear: Jon Snow is indefensible as a character.
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Gunn's tweets, many of which were about molestation or pedophilia, were indefensible.
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There's no point in defending the indefensible, but this retreat happened quickly.
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In Mourner, though, Howard's person and politics seem condescending and almost indefensible.
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I would understand why you can't defend it because it was indefensible.
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"Private monopolies are indefensible and intolerable," the party's platform declared in 22020.
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It's random, seemingly indefensible, targeted at normally safe environments, and jarringly violent.
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"Nazi salutes are indefensible," a CNN spokesperson said, according to the network.
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Given the civilian casualties, further American support for this war is indefensible.
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The Centers for Disease Control methodologies, however, were not sloppy or indefensible.
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Ryan later called the comments "indefensible" but did not rescind his endorsement.
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There's a reason it's been difficult: Trump's firing of Comey is indefensible.
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What once felt direct and surmountable could actually be hiding something indefensible.
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"Pence refused to defend the statements because they are indefensible," she said.
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Mike Pence of Indiana, called the remarks from the 2005 video indefensible.
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Why strain to concoct such feeble rationales unless the truth is indefensible?
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The debate over student debt is ultimately about our nation's indefensible inequality.
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Today, in view of the agreement's ruinous consequences, they are morally indefensible.
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To keep her incarcerated a day longer is morally and economically indefensible.
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And the sycophants are required to justify increasingly indefensible decisions and actions.
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Many of them know that Mr. Trump's behavior toward Ukraine is indefensible.
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Rivera's defense of the indefensible is in keeping with his own history.
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This policy reversal is indefensible given the track record of private prisons.
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Rahmani described it as an "indefensible" case because of that overwhelming evidence.
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DeVos spent the week defending indefensible cuts to a program everyone loves.
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The Trump administration has invented "tender age" shelters to defend the indefensible.
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De Blasio and the NYPD are protecting officers whose conduct has been indefensible.
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Yet the central charge—computer hacking—is an indefensible violation of the law.
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We have brought VidAngel's indefensible violation of the injunction to the court's attention.
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It's still indefensible, in my mind, to start your flagship phones at 24GB.
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If you share those instincts, then at first blush Ginsburg's behavior seems indefensible.
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Or, perhaps less generously, giving quarter to indefensible prejudices out of political expedience.
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The White House condemned the attack, calling it "indefensible," The Associated Press reported.
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He and his characters find the banks' behavior not just indefensible but criminal.
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" A spokesman for CNN had called the use of the Nazi salute "indefensible.
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How do you defend a running mate much of America deems as indefensible?
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Bonnell's early antics are indefensible, but they were not, and are not, unusual.
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While calling Trump's comments "indefensible," Conway argued that Trump's statements were only bluster.
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They are not going to be part of defending something that is indefensible.
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Some faculty members took the role of useful fools, vigorously defending the indefensible.
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Your boyfriend knows his behavior is unpleasant, indefensible — and that it bothers you.
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" Nick Merrill, a Clinton adviser and spokesman, called Buttigieg's months-old comments "indefensible.
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We cannot go back to the 1967 lines because these lines are indefensible.
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If she's saying what I think she's saying, it seems just obviously indefensible.
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The dress-and-grooming exception is an indefensible loophole in that rule, I believe.
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You need to understand that you cannot defend what you've done — it is indefensible.
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In the long run, stability depends on Pakistan ending its indefensible support for terrorism.
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" On Saturday, Gurriel released a formal statement saying his gesture was "offensive" and "indefensible.
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But putting politics aside (for a moment), the White House's position is wholly indefensible.
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There is nothing more abhorrent and indefensible than abuse of power such as this.
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I don't hold that view, but that view isn't unheard of or completely indefensible.
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" In perhaps his toughest criticism of all, Hassett called the TPC's findings "scientifically indefensible.
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Brussels' position is indefensible, and it's high time they were held accountable for it.
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Yes. Would I like the indefensible gimmick that is OCO to go away completely?
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But is it the indefensible piece of shit everybody made it out to be?
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In a world of our choosing, this division might have seemed indefensible and incoherent.
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Spicer's unblinking defense of Trump's indefensible claims in the days to come -- remember "covfefe"?
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Weinstein has himself recognized that his contact with women was indefensible and incredible hurtful.
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Mr Giuliani has been ubiquitous on cable TV ever since, generally defending the indefensible.
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The Supreme Court's record on immigration injunctions in the Trump era is completely indefensible.
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When prices were reasonable, that was a fine practice, but it is increasingly indefensible.
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The product was discounted to the still-indefensible price of $399 in January 2017.
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Republicans have bent over backward to defend the president, even in his most indefensible moments.
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But I&aposm saying, how many lives were told in defense of this indefensible policy.
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If you look at something like paid family leave, not supporting it is really indefensible.
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What I am hearing about the allegations against R Kelly is absolutely horrifying and indefensible.
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While Blackburn says Trump's comments were "indefensible," she does not consider them a deal-breaker.
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What's absolutely indefensible for a product from Pixar is how bad the video is overall.
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That the opposite effect is happening is no mystery; that it's still happening is indefensible.
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"The reason you can't defend this line of attack is because it's indefensible," Tapper said.
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Basically no one in this debate disagrees that colonialism was a horrifying, morally indefensible process.
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McCoy flouted all traditional football wisdom with those calls, but his choices were hardly indefensible.
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It is a shameful, indefensible tactic that should never be heard on the public airwaves.
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Rashid's behavior is indefensible and—if the online reviews are accurate—so is his pizza.
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I still peek occasionally to see how he'll defend statements or actions I consider indefensible.
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But their team had won, and many Rams fans were willing to defend the indefensible.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday morning blasted the CNN report as indefensible.
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It is indefensible to lack morals in software when we have such a huge impact.
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Each time, the Trump campaign has explicitly directed surrogates to defend Trump's (increasingly indefensible) performance.
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It's basically indefensible and no one who understands how the internet works agrees with it.
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As one official described it, he has grown weary of trying to defend the indefensible.
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The private sale of colonial artifacts is indefensible; unlike museums, it offers no public good.
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"What Harvey has done is shocking, indefensible and disturbing on many levels," Mr. Ford said.
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"Difficult Women" is creepy, it is cruel, it is morally indefensible — and it is exhilarating.
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If one candidate has a record filled with incomprehensible and indefensible votes, that's on them.
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As one official described it, he had grown weary of trying to defend the indefensible.
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Six decades later, American political speech does the opposite — largely making defensible positions appear indefensible.
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"These alleged actions, which haven't been denied, are reprehensible, indefensible and unacceptable," Bevin said Saturday.
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Instead he lied for Trump, tried to shut down the press, and defended the indefensible.
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The result today is widespread defense of an indefensible system, often by veterans' advocacy groups.
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And she lived the rest of her life with the knowledge of her indefensible complicity.
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"I'm not going to defend the indefensible ... [Trump's] comments on Monday were strong," Scott said.
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Anti-Semitism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism and white supremacy are and always will be indefensible.
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It has since apologized for the decision, citing ignorance over 8chan, but it remains indefensible.
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"This undermining of the public process is absolutely indefensible and should not be allowed to stand."
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But by comparing the two events, conservatives have done worse than make a major, indefensible stretch.
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The chief justice, Dipak Misra, called the ban on gay sex "irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary".
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The problem with that approach, of course, is that it forces you to defend the indefensible.
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Both Trump's wife and his running mate criticized his words, saying they were insulting and indefensible.
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Richard Burr, who said that while Trump's comments were "indefensible," he still plans to support him.
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Were Trump not an erratic and indefensible candidate, Pence would win the contest in a walk.
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" Stephen Webber, chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party, said: "State Senator Chappelle-Nadal's comments are indefensible.
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But on this occasion his statement made it sound as if he were defending the indefensible.
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"I'm not going to defend the indefensible ... comments on Monday were strong," Scott told Vice News.
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It was the type of hit, reckless and indefensible, that warranted a five-minute match penalty.
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The DOD needs to put an end to indefensible waste and abuse of the public trust.
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Withdrawing from Syria is not, on the face of it, an inherently bad or indefensible policy.
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Let's call these arguments for what they really are: a transparent attempt to defend the indefensible.
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Supporting Trump is indefensible and it makes you as much of a pariah as he is.
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"The current practice of state-supported philanthropy, especially in the United States, is indefensible," he concludes.
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The idea that the system cannot function without consensus is by no means an indefensible claim.
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At the hearing, Safai called it indefensible and accused the SFMTA of trying to appease Motivate.
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But as a judge, I find the majority's position indefensible as a matter of constitutional law.
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In his speech, Farr is expected to argue that supporting the current tax code is indefensible.
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Israel, through overreach, has placed itself in a morally indefensible noose, policing the lives of others.
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His indefensible slurs against his fellow citizens and offensive plans for the weak were a shock.
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Medical cannabis is crucial for his pain relief, and he finds the gateway drug argument indefensible.
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Whatever happened to him, the ensuing assault was indefensible, a lawyer retained by inmates' relatives said.
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Right now the defense is not worse than Porter's actions, but it sure does feel indefensible.
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From professional critics, to regular folk, so I asked them all to defend the supposedly indefensible.
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"What I am hearing about the allegations against R Kelly is absolutely horrifying and indefensible," she added.
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The Democrats did this on purpose to try to muddy the waters, and to defend the indefensible.
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Netanyahu has described the 1967 lines as indefensible and has said Israel would never return to them.
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However shocking, detestable and morally indefensible it might seem today, no one dreamed of contesting it then.
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At the same time, it is wrong and indefensible for supporters of a candidate to harass superdelegates.
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What doesn't make sense and is indefensible is that Apple has not been forthright about this behavior.
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"What occurred at the penalty phase of this trial is indefensible," Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said.
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" But he also came to feel that his behavior was indefensible "at a person-to-person level.
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I ordered the same four things: margaritas, lagers, artichoke dip and indefensible amounts of Cheddar Bay bread.
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A cynic might call it an election-year ploy designed to make an indefensible outcome look moderate.
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Still, Mr. Erdogan's dragnet is indefensible, and the Turkish leader has steadily eroded the rule of law.
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It was one of the most horrifying and indefensible incidents in the history of American foreign policy.
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With public housing racially isolated, other policies — some misguided but well intentioned, others indefensible — exacerbated the dysfunction.
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Much of the commerce was fruitful; some of it — a massive traffic in slavery — was morally indefensible.
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This toxic cycle has further corroded the classical view of science that Latour has long considered indefensible.
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These disparities are all the more indefensible because low-level marijuana arrests have no public safety benefit.
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And they have certainly not abandoned all efforts to stifle expression they deem morally indefensible or offensive.
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They crave the anti-Trump, not a hypocritical Kamala Harris and her indefensible record on criminal justice.
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Naturally the justification offered for the indefensible carnage this entails is that it will benefit the victims.
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"I'm not here to defend the indefensible," he said, calling the abuses a "catastrophe" for the church.
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" Gore also had called Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement that June "indefensible.
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That was before a "morally indefensible agenda," in Mr. Krugman's words, became the name of their game.
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" He went on to say, "I'm not going to defend these kinds of comments because they're indefensible.
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You cannot defend the indefensible, so the only appropriate course of action was to terminate the employee.
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Mr Epstein's original defence team included Alan Dershowitz and Kenn Starr, two lawyers skilled in defending the indefensible.
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Skin tone recognition is a clear problem in tech that, given the industry's indefensible homogeneity, is sadly ignored.
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" When Stone's lawyer Bruce Rogow said that Stone's behavior was "indefensible," she replied: "I agree with you there.
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She'd become increasingly uncomfortable with having to watch her language when asked about issues she found morally indefensible.
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They should not be put in the position of having to defend fundamentally indefensible lapses in government policy.
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"The inequities that these women champions have faced as members of the USWNT are indefensible," the letter states.
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The Democrats have to throw the book at Donald Trump to make him seem absolutely, utterly, finally indefensible.
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His track record of indefensible comments isn't the only clue that Trump is the wrong candidate for parents.
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The indefensible decision to order a re-run has done yet more damage to the strongman's reputation abroad.
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Ryan has proven himself willing to say more passingly indefensible things, too, and has refused to retract them.
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"I am no Comey fan, but POTUS firing FBI Director conducting investigation into campaign is indefensible," Caplin tweeted.
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That means that women work unpaid for almost a quarter of the year compared to men, it's indefensible.
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Mr Veloso concluded that their arrest was the product of vague and legally indefensible concerns about corrupting youth.
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"It is never easy to condemn a personal friend, but Governor Northam's past behavior is indefensible," Virginia Rep.
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If there is indefensible evidence that the man is a racist, then of course, he is a racist.
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As all the world now knows, Trump revealed attitudes and behaviors toward women that were appalling and indefensible.
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Even with his back turned, that's an unnatural position that's indefensible when he got an advantage from it.
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But having assistant coaches leave jobs to go with you then leave them out to dry is indefensible.
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"The inequities that these women champions have faced as members of the USWNT are indefensible," the Members wrote.
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Having drafted a bill so indefensible on the merits, Mr. McConnell and his allies promoted it with fibs.
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" Ryan added that he agrees with Weber's assertion that using taxpayer dollars to settle harassment claims is "indefensible.
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As Giuliani's disastrous interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo on Thursday evening revealed, it's hard to defend the indefensible.
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Dayen "and his characters find the banks' behavior not just indefensible but criminal," our reviewer, Frank Partnoy, wrote.
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It is, in fact, the only approach possible to advance an agenda that is unpopular and intellectually indefensible.
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" Michael Mann, who directs the Earth Systems Science Center at Penn State University, went further, calling Tillerson's statement "indefensible.
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Aurora Perrineau Now, Dunham says she didn't have "insider information" about the incident, adding that her behavior was indefensible.
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Dipak Misra, India's chief justice, called the archaic law "irrational [and] indefensible" in his ruling, according to The Guardian.
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It may be embarrassing, but we need to change the culture where officers don't cover up for the indefensible.
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But she got lots and lots of things wrong as she attempted to defend something that is simply indefensible.
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Called on to defend the indefensible from day one -- remember those outlandish, inaccurate claims about the inauguration crowd numbers?
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They will do so simply to make a quick buck, and they will find ways to rationalize the indefensible.
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" Those who express such an indefensible sentiment often then try to justify it by saying, "My vote doesn't count.
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" The Wyoming Democratic Party called for Hutchings to resign on Monday, condemning her remarks as "indefensible, insensitive and repugnant.
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"I think that the president owes the American people an apology for trying to defend the indefensible," Sanders said.
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"I've made it my mission to end hazing in our armed services because it is unacceptable and indefensible," Rep.
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Several days after the scandal broke, Christie denounced Trump's comments, calling them "completely indefensible" in a conversation on WFAN.
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He commonly criticizes overvalued tech start-ups for having indefensible business models and chastises venture capitalists for herd investing.
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There are things about The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith that are indefensible.
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And being nonbinary can feel inexplicable to yourself; the longings for physical alteration can feel both indefinite and indefensible.
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That the defense of the indefensible would be conducted as a form of amusement did not occur to him.
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This war should have ended years ago, and it is indefensible to prolong it by any means, diplomacy included.
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Bullock brought Obamacare's Medicaid expansion to his state — a literal lifesaver to thousands, forcing Republicans to defend the indefensible.
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These are probably the most embarrassing numbers in the pay-equity debate for U.S. Soccer, because they are indefensible.
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Treating Alabama taxpayers as compliant with I.R.S. law but New Yorkers as not would be largely indefensible, he said.
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But nothing about defending the President's conduct, and that's probably because the evidence is overwhelming and the conduct indefensible.
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But it is indefensible as a matter of scholarship to completely omit the success of other Great Society programs.
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But he's actively trying to understand the world he lives in — and in that sense, he's not indefensible. —E.
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Alex Marlow, Breitbart's editor in chief, called the comments "indefensible" and "appalling" during his radio program on Tuesday morning.
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) may be dedicated to armed self-defense, but the organization itself is largely indefensible.
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But I also believe the way he talked about his past over the past few months is morally indefensible.
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"I wish I could shoot your f***king ass 16 times for something that is patently indefensible," the caller said.
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Mr Liu cites the Belt and Road Initiative, a global infrastructure-building project, as an indefensible giveaway to poor countries.
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It's not surprising, necessarily, that he offered the historically indefensible counternarrative of the well-treated slave to make some noise.
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The Hammonds are the victims of one of the most egregious, indefensible and intolerable instances of prosecutorial misconduct in history.
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He allowed that the affair was "indefensible, outrageous, unforgivable, shameless," and that Mr. Clinton had not been forthcoming about it.
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Click here to view original GIFWasting beer is usually indefensible—unless you plan on blowing up whole kegs with dynamite.
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It's one thing to defend the status quo when the results support it; in this case it's defending the indefensible.
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This means he doesn't have to defend assignments and curriculum decisions, which is good because he often finds them indefensible.
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Paul Ryan, who officially endorsed Trump only days ago, said Trump's remarks are "indefensible" and a "textbook case" of racism.
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You are the supercar, and in this age of environmental calamities and have-everythings and have-nots, you are indefensible.
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She was unusually shy as a girl, but eventually she realized that her anxiety was not just inconvenient but indefensible.
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Doug Ducey has signed legislation repealing a pair of laws targeting abortion because they appeared to be indefensible in court.
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Many find it especially indefensible considering Drake has repeatedly declared his love for Rihanna, who was physically abused by Brown.
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But if the administration is committed to gathering this data, then failing to take the steps outlined above is indefensible.
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Both figures defy everything the oil market is telling us and they will be indefensible for those who support them.
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A U.N. adviser criticizes the organization for its "morally unconscionable, legally indefensible, and politically self-defeating" response to the epidemic.
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In digging in to defend Trump's seemingly indefensible comments, Spicer managed to get the White House into even more trouble.
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But if the worst comes to pass in the weeks and months ahead, not having taken them will be indefensible.
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But there are also times when it masks cowardice, self-justification and policies that are hypocritical and/or morally indefensible.
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" The House's Democratic impeachment managers said the president's trial brief — which was filed Monday — "confirms that his misconduct is indefensible.
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At the time, Gore described the decision as a "reckless and indefensible action" that undermined America's standing in the world.
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But historians have long acknowledged that it was a mistake to send untested Canadian boys to defend an indefensible island.
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" Professor Corwin lamented the "indefensible concessions which a small block of so-called 'Silver Senators' have been able to wrest.
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And I see in Lee a traitor who waged war against the United States in defense of the indefensible, slavery.
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" Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent, called it an "economically indefensible blunder that will harm our future.
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Still, Mr. Bolton faces the unenviable challenge of regularly having to defend the indefensible or make corrections after the fact.
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"President Trump publicly committed himself to an indefensible goal: banning Muslims from coming to the United States," the ACLU lawyers wrote.
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U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR VENEZUELA ELLIOTT ABRAMS SAYS U.S. CONDEMNS THE 'CRUEL AND INDEFENSIBLE' DETENTION OF EXECUTIVES FROM U.S. REFINER CITGO
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Today, it would be indefensible — easy pickings for terrorists or Iranian missile strikes against population centers in the Jewish state's heartland.
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Perpetuating the myth that the worth of a nonprofit organization boils down to what it spends on overhead is simply indefensible.
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And there's no turning back now -- no matter how much logic you have to murder to defend the President's indefensible conduct.
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"I want to express my utmost, sincere apologies for the indefensible comments that I've said in the past," reads the note.
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" Ron Johnson, Wisconsin: "Donald Trump's recent comments are completely indefensible and I refuse to even attempt to try and do so.
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C'mon guys, we all value a free and open internet, but getting upset about this is indefensible. 2.Self-explanatory. 1.
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But the Affordable Care Act in its admittedly larger text contained a small provision, Section 2302, that changed this indefensible policy.
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Trump has a way of tarnishing almost everyone around him because to work with him, they have to defend the indefensible.
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Without it, the state of Alaska would be free to pursue its scientifically indefensible predator control program on these public lands.
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In a world of conservative media where it seems no bufoonery is indefensible, Wohl has found the exception to the rule.
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"At present the Baltic states are effectively indefensible," says François Heisbourg of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think-tank.
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Sometimes he would stake out a seemingly indefensible position, then see if he could invent an argument to back it up.
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They also do not address the important issue that what a culture finds desirable may reflect ethically indefensible social power relations.
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President Trump isolated the United States with this reckless and indefensible decision, but if he won't lead, the American people will.
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Polizos would be well-advised to research an issue before coming to the defense of Greece's false, racist, and indefensible position.
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President Trump and his fellow billionaire cabinet members reveal their plutocrat values in blazing color with this outrageous and indefensible proposal.
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Instead, it's a desperate attempt to cover-up the fact that what they did to the women in 2017 is indefensible.
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Would they talk about the moral implications of allowing a person to move on from past indiscretions, mistakes and indefensible crimes?
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They distrust Palestinian intentions and fear for the security of a slimmed-down Israel in what many describe as indefensible borders.
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Perhaps his administration's litany of indefensible ethics violations combined with their disrespect of congressional oversight powers will be the breaking point.
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Many of them, and it's indefensible on my behalf and we're responsible for having the team ready, and obviously they weren't.
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Mr. Trump's refusal to release his returns was deeply suspicious during the campaign, and it's indefensible now that he's in power.
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"[It's] indefensible, it is hateful and Islamophobic, and an insult to over a billion Muslims throughout the world," Sanders told Vought.
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The CFPB is proposing two indefensible changes to the payday lending rule: These changes will create a debtor's prison without bars.
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Despite being a signatory of all major international human rights treaties, Australia has instituted an indefensible policy of cruelty as deterrence.
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" After leaving NR, Sobran's writing, in the words of fellow paleocon and American Conservative editor Scott McConnell, "deteriorated into the indefensible.
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America's paper of record failed to condemn the attack in print, and followed their omission up with an indefensible op-ed.
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Since Trump has taken office, elected Republicans have bent over backward to defend the president, even in his most indefensible moments.
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It's a time-honored way to spare the new administration a waste of valuable time, prestige and political capital defending the indefensible.
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"I mean, I just think the government is outdated and sometimes the Democrats go out of their way to defend the indefensible."
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New Jersey's Democrats aren't just trying to ram through an indefensible power grab: They're encouraging the further decay of American democracy itself.
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"The White House is smearing Senator Merkley because they can't defend their indefensible policy of snatching children from their parents," Zaccaro said.
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"The imminent TSE ruling provides a legal formula to remove a head of state whose situation has become indefensible," the newspaper said.
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LAST spring, Scott Keller, the solicitor general for Texas, rose to defend his state's indefensible abortion clinic regulations at the Supreme Court.
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Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson called Amazon's business practices an "indefensible scam" last week, accusing Amazon and Walmart of operating as monopolies.
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If the user is working in Starbucks, what value is a network security product that attempts to protect an indefensible network perimeter?
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"These arrests underscore the need... for President Obama to suspend this indefensible policy putting political correctness ahead of national security," Cruz said.
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Unlike Bannon, Spicer's job is public-facing by design; his boss asks him to go out every day and defend the indefensible.
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They are perhaps his most indefensible tweets as president; and have the obvious potential to incite violence against Muslims living in America.
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His assertion that "compromise" could have stopped the Civil War is historically indefensible and in lockstep with Trump's inflammatory post-Charlottesville comments.
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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who had called the initial ballot "simply indefensible", took to Twitter on Tuesday to express her approval.
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The scale of the epidemic, as well as the medical community's endorsement of MAT, makes these numbers even more dramatic and indefensible.
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But when it comes to other indefensible people—Louis CK, Kevin Spacey, Roseanne Barr—the terms of their cancellation seem less permanent.
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" He went on to rule out exceptions in the case of incest or rape, describing abortion in all circumstances as "morally indefensible.
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"Remaining silent in an effort to curry favor with Turkey is as morally indefensible as it will be ineffectual," Mr. Schiff said.
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"Commissioner Lima-Taub's behavior is indefensible and a black eye for Hallandale Beach," a fellow commissioner said, according to the Sun Sentinel.
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Rep. Jim Himes tears into GOP attacks on Vindman's patriotism: 'It's the kind of thing you say when you're defending the indefensible'
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This impact is indefensible at a time when our nation's rental housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable, and we can't afford this setback.
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For some of them, his aggressive questioning of the legitimacy of the special counsel investigation into President Trump was indefensible and unforgivable.
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These people are quick to use combat metaphors when they talk about thinking (he shot down my argument, your claims are indefensible).
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The ruling was indefensible: Legal scholars across the board criticized it as outrageous and predicted it would almost surely fall upon appeal.
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This turned out to be a disastrous failure on every level — it was incompetently crafted, substantively indefensible, and eventually blocked in court.
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It implicates the rest of them, expressing shocked disbelief at the base that continues to back him despite his increasingly indefensible behavior.
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Prediction: Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans) Actual: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) Mea Culpa: Not totally indefensible but a weird pick in hindsight.
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Again on Thursday, Stone's defense attorney Bruce Rogow argued the Instagram post was indefensible, and that Stone wouldn't cross the line again.
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" Noting how Asian immigration was cut off, Kennedy added, "Furthermore, the national origins quota system has strong overtones of an indefensible racial preference.
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His resignation as labor secretary was entirely appropriate in view of his irresponsible and indefensible handling of the Epstein case as US attorney.
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She's managed to appropriate the language of the left in defense of a boss who, in any other rational conversation, would prove indefensible.
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Rooting for the Patriots is, of course, morally indefensible, but Gronk at least pushes the needle a little bit closer in their favor.
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"They're not going to defend this indefensible concept," said Shapiro, now a distinguished visiting fellow at Tel Aviv's Institute for National Security Studies.
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I'm talking about Republican lawmakers who know that the president's Ukraine machinations are indefensible and impeachable, particularly after Tuesday's disclosures by Lt. Col.
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Lying to defend the indefensible is pretty much par for the course in his administration, at least judging by its first 11 days.
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You tell your circles about how awesome their work is, what a cool person they are — and then they do something totally indefensible.
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" PEOPLE obtained a copy of Judge William Duffin's decision, in which he characterized the "misconduct" of Dassey's first attorney, Len Kachinsky, as "indefensible.
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"On the video itself, let's be really clear it is completely indefensible and I won't defend it and haven't defended it," Christie said.
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In the 15 years that Maher has hosted his HBO show, he has made countless indefensible comments -- many not even framed as jokes.
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Bob Weinstein said he was not aware of his brother's alleged actions, and called him "indefensible and crazy," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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The diminutive forward's journey to the Knights' top line has been well-documented, and the Panthers' decision to make him available remains indefensible.
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And it happened because the United States uses an indefensible, anti-democratic anachronism to elect the most powerful figure in its federal government.
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"It would seem that Aung San Suu Kyi is trying to defend what is indefensible," the 93-year-old told reporters in Singapore.
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" In a statement at the time, McCain said, "Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them.
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Korematsu is part of the "anti-canon" of Supreme Court rulings that are now seen as not only legally wrong, but morally indefensible.
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Paying little to nothing for carbon emissions is indefensible, and increasingly, these companies are getting pressure from their stakeholders and financiers to act.
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As expenses and delays mounted, the Elbphilharmonie—Elphi, locals call it—was seen in some quarters as an indefensible waste of public money.
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And, as with his past provocations, Mr. Trump once again left his fellow Republicans scrambling to defend what many effectively conceded was indefensible.
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Co-host Joe Scarborough blasted that criticism once the montage concluded, saying that Waters's statements, while indefensible, were not a call to violence.
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"Solitary confinement is cruel, demeaning, and abusive, and its exploitation in the context of civil immigration is indefensible," Booker said in the release.
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"Donald Trump's recent comments are completely indefensible and I refuse to even attempt to try and do so," Johnson said in a statement.
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The indefensible job shaming of The Cosby Show mainstay Geoffrey Owens was undoubtedly going to bring the best out of the entertainment world.
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He finally signed on August 29th, but not before the team waged a PR war that was as incomprehensible as it was indefensible.
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The Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn called Gunn's comments "indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values" in a statement announcing Gunn's termination.
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Believing deeply in the United States-Mexico relationship, I cannot pretend anything less than relief at no longer having to defend the indefensible.
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"Any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership and its businesses is indefensible," the panel said, referring to the military.
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Rather than backtrack — acknowledging that the idea that slavery was a choice is preposterous — he became even more strident in defending the indefensible.
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But now, eight days removed from his impeachment and in the midst of Trump's reign of revenge, it's an even more indefensible position.
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"President Trump's brief confirms that his misconduct is indefensible," the seven Democratic impeachment managers wrote in a 32-page memo in response Tuesday.
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While we cannot know how often or severely this loophole has been exploited to date, it is indefensible to allow it to remain.
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"He knew the segregation was morally indefensible, but ending it would have cost him the votes of every Southerner in Congress," O'Toole writes.
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"Solitary confinement is cruel, demeaning, and abusive, and its exploitation in the context of civil immigration is indefensible," Booker said at the time.
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On September 20th, news broke of another series of indefensible, senseless murders of unarmed black men occurred at the hands of police officers.
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" Merrill called Buttigieg's comments "indefensible," and tweeted, "@HillaryClinton ran on a belief in this country & the most progressive platform in modern political history.
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Later that month, Carlson escalated his claim that immigration was too costly for Americans: It's indefensible, so nobody even tries to defend it.
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Speaking about the 503 crime bill, Sanders berated the former president for trying to "defend the indefensible" and called on him to apologize.
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Your latest fulminations against Narendra Modi ("Agent Orange", May 4th) follow a line of attack at The Economist based on innuendo and indefensible criticisms.
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The policy was always legally dubious, but it has become indefensible in light of the Supreme Court's 2014 landmark decision in Riley v. California.
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By refusing to write software to help law enforcement crack Farook's phone, Apple was made to look like it was defending an indefensible terrorist.
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"We at Stone Brewing are aware of NOFX's insensitive and indefensible statements this past weekend," the company said in a statement to The Blast.
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He claimed that DACA was legally indefensible because a related, but separate, Obama administration policy concerning parents had been tossed out by a court.
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Another is that lawyers in the Department of Justice are growing weary of defending indefensible orders in the federal courts and then losing, badly.
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But he also emphasized the potential limitations of tech campaigns that ignore the reasons these companies partner with indefensible agencies in the first place.
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" - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in a Fox News interview "Removing the United States from the Paris Agreement is a reckless and indefensible action.
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The mainstream is so indefensible, so they either become liberal, and don't take everything chapter and verse, or they dig in and become extremists.
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Even hard-bitten journalists who accuse the spokesman of lying or defending the indefensible during his news conferences have expressed shock at the slight.
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After decades of a tax system in decline, clinging to the status quo because it's too difficult to reach a reform consensus is indefensible.
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" While calling them "dark, grim," and "indefensible," Ryan ripped the alt-right platform that propped up Nehlen's candidacy, saying that it "isn't even conservatism.
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Apparently, he believes that Hillary would be worse for the country, and, as a result, he has been called upon to defend the indefensible.
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But Pence was just trying to win the audience — by avoiding defending the indefensible and instead focusing on the Trump campaign's more positive aspects.
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But to be anti-choice on a policy level is absolutely indefensible from an economic justice, racial justice, gender justice and human rights standpoint.
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Where our nation initiates an immoral indefensible attack killing international citizens, of course those nations' victimized families should be able to sue our country.
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Those who serve him are forever fearful of being undercut, perpetually having to defend behavior from him that's indefensible, and demoralized as a result.
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" The classmates condemned Mnuchin for "defending President Trump's indefensible stance," blaming the media over the uproar surrounding Trump's comments and calling it a "distraction.
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The news isn't who leaked it," said GOP strategist and Hill contributor Matt Mackowiak, who noted that Duncan's remarks on Monday were nevertheless "indefensible.
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Instead, there was an embarrassing — and morally indefensible — effort to normalize North Korean propaganda with the games as backdrop and Trump administration as foil.
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Slated to appear before the House Appropriations Committee, supporting a 31 percent budget cut for the EPA, he was preparing to defend the indefensible.
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But the decision to release this statement just 11 days before the election seems, based on the facts as currently reported, to be indefensible.
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"The romantic element of the relationship is over, I'm afraid, as of last night," said the 54-year-old, describing her comments as indefensible.
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Yes, the running of the bulls is about bullfighting, and bullfighting, for all its romanticization in Western culture, is a fundamentally cruel, indefensible practice.
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Yet there's irony, if not rank hypocrisy, in Republicans who are suddenly insisting -- because they have daughters -- that they find Trump's attitude toward women indefensible.
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"The Trump administration has conceded that its original Muslim ban was indefensible," Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said in a statement.
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This kind of confusing and underhanded, not to say malicious, practice is far from uncommon among tech companies, but this is a particularly indefensible one.
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Bannon's worldview won't be defeated by a tough New Yorker interview, and pretending that he is intellectually deserving of one works to normalize the indefensible.
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But to stand up and say that 100 percent of global warming is because of human activity, I think on its face, is just indefensible.
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But for those not bound by such constraints, failing to invest money just because one does not want to jeopardize a good 2016 is indefensible.
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The museum did not remove the painting, but the controversy did raise some important questions about identity, ownership, censorship, and freedom, despite its indefensible premise.
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As many observers have pointed out, failing to act on climate change, although it's an indefensible crime against humanity, is also in some ways understandable.
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"Although he vigorously denies using physical force, Mr. Weinstein has himself recognized that his contact with women was indefensible and incredibly hurtful," Boies told me.
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It is indefensible that active duty servicewomen, including those who now serve in combat roles, must pay out of pocket for safe, legal medical care.
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"What he's done is indefensible, and when I heard what he had done, it sickened me to my stomach, just like everybody else," Campbell said.
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Gaga spoke out against Kelly early Thursday morn, saying the claims against him are "absolutely horrifying and indefensible" ... and she stands behind the women 1000%.
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"The tapes that have been playing over the last few days are gross, gross beyond belief and I think they are completely indefensible," he said.
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Character cannot be wedded to party politics, and the Republicans will have to make amends for defining deviancy down to defend the indefensible Donald Trump.
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Mr. Trump and his powerfully positioned climate deniers are harming billions of people and the natural world upon which we depend by defending the indefensible.
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How she and her husband were propelled into therapy by her aesthetically indefensible desire to have two front doors — multiple exit routes — on their home.
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His friend Jim Hatch, 50, a business owner, said that the players' behavior was indefensible, though he defended their right to act however they wanted.
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He delights in espousing contrary opinions, some of which come at you with the force of aesthetic revelation, while others seem perverse and largely indefensible.
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"It is scientifically indefensible to say — as the TPC report of last Friday does — that the framework would have little macroeconomic feedback impact," Hassett said.
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Logically indefensible, this neutrality principle can be defended only as a self-evident premise, a truth armored by its obviousness against any and all objections.
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If Bill Clinton wants to fully rehab his image he needs to stop defending the indefensible and start admitting that he was part of the problem.
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Characters are creations that are safely removed from reality; if they weren't, the work of George R.R. Martin (or almost any other author) would be indefensible.
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The president's conduct is indefensible, precisely the sort of invitation to foreign interference in US politics that the founders feared when they drafted the impeachment power.
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In his ruling on Friday, Duffin wrote that misconduct by Dassey's own lawyer was "indefensible," including his permitting investigators to interrogate his client without being present.
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Even his darkest moment -- the indefensible suggestion that Clinton would find herself in jail under his presidency -- was an instantaneous retort slipped in under the radar.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values," noted Disney chairman Alan Horn in a statement.
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But he also broke ranks Thursday, saying he could not defend the "indefensible" in the wake of Trump's comments about the alt-right rallies in Charlottesville.
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The attorney's upcoming book, Indefensible: The Missing Truth About Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and "Making a Murderer" will reportedly reveal new evidence about Avery's supposed guilt.
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"Chairman Neal has the power and responsibility to swiftly make this request—and these continued delays are indefensible," said Tax March Executive Director Maura Quint said.
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White House officials have successfully argued that any big actions to prop up economically struggling coal and nuclear power plants would be woefully indefensible in court.
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These actions, a snapshot of less than 24 hours in the Trump presidency, and the increasingly absurd defense of the indefensible, leads someplace far more dangerous.
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Rather than defending the indefensible, most Republicans are not supporting the withholding of American military aid but are citing the fact that it was eventually released.
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Melvin called her remarks "indefensible" as well as "ignorant and racist," and Roker insisted she "owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country."
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Priebus's interview didn't hint at any of the tumult within the party, but made it clear he found Trump's comments in the decade-old video indefensible.
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" Perry added, "to stand up and say that 100 percent of global warming is because of human activity, I think on its face, is just indefensible.
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Trump needed to turn in an exceptionally strong performance, but perhaps more importantly, he needed to offer a sincere apology for his indefensible remarks against women.
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Denying Native Americans access to this fountain of decent-paying, blue-collar manufacturing jobs based on nothing other than an ancient and offensive law is indefensible.
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After criticizing companies for splurging on private jets, Warren Buffett himself bought a Bombardier Challenger some two decades ago, initially — and ironically — christening it The Indefensible.
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"These rollbacks are indefensible, both in terms of their costs to consumers and their contravention of Congressional intent," they wrote in a letter spearheaded by Sens.
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Nevertheless, Republican members of this House and of the Senate have continued to defend a president whose actions seem to many of us to be indefensible.
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Nevertheless, Republican members of this House and of the Senate have continued to defend the president whose actions seem to many of us to be indefensible.
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With the holiday season fast approaching, many climate-conscious people may be wondering: Is my planned vacation for the other side of the world ethically indefensible?
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Wawa Dunkin' Donuts: Bostonians' years of defending the watered-down piss coffee they serve turned out to be great practice for defending an indefensible football team.
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" She further called out President Donald Trump for his remarks on O'Reilly, saying how "mortified" she felt "for the leader of our country to defend indefensible behavior.
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Read the full executive order "The Trump administration has conceded that its original Muslim ban was indefensible," said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.
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Regardless of whether they either believe or understand the ISIS message, they will claim ISIS inspiration because the alternative -- mass murder without a clear rationale -- is indefensible.
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But those efforts, such as New York City's morally indefensible racial dragnet program called stop-and-frisk, did as much damage as good in the black communities.
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum called the government's action "indefensible" and said Trump was "playing chicken" by giving Congress six months to improve DACA or cancel it.
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"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind &aposStand Your Ground&apos to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through," Crump said.
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The government decided not to prosecute again, but the news reports about the case had already shed light on some of Menendez's actions, which were pretty indefensible.
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Following Trump's announcement on Thursday, Al Gore had this to say in a statement:Removing the United States from the Paris Agreement is a reckless and indefensible action.
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He is being twisted into an indefensible pretzel of contradictions For 9 days, over 20 million people early voted thinking the FBI had something big on Hillary.
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But this whole MTV News situation is an indefensible move, no matter how likable or important you've become, or how great your episode of Wild'n Out is.
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Norbert Röttgen, a Christian Democrat who leads parliament's foreign-policy committee, finds the government's line that Nord Stream 2 is a commercial, not a geopolitical, matter "indefensible".
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The city does not shirk its obligation in a budget that provides over $1 billion annually for homeless services, making the federal cuts all the more indefensible.
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"The decision to oust honorable, well-trained, and patriotic service members based on nothing more than their gender identity is undiluted discrimination and therefore indefensible," they wrote.
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"Unless N.Y.C. schools flush every drinking water tap every evening for 2 hours routinely, their sampling technique is both unreliable and scientifically and morally indefensible," she wrote.
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Ralph Northam's (D) past behavior appearing in a photo showing blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe is "indefensible," joining a slew of Democrats condemning the photo.
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"[Barr's tweet was] an indefensible moment, but at the same time, you hired a monster and then you asked why the monster was killing villagers," he said.
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The attention paid to fake news since the election has focused largely on fabrications and outright lies, because they are indefensible, easy to identify and extraordinarily viral.
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As Weinstein's position becomes increasingly indefensible as reports of his behavior keep pouring in — and they will — the foundation of this one is eroding by the day.
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Had Pence mocked the moderator for whatever reason, argued that the microphone was faulty, or defended an indefensible position, the Democrats could easily have had their win.
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Why even bother re-testing if the IOC's confidence in the test is so low they view it as indefensible in the Court of Arbitration for Sport?
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"Not only is it terrible optics for Republicans, it's also morally indefensible," Caroline Kitchens, federal affairs manager and a policy analyst with the R Street Institute, said.
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The conceit that the routine practice of claiming Native-ness is largely harmless and that most people bar themselves from spreading such falsities is an indefensible lie.
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Trump's farewell to Porter — "We wish him well, he worked very hard" — was criticized immediately as a defense of a man whose alleged acts render him indefensible.
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Craig Melvin called her remarks "indefensible" as well as "ignorant and racist," and Al Roker insisted she "owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country."
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"By rescinding his earlier executive order, President Trump makes one thing perfectly clear: His original travel ban was indefensible -- legally, constitutionally and morally," he said in a statement.
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It is our representatives seeking the truth about our election in 2016 and we have the right to know how this guy defends what appears to be indefensible.
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It minimized and justified inexcusable behavior and, more important, an indefensible point of view about 51 percent of the population by the most powerful man in the world.
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"This is an indefensible attack on workers by the billion dollar corporations that profit from their labor," said Jim Conigliaro, Jr., the founder of the Independent Drivers Guild.
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But he opposes any return to pre-1967 lines, which he says would be indefensible, and demands Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state in any peace deal.
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Craig Melvin called her remarks "indefensible" as well as "ignorant and racist," and Al Roker insisted she "owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country."
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"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind `Stand Your Ground' to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said.
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But there are two things that are indefensible: The company still refuses to acknowledge publicly that this problem exists, and Apple sells the refurbished phones with shorter warranties.
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In the course of defending Obamacare, centrist pundits and institutions made a moral argument about the brutality of health uninsurance that also renders our current system totally indefensible.
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First of all, Kris says this mere days after Scott had another woman hiding in his Dubai hotel bathroom, which led to Kim Kardashian's indefensible slut shaming rant.
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Trump justified his risky and indefensible action with an effort at misdirection worthy of the three-card monte dealers who still fleece yokels on the sidewalks of Manhattan.
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But no amount of scolding from Republicans and Democrats in Washington, the media, or even some of his own advisers will likely deter Trump from his indefensible message.
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Which brings us to the indefensible refusal of Apple to help the FBI access information locked within an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernadino mass murderers.
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Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Company, described Gunn's past tweets as "indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values" in a statement announcing Gunn's dismissal on Friday.
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"Rudy is being called on to defend the indefensible," John Avlon, the editor in chief of The Daily Beast and a former Giuliani speechwriter, said recently on CNN.
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Finally, she understood how central abstractions were in legitimizing unwarranted authority, in pitting people against one another, and in justifying indefensible wars, discrimination and other forms of brutality.
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" Coderre, who responded to the allegations today by announcing the city would be removing Jutra's name from various locations across Montreal, called the claims against the filmmaker "indefensible.
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Pakistan essentially amounts to a relatively indefensible sliver astride the Indus River, with flat plains in the east and mountain redoubts populated by hostile tribes in the west.
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Former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden in a new interview rips President Trump's "indefensible" Twitter comments in the wake of the London Bridge terrorist attack.
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Rather than advance a vision of national unity that he claims to represent, his indefensible equivocation can only inflame the most vicious forces of division within our country.
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"It is scientifically indefensible to say -- as the TPC report of last Friday does -- that the framework would have little macroeconomic feedback impact," Hassett said. http://bit.ly/2xleOy4.
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Those who staunchly defend the VA in light of the indefensible suffering it often causes are putting the federal bureaucracy ahead of the veterans it's supposed to serve.
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Which is why individual GOP senators are able to return contributions from Wynn while the official party organizations are trying to defend what is increasingly an indefensible position.
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Students, faculty and alumni of elite universities are among the most liberal people in American society and yet, many of my classmates continue to stand behind indefensible admissions practices.
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Specifically, Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, had said DACA was indefensible because a related — but different — program called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans was suspended by federal courts.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, on the other hand, reiterated the party's full backing of Trump's candidacy despite his indefensible treatment of women (among other GOP policy apostasies).
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I'm not necessarily even sure how I got up here, but I'm aware that this is an indefensible mountain, and I'm aware that I should not be on it.
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"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind &aposStand Your Ground&apos to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said.
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In the mid-1980s, Colgate-Palmolive acquired 50 percent of Hawley & Hazel, which produces the toothpaste, and the name and its indefensible branding were changed—at least in English.
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And then Republicans are right back where they began: deciding not just whether they can defend the indefensible, but whether they can acquit it of all charges as well.
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It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 85033 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible.
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If your best friend commits a series of indefensible acts, you don't get a pass from condemning that behavior because you have known each other for a long time.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Horn said.
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It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting -- it was memorial day too -- i went 2 far & do not want it defended -- it was egregious Indefensible.
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But while those events explain his diminished political fortunes and failed presidential campaign, they didn't force him into his current role as a prime defender of an indefensible man.
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Since the publication of this Guardian piece, Lin-Manuel Miranda has publicly condemned Weinstein, and George Clooney called the producer's behavior "indefensible" in an interview with The Daily Beast.
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The change would be "unwarranted and indefensible," said the bipartisan group of senators that included Charles Grassley from Iowa and Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota in a letter to Trump.
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It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too- i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible.
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The Electoral College is indefensible under any conceivable metric: Five Americans have won the popular vote for president in my lifetime; only three of them actually held the office.
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The publications reported that he reversed his decision to host the G7 summit at his golf resort in Florida after learning that moderate Republicans saw the decision as indefensible.
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In 19963, while serving as South Africa's ambassador to the United Nations, he stated that discrimination on the basis of skin color — the foundation of apartheid rule — was indefensible.
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"These infection attempts are reckless, and probably indefensible," said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, adding that the company had already been exposed for abuses previously.
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It was 21625 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2900 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible.
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Who'd have guessed that opting to ruin one of America's most unique and pristine landscapes would prove to be not only morally indefensible but also a terrible business decision?
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Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Friday morning that the CNN report was "indefensible and inaccurate," and he has also called the Times article untrue.
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Iran broke from its indefensible denials and admitted — and conditionally apologized for — the accident, while blaming the U.S. and the Soleimani strike for initiating the dangerous chain of events.
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At a time in history when we're armed with solid science and sufficient resources to deploy it, letting malaria continue to be a death sentence is arguably ethically indefensible.
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Their rhetoric is carefully calculated to put abortion proponents in the position of having to defend the seemingly indefensible: choosing to end a pregnancy because of a congenital anomaly.
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Critics of Backpage (and other sites like it) condemn this use of unmitigated internet freedom — and, indeed, it is indefensible, especially when those trafficked into sexual service are children.
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"The cartoon that ran in the international print edition of The Times last Thursday was clearly anti-Semitic and indefensible and we apologize for its publication," the spokesperson said.
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But that decision — and the push for secrecy and mania for speed that have accompanied it — has left Republicans in an indefensible position, and with a very weak bill.
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They can both only exist in a conservative informational environment where independent intellectual authorities are disregarded and a certain set of politically convenient but indefensible ideas are treated as catechisms.
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Forced to respond to the mounting allegations against Trump, Republicans who try to loyally defend the administration will find themselves saying absurd things that are rendered indefensible by subsequent events.
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And the market helps shape the way the public feels and thinks: They make things seem cool and uncool, defensible and indefensible, right and wrong, the future and the past.
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Those are just a few of the many embarrassing episodes from the past few years where Republican lawmakers had opportunities to condemn the indefensible, and many have chosen not to.
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Donald Trump Is Running Some Really Insecure Email Servers Reminder: Public Officials Using Private Email Servers Is Indefensible We confirmed that science was not exactly a priority during this election.
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He defended Facebook's increasingly indefensible decision to publish political ads that contain lies, saying that to do otherwise would be putting too much power in the hands of tech company.
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But despite a few low notes, above all, Kamikaze reminds us loud and clear why Eminem is "a fucking invincible, indefensible, despicable difficult prick" — in the most compelling way possible.
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"I'm not going to defend the indefensible," said Johnson when asked if he could pledge to "100%" support Trump given the spate of recent allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg described it as "another terrorist outrage against innocent civilians", while the U.S. State Department said it was the latest "indefensible violence targeting innocent people throughout Turkey".
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It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible [sic].
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Bella Thorne's bf is leaping to defend what might seem indefensible, and demanding Rob Lowe back off his girl ... despite her totally tone deaf comment about the deadly Montecito mudslides.
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Sure, Alain Vigneault insisted on Tanner Glass in his lineup and made indefensible decisions with his defensemen's minutes and matchups that hamstrung the Rangers, but Karlsson was the Senators' everything.
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It was 7 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible [sic].
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Yet his interpretation of what he calls "the Christian message" is derided by most scientists and educators, and resented even by some Christians who consider it indefensible and even embarrassing.
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That means periodic relapse, like Eldred's, is probably going to be a part of recovery, and punishing these people for their illness is "morally indefensible," Newman-Polk argued in court.
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In an e-mailed statement, the Turkish foreign ministry called on the international community to act swiftly against what it called the "indefensible" crimes of the Russian and Syrian administration.
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Like Justice Scalia, Judge Gorsuch would reject as unlawful any agency action that is based on the indefensible belief that an executive order can contradict, amend, or qualify a statute.
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"Had Trudeau caved in to the demands on a whole range of issues, it would have been politically indefensible in Canada," said Lawrence Herman, an international trade lawyer in Toronto.
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Where a more polished spokesman might merely put a "nicer gloss on the indefensible," Mr. Spicer's gaffes serve to remind us of the "stupid, impulsive" things the president himself says.
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It would be indefensible to not obtain his account, either by compelling him to testify in person or forcing his publisher to hand over the manuscript, before the trial ends.
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"Removing the United States from the Paris agreement is a reckless and indefensible action," said Al Gore, the former vice president who has become an evangelist for fighting climate change.
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"There have been a lot of cases in the dumping and countervailing-duty, the trade-remedies laws, where, in my opinion, the decisions are really indefensible," Lighthizer said in 2017.
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"Donald Trump signed his second attempt at a Muslim Ban this morning, behind closed doors, admitting that his first order was completely indefensible," the party's national director, Dan Cantor, said earlier.
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And while many may object to them going to bat for people some may deem indefensible, they believe they're just doing their due diligence for the benefit of all parties involved.
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On behalf of several tabloids that stooped to a cringe-worthy low level today, we apologize, Ms. Jackson; they've made an indefensible snafu in trying to comment on your personal style.
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According to Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn, Gunn's tweets were "indefensible and inconsistent with [Walt Disney Studios'] values," leading to the severing of the studio's business relationship with the director.
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"This is an indefensible attack on workers by the billion-dollar corporations that profit from their labor," Jim Conigliaro Jr., the founder of the Independent Drivers Guild, said in a statement.
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It would be an indefensible dereliction of my public duty as a chief constable not to have investigated such serious allegations against a former prime minister, even though he is deceased.
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Toomey stressed ahead of the vote that his proposal has bipartisan support across the country, and said it would be indefensible to not allow the Senate to at least debate it.
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It is apparent to the 3.5 million American citizens in Puerto Rico that the fact that we do not have five representatives and two senators places us in an indefensible position.
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Its blasphemy and anti-Ahmadiyya laws are indefensible, and, through acts of commission and omission, the government deserves blame for the virulence and violence against the Ahmadiyya community throughout Pakistani society.
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"It was 2 in the morning and I was Ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible," she wrote.
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I sensed that he believed I had gone over to the Dark Side, loyally supporting indefensible policies; I felt that he was unfair and unreasonable in his critiques of our administration.
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Now, with his erratic and indefensible conduct, he is accelerating the breach, pushing the right into ever-more cult-like behavior, principles laid aside one after another in service of power.
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That rumored move has already drawn criticism from other energy companies, which have called the proposal "legally indefensible" and argue that it would force consumers to pay billions more for electricity.
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Whatever your view of Gawker's journalism — and personally, I think publishing the Hogan tape was indefensible — the case does raise questions about whether billionaire-funded lawsuits could threaten freedom of speech.
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"To be anti-choice on a policy level is absolutely indefensible from an economic justice, racial justice, gender justice and human rights standpoint," Lindy West wrote at the New York Times.
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"It's very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation," Tolentino writes in "Always Be Optimizing, "to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible.
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He is showing, daily, how the truth can be drowned under a sea of irrelevance, how easily the defense of the indefensible can go down if it is cast as entertainment.
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Although easily dismissed as just another example of Russia trolling the West, one expert believes it could be an act of desperation, aimed at defending a position which is increasingly indefensible.
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It's not exactly a victimless crime, but "Hustlers" brushes off any serious ethical qualms, partly by making the men, for the most part, interchangeable jerks in an indefensible line of work.
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Decius says that he learned to accept what he calls Trump's "unconventionality as a candidate," and maintains that his support never wavered, even when Trump said things that he found indefensible.
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Her legacy would be "defending the indefensible and not being truthful with the American people," David Axelrod, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and a CNN contributor, once said.
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I get the fact that Congressman Devin Nunes and Senator Lindsey Graham have a contest going over who can debase themselves in public the most by defending indefensible actions by Trump.
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They do not advertise the fact that their principals benefit from an indefensible quirk in the United States tax code that allows them to pay lower taxes on their capital gains.
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But after three years of Trump in office – after three years of hateful rhetoric, indecency and indefensible conduct – some white evangelicals are rejecting him as out of step with their values.
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The Education Department's decision to let guaranty agencies gouge struggling people is indefensible — not least because the additional fees bear no relationship at all to the expenses incurred by the companies.
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And when the time comes it may be worth a defeat in the Senate to force Republicans in swing states to defend what some voters may have come to think indefensible.
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And if Cory Gardner or Thom Tillis or any of them don't think that's an indefensible position, they should ask the 40-plus House Republicans who lost their seats in 2018.
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Francis, the first pope to visit Nagasaki in 38 years and only the second in history, told a gathering in a park at the blast site that nuclear weapons are indefensible.
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In an interview, he said the decision to auction drilling rights at Dinosaur National Monument was "indefensible," part of a new wave of "signs and signals" about the administration's policy intentions.
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We have an appellate court that is allowing the Trump administration to hide from the American people until after election the consequences of its indefensible position not to defend the law.
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Treating children recruited by terrorist organizations as criminals rather than victims, and sentencing people to death for protesting, would also be regarded as morally and legally indefensible in much of the world.
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In a state that has $9.1 billion in unpaid bills; $239 billion in adjusted pension liabilities; and $37.4 billion in bonds outstanding, spending more money on just about anything is clearly indefensible.
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And one of the people who are going to apologize to him for these insults, but he could have easily said, what Roseanne said was indefensible, it was an abomination, or something.
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The United States, Britain and its allies maintained just enough troops there – the Berlin Brigade – so that while West Berlin remained militarily indefensible, it still could not be taken without a fight.
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Man the fuck up and say something interesting These comments aren't indefensible, but they are as trite, as smug, and as self-congratulatory as the 'fake grief' Long is lashing out at.
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And I had even suggested in my book the right time for it would be the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which is a completely inexcusable, indefensible, unprovoked act of brutality.
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When Trump tried to bully Comey into silence via Twitter on Friday, House Speaker Paul Ryan repeated the go-to dodge he's used for months to enable the indefensible things Trump does.
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Although meticulously factual and spectacularly acted, The Act is the kind of entertainment that ultimately makes the enjoyment I get from the true crime genre feel seriously questionable, if not entirely indefensible.
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This article was originally published on THUMP UK Defending the Indefensible is a semi-regular series which sees us trying to find merit in the abject, the terrible, and the deathly dull.
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Defending the Indefensible is a semi-regular series which sees us trying to find merit in the abject, the terrible, and the deathly dull—or vice versa fault in the otherwise lauded.
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"There was a component that had been building for some time — a feeling that I was starting to, in some cases, defend the indefensible," Ms. Powell said of her departure from Google.
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And even if it were possible to isolate climate damages in the United States, it would be strategically foolish (not to mention morally indefensible) to ignore foreign harms when evaluating pollution standards.
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The Turkish foreign ministry said the strikes had killed more than 60 civilians and complained in a statement about what it said were the "indefensible" crimes of the Russian and Syrian governments.
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I'm not going to come down here just because he happens to be a nominee of a president I support, or a nominee from my party, and try to defend the indefensible.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose decision to delay the formal transmission of the impeachment articles angered Republicans, said a vote against calling witnesses was "even more indefensible" in light of Bolton's reported account.
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" The House's seven impeachment managers, who will begin making their case for Trump's removal on the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon, said the president's trial brief "confirms that his misconduct is indefensible.
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They've found it awkward to defend Mr. Trump since they know that squeezing the Ukrainians for desperately needed military aid in their war against Russia for his own political purpose is indefensible.
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Graham, played brilliantly by Meryl Streep, is outraged and incensed that so many young lives are being lost just to buy time for a cause that is indefensible and doomed to defeat.
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And openness is protective against the things that went wrong at MIT — a culture of secrecy that enabled people to intellectualize the indefensible and end up giving cover to a sexual predator.
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"Lawyers at the Justice Department often find that a law could have been written more clearly," he said, "but it's rare that one is written so poorly as to be completely indefensible."
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Continuing to accept ad money attached to what's still an essentially unregulated space, when there are so many visible and public concerns because scams really are part of the furniture, really is indefensible.
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In that timespan, Republicans have quickly condemned Trump for the comment many of them have deemed "inexcusable" and "indefensible," prompting Trump to issue his first-ever apology of his nearly 16-month campaign.
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"What the North Koreans are doing is reckless, it's indefensible, it's in defiance of (United Nations) resolutions," Johnson told BBC radio, speaking ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday and Saturday.
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It was a full-throated defense of his indefensible position on net neutrality—a position that only the strongest free-market libertarians and people whose paychecks come from Comcast or Verizon could support.
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Pence's strategy was ineluctable—Trump's basic indecency has forced his supporters to find creative ways around defending the indefensible—but he was also providing a template for the Republican Party's post-Trump reckoning.
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The Turkish Foreign Ministry said the air strikes had killed more than 60 civilians and complained in a statement about what it said were the "indefensible" crimes of the Russian and Syrian governments.
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He also wrote a blog post that week stating his belief that the death penalty was not morally defensible -- though his lawsuit points out that he did not argue it was legally indefensible.
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" Related: Meryl Streep speaks out on 'disgraceful' Harvey Weinstein allegations George Clooney spoke with The Daily Beast Monday night and called the accusations against the man he has known for 20 years "indefensible.
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Israel, which withdrew troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, has called the pre-1967 war West Bank boundaries indefensible and has pledged to hold on to all of Jerusalem forever.
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Op-Ed Contributor ATLANTA — Over the past few months, a cavalcade of Republican policy wonks, pundits and partisan strategists have beclowned themselves on national television trying to defend the indefensible: their party's nominee.
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To refer this way to a nation that lost six million citizens to Hitler's regime, was completely destroyed and then was handed over to a Communist regime by the Western powers is indefensible.
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Forced again to defend the indefensible, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday said the president's Huntsville stand was about "honoring the men and women who fought to defend" the flag.
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The alacrity with which he did so, in short, appears to have shocked Mr Graham and other Republican senators into defending the indefensible before they fully cottoned on to what they were doing.
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Although her much more popular song "I Kissed a Girl" has been the subject of critical retrospection for its rudimentary and arguably exploitative use of queer sexuality, "Ur So Gay," is just indefensible.
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With 28503 percent of people with a rare disease still waiting for a treatment, it is indefensible to consider weakening a tax credit that encourages the development of new and innovative orphan drugs.
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This was all compounded by Louis-Dreyfus's performance as Meyer; at once, her character can be sympathetic and hilariously indefensible, a high-wire act that most actors could only dream of pulling off.
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It is indefensible, especially in today's context for you to say you believe in the Freedom of Information Law and for you to sign bills reforming the Freedom of Information Law, but excluding yourself.
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Cipollone's letter called the rush to recommend a contempt finding for Barr "legally indefensible" because the Judiciary Committee has failed to lay out "any proper legislative purpose" for pursuing issues that Mueller already investigated.
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Rooney is just one House Republican, but his willingness to publicly rebuke the president suggests patience is growing thin with Trump's unpersuasive efforts to defend the indefensible, even among the GOP rank and file.
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In a statement Wednesday, newsletter editor and publisher Susan Demas called Ballenger's comments about the calamity "indefensible" and said he would no longer be associated "in any way, shape or form" with the publication.
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The company pledged 240 million shares to staff, including an indefensible one-time bonus of 103 million of them to entice Spiegel from his apparent reluctance to engage in this wealth-affirming liquidity event.
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"Republicans will do whatever they can to distract from their failed records and indefensible support of Donald Trump, and they will be rejected come Election Day," said Lauren Passalacqua, a spokeswoman for the DSCC.
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"The Department's exclusion for sex reassignment surgery was not supported by medical evidence when it was implemented in 1999, and it is even more indefensible today," the two transgender veterans wrote in the petition.
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Democrats criticized the policy as inhumane, and in a sign that even the White House realized it was indefensible, Trump falsely claimed the policy was required by federal law and blamed Democrats for it.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn told Variety.
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There are two interlocking things happening here: Republicans think they need to defend their actions with indefensible claims, and think they can make those claims to reporters' faces without being asked to defend them.
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I feel confident in saying that because all the recent news coverage of indefensible -- and in many cases criminal -- male behavior has caused many men like myself to do some personal, sober mental accounting.
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"I said yesterday that Russia was defending the indefensible," said Matthew Rycroft, Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, "and it sounds as though they've taken that particular tactic to a new level of depravity."
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The Republican lawmaker had initially slammed Trump for his failing to directly condemn the hate groups, saying he would not "defend the indefensible" and that the president's "moral authority is compromised" by his response.
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Overruling the dean of the cathedral at the time, the suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York called the statue "theologically and historically indefensible" and ordered Ms. Sandys to take it away.
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"They have a history of losing members after they've gone too far and their position is indefensible to the rest of the conference," the senior GOP aide said Sunday after Poe announced his departure.
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Even as news organizations were pruning reporters and editors, Facebook was pruning its users' news, with the commercially appealing but ethically indefensible idea that people should see only the news they want to see.
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I am worried that well-meaning people who deny the possibility of substantial biological differences among human populations are digging themselves into an indefensible position, one that will not survive the onslaught of science.
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I think the profusion of veto points makes governance too difficult, the disproportionate power given to small states is indefensible, and the absence of any mechanism to resolve conflicts between different branches is dangerous.
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"President Trump's brief confirms that his misconduct is indefensible," the seven Democratic impeachment managers wrote in a 32-page memo responding to the White House trial brief, which was unveiled exactly 24 hours earlier.
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In "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell wrote that "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible," noting that banal euphemisms are often used to describe war and other atrocities.
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Israel has long rejected any return to what it has described as indefensible boundaries that existed before it captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war.
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The fact of the matter is that, from the inside, it's not always easy to draw a bright line between doing your job and doing something in defense of your boss that is morally indefensible.
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She's out-plotted her little brother, supposed tactical genius Tyrion Lannister, by abandoning the family home of Casterly Rock as comparatively indefensible, and committing her forces to wiping out Olenna Tyrell and her people instead.
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"Regrettably, Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who is seeking re-election this year in a state that Mr. Obama won twice, has adopted his party's indefensible line," read an editorial in The Toledo Blade.
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GINGRICH: What you are watching is a man who is a great professional who is now in a totally impossible situation in all to get off television desperately trying to explain and defend the indefensible.
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In his August decision, Judge William Duffin characterized the "misconduct" of Dassey's first attorney as "indefensible," and he said that authorities had inappropriately promised the then-16-year-old leniency in exchange for his confession.
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They all say, more or less, the same thing: its CEO stepped down, sales are waining, and L Brands' chief marketing officer Ed Razek's comments to Vogue on transgender and plus-size models are indefensible.
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" The New York Republican said, "The tweet he put out this morning is indefensible, but it is unfortunate that we have seen so many attacks on the part of that particular subject on this President.
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The former minister added that the cuts were indefensible given that high-earning taxpayers were being granted additional cash at the same time and that the government was at risk of creating a divided society.
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The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which involves separating migrant children from their parents, is cruel and indefensible—just listen to the audio of the young children taken by border patrol weeping in agony.
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I'll soon be adding to what I've already posted on the mix of bad forest and development policies, indefensible homeowner choices, combustible invasive species and climate change that is amplifying fire danger in the West.
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"The Commission's chair and members are overwhelmingly clergy or scholars known for extreme positions opposing LGBTQI and reproductive rights, and some have taken public stances in support of indefensible human rights violations," the letter states.
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A former top aide to Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney of President Donald Trump, has called his old boss a "right-wing conspiracy nut" and "defender of the indefensible" in a series of scathing attacks.
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But defending Italian fascism, while extreme, is still allowed in public discourse: Separated from the specter of Auschwitz, it seems, people have trouble defining what exactly about fascism is bad enough to make it indefensible.
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And so, it seems appropriate to ask the sizable number of Americans, including evangelical Christians, who deem President Trump's words and actions "unpresidential" but support his re-election, when — if ever — they become morally indefensible?
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Salary disclosures the BBC was forced to make six months ago revealed not only unacceptably high pay for top presenters and managers but also an indefensible pay gap between men and women doing equal work.
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On Friday, oil and gas trade groups joined with wind and solar organizations in a joint statement condemning the plan, saying that it was "legally indefensible" and would force consumers to pay more for electricity.
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"This obsessive procedural nitpicking seems like a desperate attempt to shift attention away from the actual substance of the complaint, now largely validated by the White House itself, because the substance is indefensible," says Sanchez.
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His hospital's internal review, which was read in court by the judge handling one of the cases, cited "a serious and indefensible diagnosis" and raised questions of basic competency, according to accounts of the case.
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It is hard and painful to refute your ancestry, disentangle individual honor from a lost and morally indefensible cause like that of the Confederacy, knit together a nation after a Civil War and 750,000 dead.
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For an institution plagued by allegations of sexism and notoriously shutting out women of color, to deny twigs' the opportunity to sing and claim otherwise is indefensible—especially considering the scandals it's currently embroiled in.
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The puzzle — and it is a puzzle, even for those who have long since concluded that something is terribly wrong with the modern G.O.P. — is why the party is pushing this harsh, morally indefensible agenda.
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Under this tax treatment, top executives in both private equity and venture capital pay lower capital gains taxes, instead of higher income taxes — "an indefensible quirk in the United States tax code," Mr. Moritz wrote.
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NAGASAKI (Reuters) - Pope Francis, speaking in one of the only two cities hit by atomic bombs in history, appealed for the abolition of nuclear weapons on Sunday, saying their mere possession was perverse and indefensible.
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Love, a Utah lawmaker who is the first Haitian-American to serve in the Capitol, said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union that she "can't defend the indefensible" when it comes to Trump's reported comments.
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If Asante was in fact being bullied, that is indefensible – but the way that the majority of viewers engaged with the film mirrored the Bird Box memes that many of them were sharing mere weeks before.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday condemned the "cruel and indefensible" detention of executives from U.S. refiner Citgo in Caracas who were under house arrest, top U.S. envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams said.
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After all, would you rather talk about a totally indefensible decision, in the eyes of lots of Republicans, by the President on foreign policy or just attack Democrats for their so-called "witch hunt" against Trump?
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His inability to navigate its complexities meant he couldn't make persuasive arguments on behalf of the bills he supported, and he routinely made statements that undercut the legislative process and forced Republicans to defend the indefensible.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday condemned the "cruel and indefensible" detention of executives from U.S. refiner Citgo in Caracas who were under house arrest, top U.S. envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams said.
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" The Foreign Press Association, an organization that works to help journalists covering the region, condemned the "disgraceful and indefensible behavior" of the Israeli PM's security staff and called the incident a "blatant case of ethnic profiling.
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A direct Muslim ban would likely be unconstitutional — and it would certainly be indefensible — and so Trump has instead banned refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries, but left a loophole for "religious minorities" from these countries.
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" (The AHCA would roll back the Medicaid expansion and cut $880 billion from Medicaid over the next 10 years.) Labrador responded by saying, "No one wants anyone to die," then, incredibly: "That line is so indefensible.
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As we've seen, part of a press secretary's job is defending the indefensible and damn if Sanders didn't try pretty hard when comments about slavery made by Chief-of-Staff John Kelly were making the rounds.
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But in this specific case, calling for Spicer's head is another way of saying Trump ought to have a less gaffe-prone, more analytically rigorous spokesman—someone who could put a nicer gloss on the indefensible.
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During an interview on ABC's "This Week," McMaster was asked about comments from retired Army Lt. Colonel John Nagl, who said McMaster is in an impossible situation because the president expects him to defend the indefensible.
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The Canadian experience was not free of sin—as the indefensible treatment of the First Nations demonstrates—and was, as well, not free of the "colonial cringe" that bedevils so many countries overattached to the motherland.
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" In 1900, the Democratic Party platform included the belief that "private monopolies are indefensible and intolerable," declaring: "Unless their insatiate greed is checked, all wealth will be aggregated in a few hands and the Republic destroyed.
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While working to safeguard the separation of religion and state is a lofty goal, using that laudable tenet to needlessly and shamelessly trample on multiculturalism and suppress civil liberties is an indefensible assault on religious tolerance.
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"It was inexcusable and indefensible, and the first thing I did was flash my own retrospective lens, if there was something I never saw or detected — and there wasn't — during my association with Mark," he said.
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But the Christians have particular reasons to meditate upon them — and to consider that they don't just apply to sexual predations, but to the worldly impulses that make otherwise decent people into defenders of the indefensible.
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The prosecutorial tactics used against him, including deep dives into his sexual identity and encouraging staff members to steal items from his office, were deemed by the judge and the Justice Department to be wholly indefensible.
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He has also defended the president against the seemingly indefensible, including the president's Inauguration Dayspeech at CIA headquarters, which he used in part to recount his election victory, and his refusal to release his tax returns.
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Moreover, at some point, the courts will overturn the legally indefensible rulings issued by judges in San Francisco and Brooklyn that now prevent the administration from carrying through on its decision to terminate the DACA program.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was trying to "defend the indefensible" over alleged atrocities committed by the country's military against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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"The Trump Administration's persistent and indefensible denial of climate change — and their continued assault on actions essential to stemming its increasing devastation — is reprehensible, and I will use every available legal tool to fight their dangerous agenda."
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After all, plenty of celebrated writers, composers and indeed directors have led indefensible private lives: Sir Thomas Malory may have scribbled parts of "Le Morte d'Arthur", the greatest depiction of Arthurian romance, in prison, possibly for rape.
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"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind 'Stand Your Ground' to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said in a statement following news that Drejka was charged.
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It's unsurprising that Sanders, who has a history of lying and defending Trump's indefensible comments, has taken the low road and chosen this interview to throw accusations at the media that are not grounded in any reality.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," read a statement from Walt Disney Studios chairman, Alan Horn.
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We looked at the indefensible ways in which economists still act as if it were a man's man's man's world; what we learned of Nadia Savchenko and Virginia Raggi made us doubt it (Run the world (Girls)).
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These rulings reflected Holmes's long-held belief that free speech was "logically indefensible" — that just as government should be permitted to punish actions that cause harm, so it should be permitted to punish words that cause harm.
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This article is indicative of two tragedies: well-intentioned yet indefensible medical overreach denying the personhood of those with disabilities, and the severely inadequate psychological, social and economic support for the families of children with profound disabilities.
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He should have seized the moment to roll out new sanctions designations and put the EU, as well as council permanent member states Russia and China, on the defensive by forcing them to explain their indefensible inaction.
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The bucking of the establishment and its conventional wisdoms is, in fact, something the president relishes, most particularly when it comes to otherwise indefensible nostrums which have embedded themselves into the collective mind of the body politic.
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Do you think with Trump, and some of the things he has done that people find indefensible — like refusing (at first) to disavow David Duke — that the "both sides" construct is too reductive for this political climate?
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It's a gnawing problem when you consider that Keith Olbermann, one of media's most noteworthy misogynists, keeps getting hired by reputable outfits like Conde Nast and ESPN, despite his utterly indefensible and violent outbursts about conservative women.
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The longtime defense lawyer, cable news staple and professor emeritus at Harvard prides himself on being a contrarian who isn't afraid to defend the seemingly indefensible: His past clients include O.J. Simpson, Mike Tyson and Jeffrey Epstein.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Walt Disney Studios chair Alan Horn said in a statement.
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According to Lieut-General Kellogg, Mr Trump "wants to leave his options open" on Ukraine, considering it unwise "to start from an adversarial position": his much-vaunted negotiating prowess is a catch-all excuse for otherwise indefensible pronouncements.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values," Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter at the time of the firing.
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That strategy was vindicated at the first vice presidential debate in Farmville, Virginia Monday night, where her running mate Tim Kaine browbeat Trump's running mate Mike Pence repeatedly, forcing Pence to choose between defending the indefensible and lying.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Disney chairman Alan Horn said in the statement obtained by PEOPLE.
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To defend its indefensible position, the industry asks Congress to believe a bit of a whopper: The billions diverted from Treasury are not federal funds, since the reinsurance program is fully funded by collections from the private sector.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Disney chairman Alan Horn said in a statement that PEOPLE obtained.
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In my judgment, it would be tragic if the indefensible behavior suggested by McCain (who should know better) and Cruz provokes a new Democratic majority to rewire the Senate rules to overcome a Republican wall of partisan intransigence.
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In response, Professor Eric Posner wrote that Trump's "attack on Judge Robart's integrity is indefensible," and he demands that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch denounce Trump's behavior as a condition of his being confirmed for the Supreme Court.
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Israel's abuses against the Palestinians occur within a territorial and political conflict, albeit one in which, unquestionably, great and indefensible wrongs have been done; the Holocaust was an attempt at ethnic annihilation in which 6m people were murdered.
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I do know that somewhere along the way, a great artist with good intentions somehow became compromised and then corrupted by his own power and abused that power in ways that were, by turns, arrogant, damaging and indefensible.
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Biden's late-in-life metamorphoses are not unwelcome—they return him to a place within the mainstream of his party, and mark a retreat from many of the indefensible positions he once took on social issues and crime.
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Inequality has reached morally indefensible heights, power concentrates in ever fewer corporate hands, poverty continues to crush souls and according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the environment is beginning to crash.
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The shitty thing is, I will continue to do this, because I have an irrational love for this sport and an even more irrational love for my favorite team, made even more indefensible because it is the Jets.
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One of its most objectionable and indefensible features — the sudden ban on entry for previously approved green card holders from targeted countries — was personally dictated by Bannon and Miller over the Department of Homeland Security's objections, per CNN.
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Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's pick to be acting White House chief of staff, described Mr. Trump in 2016 as a "terrible human being" who had said "disgusting and indefensible" things about women on the infamous "Access Hollywood" recording.
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But they have to say something to defend their indefensible pork, and so they now point to all of the supposed subsidies bestowed on other forms of energy, implicitly offering to sacrifice theirs after those others are removed.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," said Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn in a statement to ET.
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"The specific acts and pattern of conduct described to my office under oath — ranging from inappropriate sexual comments and comments about employee's sexual preferences to an unwanted sexual physical contact with an employee — are reprehensible and indefensible," Leahy said.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn told Fox News in a statement.
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"President Trump publicly committed himself to an indefensible goal: banning Muslims from coming to the United States," and the court should consider those statements in deciding whether the executive order is based on anti-Muslim animus, the ACLU says.
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Massive infrastructure projects, such as the new 5G wireless network, new advanced manufacturing investments and big biomedical research programs will all happen much faster if we substantially reduce the world's highest corporate tax rate and reform the indefensible code.
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"Frydman also wrote in a New York Times op-ed that "America's Mayor" — as Giuliani was called after the 9/11 attacks — had become President Donald Trump's "bumbling personal lawyer and henchman, his apologist and defender of the indefensible.
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"It was 2 in the morning and I was Ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible," Barr said in a tweet, which is no longer available.
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He said the news media had misinterpreted his message to his colleagues — that they should not "defend the indefensible" — and that Mr. Trump lacked "the discipline" to resist swiping back at him, according to a donor on the call.
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The cynical handling of the accusation against Judge Kavanaugh (holding it until the last minute) is completely indefensible and has laid it out there that Democrats now consider sexual assault accusations to be a political tool, like negative ads.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Alan F. Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement.
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While the casework in Zymere Perkins's case was plainly indefensible, the city's child welfare system over all has gotten much better at keeping children safe: safe from abusive or neglectful parents, and safe from unnecessarily being removed from home.
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Like he did with the indefensible water rule, we expected the president to recall the egregious habitat rule and reconsider the government's defense of the Fish and Wildlife Service in the Markle case, now pending in the Supreme Court.
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"I have every confidence that this unfounded and reckless lawsuit will be revealed for what it is — another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others," he said.
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"The Trump administration's persistent and indefensible denial of climate change — and their continued assault on actions essential to stemming its increasing devastation — is reprehensible, and I will use every available legal tool to fight their dangerous agenda," he said.
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"By rescinding his earlier executive order, President Trump makes one thing perfectly clear: his original travel ban was indefensible - legally, constitutionally and morally," said Attorney General Bob Ferguson of Washington state, which succeeded in having the previous ban suspended.
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So what if some of these jobs involve debt collection, claims denial, aggressive legal action or are otherwise punitive, cruel or simply morally indefensible in a society that can clearly afford to provide high-quality health care to everyone?
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"It was 2 in the morning and I was Ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible," she wrote in a message that has since been deleted.
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"Shocked by Unsworth's indefensible and baseless attacks, Musk answered to defend himself and the efforts of SpaceX, Tesla, and the Boring Company employees who had given up their days and nights to help find a solution," the motion to dismiss says.
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But Trump not only keeps bullshitting, he tends to demand that his team offer a zealous defense of whatever bullshit he happens to spout on any given day — putting staffers and legislative allies in the untenable position of defending the indefensible.
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After tapes were released of Trump's sexually aggressive comments about women, Christie said in what has become a frequent job hosting sports talk radio that the comments were "completely indefensible" but that he believed Trump was sincere in his apology.
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"What I am hearing about the allegations against R Kelly is absolutely horrifying and indefensible," she added, going on to describe how being sexually assaulted at age 23224 informed her mindset when she worked with Kelly in her mid-224s.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Walt Disney Company chairman Alan Horn said in a statement on July 20.
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The New York Times decided to end political cartoons in its international edition, following the publication in April of a "clearly anti-Semitic and indefensible" caricature of Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, as a dog leading a yarmulke-wearing Mr Trump.
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" BORIS JOHNSON MP, BROTHER OF JO AND FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY "Boundless admiration as ever for my brother Jo. We may not have agreed about Brexit but we are united in dismay at the intellectually and politically indefensible of the UK position.
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The Guardian called S-Town voyeuristic and "morally indefensible," while Jessica Goudeau argued in the Atlantic that the artistic achievement of S-Town, impressive though it was, might not have been worth its exploitation of McLemore's personal pain and lived experiences.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Disney chairman Alan Horn said in the statement obtained by PEOPLE at the time.
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It sounds to me like he's learned how to troll — to say something so outrageous or confusing or counterintuitive that, indefensible though the statement may be, the conversation takes a turn toward the thing you wanted it to be about.
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The entire thing hinged on these small, desperate actions by Allied paratroopers against increasingly powerful German units, and frantic defenses of an indefensible roadway by an increasingly overstretched and outgunned tank army, across a battlefield that's increasingly scarred by earlier engagements.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a statement provided to TechCrunch. 1.
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Being a Trump spokesperson means habitually defending the indefensible—from domestic abuse allegations against a White House aide to all manner of stories about the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign—and Sanders is likely used to it by now.
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"The Trump Administration refuses to accept that Congress is a co-equal branch of government, and its ongoing attempts to either slow-walk or ignore our legitimate oversight efforts are indefensible," said an official for the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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" In a statement to Refinery29, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn confirmed the dismissal: "The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him.
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Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Mr Hassett called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work "scientifically indefensible" and "fiction".
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The White House and congressional Republicans, who insisted on the exemptions as the price of bipartisan support for the legislation, bear the primary responsibility for the indefensible decision to prioritize corporate profits in the midst of a public health emergency.
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Though his White House had said Comey was fired after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote a memo concluding Comey's handling of the Clinton email case was indefensible, Trump, in a moment of admirable candor, explained that this wasn't true.
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And China's mercantilist trade practices are indefensible, particularly its use of non-tariff barriers to discourage foreign companies from coming to China, its insistence that non-Chinese companies share their technology, its outright theft of intellectual property and on and on.
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And though many House Republicans argue that the office has overreached in its investigations, their attempt to gut the ethics watchdog right after a campaign in which they'd harshly criticized Hillary Clinton's ethics proved politically indefensible — for now, at least.
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Peter Dutton, Australia's own little Trump and the arch-conservative most vociferous in defense of the indefensible on Manus and Nauru, has just been promoted to head a new super-ministry combining the Australian Border Force, police and intelligence services.
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"The settlement shows that Michigan saw its position as untenable and potentially indefensible at trial," wrote Zerhouni, who is now a founder and partner at Mighty Stream Capital Management LLC, a new firm focused on impact investing and litigation finance.
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The reversal, which was widely panned by foreign policy experts as too little, too late, did, however help to give cover to congressional Republicans, who were put in a difficult position following Trump's Helsinki comments, effectively asked to defend the indefensible.
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They did it because they were afraid of a full debate and vote to direct the president to remove armed forces from engaging in an indefensible war, and the U.S. military's role in creating and perpetuating the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Even though Poppy Bush's circle has always assumed that Jeb was on their side, believing that the invasion was a mistake because it would shatter the Middle East, Jeb stumbled around on that question and ended up defending his brother's indefensible war.
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"Trump's continuing missteps, punctuated by his outrageous and indefensible comments about Judge Curiel, make that goal much more difficult to achieve," said Lanhee Chen, a senior adviser to former presidential candidate Marco Rubio and a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution.
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" Clooney worked with Weinstein on the films From Dusk Till Dawn and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and gave an interview to The Daily Beast about the allegations a few days after the New York Times story broke, calling his alleged actions "indefensible.
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I can justify almost every bad habit or guilty pleasure with something flimsy (smoking looks cool, binge drinking makes me forget my life is falling apart, biting your nails gives you something to do other than smoking), but Vanderpump Rules is indefensible.
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Still, for Curry, who has called the criticism "annoying," the best response was to take a shot that was indefensible both in the sense that no one should have taken it and in the sense that no one could have stopped it.
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"Given Mylan's callous disregard for children with severe allergies underscored by recent outrageous and indefensible EpiPen price hikes, it's not surprising their CEO would also show such callous disregard for the truth, even when under oath," Duckworth told Gizmodo in a statement.
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Inside his squat red-and-black office building in suburban Stamford, Connecticut, he still spends time on the trading desk, buying and selling stocks, chatting with underlings about the markets and occasionally balling out traders who lose money for reasons he finds indefensible.
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Mnuchin made a vain effort to defend the President's comments on the Sunday shows, undoubtedly winning points for loyalty from the boss, but earning the disapprobation of many others in and out of the Jewish community for failing to roundly condemn the indefensible.
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All the political templates that moved against him domestically shifted in his favor diplomatically: Europe after Waterloo craved peace and stability, and Spanish decline continued, rendering her American possessions indefensible, as Adams made abundantly clear in negotiating the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819.
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Vinetz, from UCSD, called the one-month timeframe indefensible because it can take three weeks for leptospirosis symptoms to show up after infection; and because hurricane clean-up -- and the potential for exposure to leptospirosis that goes with it -- continued for weeks.
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Johnny Watterson, a columnist with the Irish Times, spared no poetry or indignation in decrying the Carvalho fight, and particularly its last few seconds of unanswered ground-and-pound from Carvalho's opponent, as a "calamitous and indefensible episode" in Irish sporting history.
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"You suddenly find yourself in a situation where you don't have any means to defend yourself and you don't have any friends left," Well, Sepp, you nailed it: you don't really have any means to defend yourself when you've done something indefensible.
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Musk's position is legally indefensible, considering a tweet in February of 2017 (since deleted), wherein he acknowledged one of the potter's mugs, whose design featured the mythological creature powering an electric car by farting into a funnel leading to the gas tank.
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Trump's tendency to plug his ears and advocate that we drill, baby, drill isn't simply ignorant of climate change, it's reckless and indefensible knowing that the humankind has stared over the precipice that is irreversible global warming and jumped off it anyway.
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"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, said in a statement obtained by CNN.
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And even if the lawsuit fails, the administration's support for an incredibly flimsy legal challenge — one so indefensible that three career Justice Department lawyers withdrew from the case — is a clear signal of Republican priorities: G.O.P. to Americans with health problems: Drop dead.
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Child pornography is widely acknowledged as an indefensible evil: the real-life exploitation of children and all of the consequences that can follow, including irreversible physical and psychological damage as well as 15 to 30 years of prison time for its producer.
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What's prevented her from being a shoo-in for the top job is her role at the center of one of the federal government's most sickening and indefensible programs, a brutal interrogation regime that used torture against terrorism suspects after the Sept.
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We may have reached an inflection point at which even partisans grow weary of the barrage of lies and the indefensible behavior, and Republican representatives finally realize that they are constitutional officers who must defend the country even if it damages their party.
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Media attention focuses on the most egregious examples of Trump's isolationism — his indefensible Muslim travel ban tops the list, next to gut-wrenching acts like blocking visas for Iraqis who assisted our troops and even saved American lives during the Iraq War.
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If one thinks, à la Paul Krugman, that "facts have a well-known liberal bias," and presumes it a foregone conclusion that conservative proposals are frequently indefensible, then we suppose one might conclude that the mainstream media's tilt represents responsible news coverage.
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"When you are in the business of distributing content, unless you have an indefensible claim against you, you don't let issues and protests get in the way," said Blair Westlake, a media strategist and a former media executive at Universal Studios and Microsoft.
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Louis C.K. has been at the top of the comedy scene for nearly a decade, bridging the gap between observational club stand-up and experimental alternative comedy by approaching routine topics from a novel angle, attacking hypocrisies and trying to defend the indefensible.
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During the Cold War, foreign policy realists lauded America's morally indefensible alliances with regimes in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that fostered Islamic extremism at home and exported it abroad as a necessity in the struggle with Communism, especially during the Soviet-Afghan War.
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Since so many of the innovations that have had the effect of actually improving things have come from nonlawyers, the legal establishment's continued protection of the status quo — all justified under the spurious guise of "consumer protection" — is all the more indefensible.
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An unpalatable and indefensible initiative that cannot end well," by David Horowitz in Front Page Magazine: "It's a massive power grab by the beef lobby, which would prefer to cull wild horses and burros so public lands can be devoted to livestock-grazing.
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"Inmate sterilization is despicable, it is morally indefensible, and it is illegal," said Daniel Horwitz, a Nashville attorney who represented inmates pro-bono in their lawsuit against White County General Sessions Judge Sam Benningfield and former county sheriff Oddie Shoupe, in a statement.
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She defends the president's most indefensible statements — like claiming that he was "joking" when he seemed to encourage police brutality — scolds reporters for doing their job (that would be standing up to the powerful), and keeps briefings short, infrequent, and almost devoid of useful information.
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Say whatever you want about his music—different strokes for different folks—but I think we can all agree that subjecting the nation to a primetime game in the first week of the season between the Lions and the New York Jets is indefensible.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller seems determined to press forward with some version of the Spanish Inquisition – an increasingly indefensible, apparently groundless, objectively debilitating inquiry into what was initially one question: Did the Trump campaign knowingly coordinate with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election?
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"It is indefensible that when these young children arrive in our country, they are forced in settings that increase disease transmission and that the stress and anxiety they have experienced in their journey will likely exacerbate any illness or mental health condition," their letter reads.
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These folks I just met with don't have any choice about whether to be in Iraq and Afghanistan and do what the president orders them to do, and it is absolutely indefensible if they are not fully supported in what they are ordered to do.
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Trump's comments at a press availability at Trump Tower on Tuesday not only revealed, again, his remarkable blindness to the racial history and realities of this country, but also showed his willingness to stake out morally indefensible positions as the result of personal pique.
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I wrote then in The Hill: In my judgment, it would be tragic if the indefensible behavior suggested by McCain (who should know better) and Cruz provokes a new Democratic majority to rewire the Senate rules to overcome a Republican wall of partisan intransigence.
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But I do not believe that Hillary Clinton is a criminal in the Nixonian sense, or anything close to it; or Bill Clinton, though their ethical blindness to the conflicts of interest involving the Clinton Foundation and her being secretary of state are indefensible.
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" The future The Annals of Internal Medicine article criticized Mylan for a "blatant attempt to twist the notion of prevention to get first-dollar coverage, specifically to deflect legitimate concerns about the dramatic and as of now indefensible increase in the cost of the device.
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HOUSTON — Listening to President Trump try to explain away his indefensible policy on family separations the other week — and his latest attempts to get an immigration bill passed ASAP — I couldn't stop thinking about Cynthia, whom I have known for most of her 35 years.
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Sunday, Roethlisberger answered by throwing two of his three touchdown passes to Brown and the first of those scores, a perfectly timed, indefensible corner route and quick pass that resulted in a 9-yard touchdown, was as exquisite as the bomb down the sideline.
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The unpredictability is compounded by the president's unprecedented obfuscation and denial of facts, and by offensive off-the-cuff comments like those he reportedly made last week in a White House meeting, all of which can leave his staff scrambling to defend the seemingly indefensible.
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"It's indefensible to not appreciate the role and responsibility that there is to make sure the government runs smoothly," said A. Ashley Tabaddor, a federal immigration judge in Los Angeles and president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, who is currently on furlough.
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Donald Trump once again, in suggesting that there was equivalency between those spewing hatred, bigotry and intolerance and those who marched to condemn that behavior, used his bully pulpit to signal to the indefensible that they have a powerful champion in the White House.
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They support Mr. Trump's lies; they viciously attack their colleagues on the other side of the aisle; they repeat over and over again their own lies; they say everything they can dream up to defend the indefensible and to weaken this incredible Constitution of ours.
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But that is what Republicans are courting by blindly defending Trump's indefensible enlistment of Ukraine's help to take down Biden and by echoing Trump's conspiracy theory — originated by Russian agents — that it was Ukraine that hacked the Democratic National Committee's emails in 2016, not Russia.
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Louis C.K. has been at the top of the stand-up comedy scene for nearly a decade, bridging the gap between observational club stand-up and experimental alternative comedy by approaching routine topics from a novel angle, attacking hypocrisies and attempting to defend the indefensible.
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As such, those who deflect toward Clinton to defend his latest indefensible comments seemingly would not hold Trump to account even if he were to reveal that he is the Anti-Christ or that the mark of the beast is carved into his skull.
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" Eric Lott, an expert on blackface minstrelsy and a cultural historian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who is white, called the practice "indefensible," given its roots in dehumanizing attitudes "rooted in the traffic in black bodies and slavery.
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Though many of the rules are nearly identical to those Republicans adopted in 1998 when they impeached President Bill Clinton, party leaders insisted that supporting the resolution amounted to legitimizing what they view as an indefensible three-year campaign to undo the results of the 2016 election.
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This game, even with its silly God talk, came as a bit of a relief after Saturday night's A.F.C. playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals, which served, with its impressive stupidity and violent gratuitous hits, to demonstrate why football is so often indefensible.
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The backdrop: Gore— who was in Atlanta on Friday to meet with climate change activists and expressed his support of the Green New Deal — besmirched Trump in his 2017 documentary: "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," and called the president's abandonment of the Paris climate agreement "indefensible."
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The Conservative government says the deterrent is vital to keep Britain safe in an increasingly hostile world, but some leading opposition figures say it is indefensible to commit a significant portion of the public purse to renewing the program at a time of deep austerity cuts.
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His spirited TV defenses of Trump's indefensible behavior drew him comparisons to "Baghdad Bob" (Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf), Saddam Hussein's chief propagandist during the early months of the Iraq war, whose dubious predictions of imminent victory despite growing devastation all around made him an international laughingstock.
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He said Mr. Trump had not "appropriately spoken to the nation" about Charlottesville, Va. Mr. Scott, of South Carolina, insisted that he would not "defend the indefensible" when it came to the president's comments about "both sides" in Charlottesville being responsible for the violence last Saturday.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE has made repeated indefensible, harassing and unlawful attacks against numerous whistleblowers.
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The hardest, and likely most intractable, problem is to recognize the validity of claims — claims for recognition of hardship, claims for redistribution of benefits and burdens — when they have been cloaked in language that we rightly regard as indefensible: racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, classist, or ableist.
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"Whether that's the 'no ban, no wall, no raids' protests, or going to the town hall meetings of Congress members who have what I would argue is an indefensible position on health care, education and so much else that's being contested at this moment in time," she said.
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It is wrong, indefensible and unacceptable that the president I fervently supported in 2008 and 2012 gives lavishly paid speeches to big banks with the fierce urgency of now, but refuses to join the epic battle for the future of America until he decides the time is right.
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"The Trump administration's persistent and indefensible denial of climate change — and their continued assault on actions essential to stemming its increasing devastation — is reprehensible, and I will use every available legal tool to fight their dangerous agenda," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement on Monday.
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As if that were not bad enough, Republican members of Congress are retiring left and right, partly to avoid what will undoubtedly become a ruthless campaign season, but also because they are fed up with defending the indefensible and being hung out to dry by a chaotic White House.
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Let's not forget his security detail's indefensible (and illegal) attack against protesters demonstrating in front of the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, DC. Second, President Trump likely doesn't care what Turkey thinks anyway, just as he doesn't care how other countries react to his other foreign policy decisions.
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Republicans who have wives, daughters, granddaughters — or who are women themselves — have stood idly by, finding every plausible explanation to excuse and defend the reprehensible, inexcusable and indefensible sexist remarks and actions of a man who is unfit to be president and undeserving to represent the Republican Party.
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US-POPE-JAPAN/ Pope urges abolition of nuclear weapons at Nagasaki ground zero NAGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Pope Francis, speaking in one of only two cities hit by atomic bombs in history, appealed on Sunday for the abolition of nuclear weapons, saying their mere possession was perverse and indefensible.
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"Now that a majority of states have legalized cannabis for medical use, it is indefensible to restrict veterans' ability to access medical cannabis through their VA providers while members of Congress can use their federally subsidized health insurance to obtain medical cannabis recommendations from their doctors," Murphy said.
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Those who disapprove of boxing might well regard us as embarrassing holdovers in a supposedly more-evolved age of remote-control violence, but morally indefensible blood sport can still teach you something meaningful about being human — and, anyway, what competing agonistic spectacles qualify as morally superior these days?
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"I have every confidence that this unfounded and reckless lawsuit will be revealed for what it is – another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others," Crump said in a statement on Wednesday in conjunction with Martin's family.
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But the argument that the Price-Anderson liability limit is a "subsidy" is simply incorrect; it has become an obvious tool with which to divert attention from the indefensible subsidies and cronyism now bestowed upon "renewable" electricity, ethanol mandates and the other such manifestations of wealth redistribution through politics.
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Whatever the ironies of his comments, considering this administration's position in the travel ban litigation on the wide sweep of the president's power to set immigration policy, the attorney general could not have stated more forcefully his belief that DACA is a legally indefensible violation of constitutional separation-of-powers doctrine.
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"The use of insecure, indefensible and unpatchable systems on top of the fact that they're connected to way too many other things without proper segmentation and isolation, and that there's no one there to secure them even if they could — they come together in a really dangerous way," Corman said.
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He remanded the case to the immigration judge for further proceedings consistent with this opinion, reiterating that an applicant for asylum on account of membership in a particular social group must demonstrate: The Board decisions applying asylum to domestic abuse victims may be morally correct, but they are legally indefensible.
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Here's what we know for sure: Donald Trump's secretive 17-day vacation won't end until next Tuesday, but in less than two weeks out of the White House, he's managed to roil the nation on race and destroy bushels of political capital with a series of bizarre and indefensible statements.
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Time and again, even the most serious and respected people in the Trump administration — people who were looked to as good influences on the ignorant and impulsive president, or, in a worst-case scenario, as canaries in the coal mine — have ended up going out to defend Trump over something indefensible.
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And guess what, it was an act of economic malpractice when the fed raised rates in December, it was indefensible, the stock market crashed in anticipation and when that happened and by the way, when the Fed put its tail between its legs – I mean, let's be very clear about the chronology here.
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Earlier this month, after the release a 2005 video tape in which Mr Trump boasts crudely of groping women, Catholic Vote, a conservative group that campaigns against abortion among other issues, said in a statement that Mr Trump's comments were "disgusting and simply indefensible … Catholics should not waste their breath defending them".
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It reveals a stubborn defiance of civilized norms about permissability of torture, and builds upon the indefensible secrecy that still surrounds the program But perhaps Haspel's nomination will provided the country with the opposite of what Trump intended — a chance to examine in detail, and unequivocally condemn, the policies of the past.
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" Al Gore, who appears in both An Inconvenient Sequel and An Inconvenient Truth and has been a vocal advocate of climate change action for decades, called Trump's decision "reckless and indefensible," adding that it "undermines America's standing in the world and threatens to damage humanity's ability to solve the climate crisis in time.
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Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, said in an interview with Vice News that he would not "defend the indefensible" after Trump said Tuesday that both the "alt-left" and white supremacists were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville — a day after he had condemned neo-Nazis and the KKK.
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And yet it would be no less ridiculous (not to mention morally indefensible, and unconstitutional) to enforce, whether legally or through the court of public opinion, a system by which those of faith, or "too much" of the wrong kind of faith, are barred from public life, as Sanders seemed to imply.
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They reach for the more appealing offerings, such as the Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, and avert their gaze from less appetizing or, to some, downright indefensible elements (America is not so different from Vladimir V. Putin's Russia), which would have surely drawn relentless rebukes if uttered by President Barack Obama.
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" The Wall Street Journal editorial board, on Trump's use of the word "lynching" to describe the process: "The President keeps asking friends to defend the indefensible … The more he forces Republicans to defend words or actions that don't deserve defending, the more their resentment will build and the more political trouble he will be in.
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CNN fired Lord, saying "Nazi salutes are indefensible" and giving the world a brief respite from his skull-melting drudgery, at least for the few hours before he pops up on Fox News or whatever other cable channel is willing to exchange money for him to again gnash his teeth in front of a camera.
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"I've never seen a candidate who knows fewer facts, but Donald Trump has said so many things that are inaccurate and indefensible, causing his running mate, who's a decent guy — I served with him in the Congress — to have to make up a whole hell of a lot of facts on the run," Biden said.
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But when Kelly stepped up to the national podium to try to vindicate and defend the indefensible with hypocritical statements full of sad irony, he not only did a huge disservice to Trump, he also sadly did a huge disservice to himself and to the nation he has loved and served all of his life.
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I think he didn't take monetary policy nearly seriously enough, that he's fallen short on combating HIV/AIDS and other public health scourges abroad, that his early push to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants was indefensible, and that perpetrators of torture and other war crimes from the Bush administration should have been criminally prosecuted.
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"I think this is indefensible, partisan legislation," said Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (Ore.), the top Democrat on the Finance Committee.
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After finalizing a clean spending package before the clock strikes midnight a week from Friday, and spending a little time with family and, perhaps, some of the people they were elected to represent in Washington, members of Congress should turn their attention to overhauling an immigration policy that becomes more indefensible by the day.
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But skeptics of the attacks — especially Nagasaki, whose destruction when Japan barely had time to surrender after Hiroshima feels especially indefensible — have long argued that the real purpose was to intimidate the Soviet Union, to engage in a massive show of force that would give the US an upper hand in the coming Cold War.
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It is hard to read this paragraph from Postman without feeling he is speaking specifically about us: When Orwell wrote in his famous essay "The Politics of the English Language" that politics has become a matter of "defending the indefensible," he was assuming that politics would remain a distinct, although corrupted, mode of discourse.
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Instead of running Joe Biden for president, a man whose own healthcare plan states it would keep 10 million people uninsured, you could run someone who supports Medicare for All and isn't afraid to defend it—who finds the notion that there could be that many Americans left vulnerable and bereft to be indefensible.
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In this bonsai-esque universe where molecules are even smaller than motion A girl prayed for a set of Lionel trains minus the trains— Just thumbnail shrubbery, tiny plastic people she could maneuver, Position in indefensible battle, infuse honey-honesty into their unprotesting Zipped lips, force them to love each other with their clothes on.
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Mia LoveLudmya (Mia) LoveFormer GOP lawmaker: Trump's tweets have to stop Congressional Women's Softball team releases roster The 31 Trump districts that will determine the next House majority MORE (R-Utah), who is of Haitian-American descent, said on CNN's "State of the Union" over the weekend that Trump's comments were "indefensible" and racist.
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Looking back on it now, the impeachment of Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonClinton still 'disappointed' Sanders held off on endorsing her in 6900 Booker notes 'anger' over more billionaires than black candidates in 2628 race Fox's Napolitano says obstruction 'easiest' impeachment offense for Democrats MORE in 28503 was even more stupid and even more indefensible.
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With CEOs speeding away from the president's orbit, tech companies scaling up efforts to ban white supremacists from their platforms, and the parents of identified Unite the Right attendees denouncing their own children for their indefensible actions, the true face of Trump support is no longer able to blend into a crowd of cowardly sympathizers and political apathetics.
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Sri Lanka's Decision to Censor Social Platforms Is Indefensible Trevor Timm calls on Sri Lanka to end its ban on social networks: Just one month ago, Stanford's Jan Rydzak released a working paper looking at India's attempts in 2016 to shut down portions of the internet, which was carried out with the state intention of stopping violence.
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Here's what McNair's parents had to say to USA TODAY: The attorney for the McNair family called the decision to retain Durkin "callous" and "indefensible" in a statement yesterday, adding: The decision to retain Durkin makes up yet another iteration in a hauntingly frequent pattern of universities turning a blind eye to abuses within their programs.
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But the story always had a lot of similarities: He denies all or almost all of the responsibility for his actions; he puts that responsibility on somebody else; and when it's looked at in the cold light of day, the story falls apart completely, leaving behind only the embarrassing and indefensible shell of the façade he created.
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After the initial spate of press coverage and an aborted Congressional inquiry, though, the story died out—even as it became clear that this indefensible operation was merely the tip of the iceberg, with the emails themselves, only barely examined thus far, serving as a potential window into a previously opaque congregation of state-corporate criminality.
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That is the thrill of it, the fun of it, the thing about college basketball that redeems the indefensible rest—the ambient economy of college basketball perfects itself and perfects itself, aims itself towards an ever more perfect placelessness and an efficiency that approaches entropy, and then every year it just does not happen that way.
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Op-Ed Contributor After President-elect Donald J. Trump insisted during the campaign that "torture works" and promised to bring back waterboarding and "a hell of a lot worse," it was just a matter of time before the former C.I.A. official Jose Rodriguez and the former Air Force psychologist and C.I.A. contractor James Mitchell resurfaced to defend the indefensible.
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What is happening in America when, for the sake of tribalism, people who should know better hurl these offensive, inflammatory verbal assaults -- all to stand in the good graces of President Trump, whose self-destructive and reckless conduct in Ukraine and Syria is simply indefensible, counter to American national security interests and in complete alignment with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin's policy goals?
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In the past 48 hours, as the press focused on Comeygate and the renewed discussion of Hillary Clinton's emails, Donald Trump reiterated one of the most consistent and abhorrent policy proposals in his policy-phobic campaign: to bring back waterboarding, the Bush-era torture technique that is both morally indefensible and scientifically proven to be ineffective and counterproductive in the fight against terrorism.
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During a news conference on poverty Tuesday in an African-American neighborhood in D.C., the Speaker lashed out at Trump's attacks on the judge as "indefensible" and the "textbook definition" of racism — a rebuke Ryan later told his GOP colleagues he hoped would put the controversy to rest and allow Republicans to pivot back to their election-year agenda project.
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Read more: A former classmate of Brett Kavanaugh reportedly tipped off the FBI and senators to another allegation of sexual misconductRonna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, doubled down on Trump's tweeting fury, as she wrote on Twitter that the story, because of Stier's refusal to speak with The Times, was "journalistically indefensible," even though it was corroborated.
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Frances, never having "fantasized about a radiant future where I was paid to perform an economic role," has decided that it's ethically indefensible to make more than sixteen thousand one hundred dollars a year—the amount that you would get, according to her Wikipedia reading, if you divided the annual gross world product by the number of people on earth.
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Some of the squeamishness she prompted can be attributed to male chauvinism and Tory patrician snobbery; Moore, a right-wing columnist for the Daily Telegraph and a former editor of The Spectator , likes to use this defense when Thatcher is at her most indefensible, soothingly reminding us of her role as the great disrupter of the old boys' club and its afternoon fug.
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He has been shown once again to possess indefensible views and an irredeemable character, and leaders like Speaker of the House Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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If you watched last night's game between the Cubs and Rockies, you probably think this is indefensible, and even though it's a hill that I am willing to die on, I see how once you get into the weeds of what is "necessary" or "not" in sports, you run the risk of sounding like someone who takes the whole thing a little too seriously.
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For example, Scott said he would not "defend the indefensible" when asked about Trump's comments in 2017 that there were fine people on "both sides" of the deadly confrontation between white nationalists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Va. He also has taken pains to vet, or in certain instances even block, Trump nominees for judgeships or cabinet positions over concerns regarding that person's views on race.
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Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren slammed supporters of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE who tried to defend Roseanne Barr in light of her "indefensible" racist remark earlier this week.
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Former Kansas State football player Corey Sutton, who earlier this year requested permission to contact 35 different schools—none of them in the Big 12 nor on the Wildcats' future schedule, not that either of those facts should really matter—and was denied by coach Bill Snyder, who subsequently defended his indefensible decision by publicly smearing Sutton as someone who had failed a pair of drug tests.
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The House is more pure, uncut MAGA, more reflexive in its defense of a president whose behavior is often indefensible, more poisoned by the worst Trumpist tendencies (witness the steady migration of the Iowa congressman Steve King toward an overt white nationalism) and more inclined to allow Trump a free hand should he seek to make his actual presidency exactly like his Twitter feed.
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As cataloged by the Israeli group Commanders for Israel's Security, annexation would cost billions of dollars annually, would create virtually indefensible borders because of the spider web of Israeli-governed territory within the larger West Bank that most supporters of this plan want to annex, provide ammunition to the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and destroy Israel's foreign relations with a host of countries.
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It is a politically delicate but increasingly common approach among independent-minded lawmakers like Mr. Amodei, who are working to balance their fear of inviting Mr. Trump's wrath — and that of the party base — with a deep anxiety that there is more to be revealed about the president, some of it potentially indefensible, and the knowledge that history will hold them accountable for their words and actions.
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In a remarkable rebuke of the presumptive nominee, Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) called the candidate's remarks about Judge Gonzalo Curiel "the textbook definition of racist comments" and described them as "indefensible," though he did not withdraw his support for Trump.
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" In an emailed statement made on behalf of himself and the parents of Martin — Sybrina Fulton, who is running for local office, and Tracy Martin — Crump said, "I have every confidence that this unfounded and reckless lawsuit will be revealed for what it is — another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others.
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It's the attempt to force Israel to do things it cannot do — namely, retreating to indefensible borders, relinquishing Judaism's most important sites, transferring more than half a million Jews out of the West Bank, and absorbing five million Palestinians claiming to be descendants of Arabs who lived in pre-1948 Palestine — all of which would lead to the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state, the basis of its foundation.
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"Attorney General Barr's regrettably partisan handling of the Mueller report, including his slanted March 24th summary letter, his irresponsible testimony before Congress last week, and his indefensible plan to spin the report in a press conference later this morning — hours before he allows the public or Congress to see it — have resulted in a crisis of confidence in his independence and impartiality," Pelosi and Schumer wrote in a statement.
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But these business-only efforts lead to indefensible conclusions — that the government can realize standard 4 percent to 85033 percent efficiency gains year over year based on efficiency gains in the private sector, with a promised $125 billion in savings over 5 years, for example, when the report acknowledges that only 17 percent of fundamental change projects deliver full potential even the private sector where the barriers to change are dramatically easier to overcome.
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I do think that his pivot eventually to what we saw in the CNBC interview was the thing that the administration ought to be doing, which is highlighting not just the sanctions, but the diplomatic expulsions, the lethal aid to Ukraine, and other elements that are much more robust of the policy as opposed to the rhetoric that we saw when the president was standing with Vladimir Putin, which was, again, I think indefensible.
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"Every policy that they have implemented has increased the backlog and part of that then has been to use the backlog for other indefensible policy reasons, so I think there's definitely an argument to be made that there is a an effort to implode the court to increase the backlog in order to justify what we've otherwise be measures or quote-unquote solutions that we would never consider," Tabbador told The Hill.
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NAMI is fighting for equity in mental health care, with policy recommendations that include calling for federal and state-level parity compliance market audits of health plans and improving the availability of mental health care through the following: The data is indefensible: the inequities for people seeking mental health care are real and when it comes to what we pay, the bottom line is the bill always comes due in one way or another.
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Today's electorate, by nominating Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, has accepted notions and policies once considered laughable and indefensible to include torture, the expulsion of millions from the country, watch lists for particular religions, and the dissolution of the world's most powerful alliance system, NATO.
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After last week's testimonies and revelations, Republicans are in a quagmire as to just how to defend the indefensible actions of a president who sought to withhold congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine unless that country's government initiated an investigation into Trump's main political rival, former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE, and his son, Hunter Biden.
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"The failure of people in the rich nations to make any significant sacrifices in order to assist people who are dying from poverty-related causes is ethically indefensible," he wrote in "Achieving the Best Outcome," a 2002 essay: It is not simply the absence of charity, let alone of moral saintliness: It is wrong, and one cannot claim to be a morally decent person unless one is doing far more than the typical comfortably-off person does.
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An hour-by-hour account of tweets, golf, nuclear saber-rattling, and an angry press conference on race An hour-by-hour account of tweets, golf, nuclear saber-rattling, and an angry press conference on race Donald Trump's secretive 17-day vacation won't end until next Tuesday, but in less than two weeks out of the White House, he's managed to roil the nation on race and destroy bushels of political capital with a series of bizarre and indefensible statements.
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In fact, it was only the beginning of a painful, almost daily ritual where Spicer would have to stand in front of the world's media and either defend the indefensible lies that would spew out of Trump's mouth that day — or roll off his twitter-happy fingers, more likely — or Spicer would invent untruths of his own in order to make his boss look good or to cover up for the myriad of inaccuracies in which the Donald Trump traffics on a daily basis.
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