Gammage pointed to an incident on Tuesday, when a local fire brigade managed to steer a bushfire around their community, despite being told their town was "undefendable," according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Ms. Merkel first defended the European Union practice of trying to turn back or intercept migrants "when it was undefendable, and gave it up when it didn't suit the Germans any longer," Mr. Techau noted.
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Defending the Undefendable is a 1976 book by American economist Walter Block.Walter Block, Defending the Undefendable book reprint, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008 version. It has been translated into ten foreign languages.Walter Block faculty page , Loyola University New Orleans, accessed July 31, 2013.
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The Libertarian Forum published several early incarnations of essays that would later be included as chapters in Walter Block's Defending the Undefendable.
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Ellis was a lifelong advocate for peace and an opponent of militarism. He also praised libertarian economist Walter Block's book, Defending the Undefendable.
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Block has written two dozen books.Walter Block curriculum vitae on Walterblock.com, p. 1. He is best known for his 1976 book Defending the Undefendable.
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Arabtec Holding shareholders authorised the board to file for liquidation due to its undefendable financial position following the bad economic condition due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Yoshisada was forced back to Kyoto which was quickly abandoned as undefendable and Go-Daigo retreated to the religious sanctuary of Mount Hiei, which he had previously refused to do. The unimpeded force of Ashikaga clan entered Kyoto and enthroned Emperor Kōmyō, beginning the Northern Court-Southern Court rivalry of the Nanboku-chō period as Go-Daigo fled Kyoto to Yoshino.
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Authorities consequently forced most of the refugees who had fled to Camerron to return to Nigeria. On 23 January, the Cameroonian military retreated from Rann, whereupon the Nigerian soldiers also withdrew, as they considered the town undefendable without Cameroonian help. About 35,000 residents of Rann promptly fled, believing that Boko Haram would surely return with the government troops gone. Most relocated to Goura in Cameroon, and this time the authorities allowed them to stay.
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Weymouth, although protected by earthworks and ditches, was generally undefendable against any serious effort to take it. The harbour was well-protected by Sandsfoot Castle, but the town itself had little in the way of serious fortifications. The town had previously been taken by the Royalists in August 1643, before being forced to surrender by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex in 1644. William Sydenham was appointed governor, and took his Regiment of Foot to garrison the town.
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Royal Savage, however, ran aground on the southwest point of Valcour Island around 11 am when attempting to return to the American line, and, undefendable, was abandoned. Despite attempts to reboard her, she was taken by a British boarding party which turned her guns against the American fleet. They too, however, soon found themselves under considerable fire and had to abandon Royal Savage. The British didn't want to give the Americans an opportunity to retake Royal Savage so they set fire to her sometime after dark.
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After war with Spain had broken out following the explosion of in Havana, Cuba, Dewey proceeded to the Philippines and arrived at Subic Bay just before sunset on 30 April 1898. However, Spanish naval authorities had determined that their position there was undefendable and had moved the fleet to Manila Bay. Under cover of darkness, Dewey proceeded to Manila Bay, arriving just off Corregidor after 11 . The ships stealthily moved past the south side of the island fortress, through Boca Grande, and into Manila Bay.
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Walter Edward Block (born August 21, 1941) is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He currently holds the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the J. A. Butt School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans, and is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. He is best known for his 1976 book Defending the Undefendable, which takes contrarian positions in defending acts which are illegal or disreputable but Block argues are actually victimless crimes or benefit the public.
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On 8 December 1941 – less than eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor – Japanese forces launched an invasion into Hong Kong, then a British Crown colony. The invasion started a lesser-known chapter of World War II when Allied forces – mainly British, Indian and Canadian – began the futile defence of British Hong Kong. Records now show that the territory had been deemed militarily undefendable by the War Office. Even so, the garrison was ordered to put up a robust resistance and six infantry battalions were tasked with the defence of Hong Kong.
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Within a day, the Dutch position became undefendable. Nevertheless, Dutch forces inflicted high losses on German transportation aircraft. Moreover, 1200 German elite troops from the Luftlandekorps taken prisoner around The Hague, were shipped to England just before the capitulation of the Dutch armed forces.Dr L. de Jong, 'Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog', (Dutch language) part 3, RIOD, Amsterdam, 1969Brongers, Lieutenant colonel ret. E.H., De Nederlandse Cavalerie in de Meidagen van 1940. Publisher: Stichting Museum Nederlandse Cavalerie, Amersfoort, 1998. Portengen, Jan, Herleefd verleden: Strijd om Valkenburg ZH in mei 1940. Academic Publishers Eburon, Delft. 1995.
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He said this belief in 'free speech' was legally undefendable and in this case very likely abused to serve a wish to discredit a certain minority in society. Defending justice minister Hirsch Ballin he said the government was held to protect 'the good standing and rights' of this minority. NRC Handelsblad the same day, in a twist, had one of its illustrators comment in words instead of pictures, actually writing that life for Dutch cartoonists was made too easy in a world with absolute freedom of speech. Also he believed they used too many words in their cartoons and should concentrate on the drawing, being less explicit.
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Augustine, a Manichaean at that time, questioned Manichaean teachers in Carthage to find answers, but repeatedly was told that Faustus would have them. Once Faustus made himself available, Augustine was extremely impressed with his rhetorical abilities and discipline, but soon learned he did not have the answers to his questions and realized that he was wise enough to not entertain questions for which he had no sound answer or which might force him to argue an undefendable or foolish position. Augustine determined the Manichaean stories unsubstantiated and his questions unanswerable by the Manichaeans, specially Faustus, its most celebrated proponent.Augustine of Hippo, ConfessionsPaul S. MacDonald, History of the Concept of Mind (2007), p. 146.
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The book generated much controversy and debate about the merits of string theory, and was criticised by some prominent physicists including Sean CarrollCarroll, Sean M. "The Trouble With Physics" (review), Discover blog (October 3, 2006) and string theorists Joseph Polchinski and Luboš Motl. Polchinski's review states, "In the end, these [Smolin and others'] books fail to capture much of the spirit and logic of string theory." Motl's review goes on to say "the concentration of irrational statements and anti-scientific sentiments has exceeded my expectations," and, > In the context of string theory, he literally floods the pages of his book > with undefendable speculations about some basic results of string theory. > Because these statements are of mathematical nature, we are sure that Lee is > wrong even in the absence of any experiments.
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Khan's policy made the assumption that an open conflict with India would not last long due to international pressure, and that since East Pakistan was undefendable, the war-effort should be concentrated on occupying as large an area of Indian territory as possible as a bargaining tool at the negotiating table. To this end, Gen Tikka Khan had proposed an offensive into India, and the PAF's "overriding priority was to give maximum support to this offensive". The initial plans for the offensive called for at least a temporary cover of air dominance by the PAF under which Khan's troops could conduct a lightning campaign deep into Western India before digging in and consolidating their positions. To support Khan's troops, the PAF had launched pre-emptive strikes on the evening of 3 December that led to the formal commencement of hostilities.
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The 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom report on Britain's defences believed that London was practically undefendable; they proposed a fort at Shooters Hill to defend the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, but it was never acted upon. Following a number of proposals by senior military figures, an 1888 memorandum written by Colonel John Charles Ardagh envisaged a scheme of simple earthworks for infantry and moveable armaments, intended to be dug and manned in an emergency by the Volunteer Force, the line being supported by permanent works, the London Mobilisation Centres, at 5 mile (8 km) intervals, which acted as stores and magazines. The London Defence Scheme was announced in Parliament in March 1889 by the Secretary of State for War, Edward Stanhope, by which time the 13 sites for the Mobilisation Centres had already been purchased at a cost of £25,000.
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