Such disjunctures between the economic distributions of power and the military distributions of power are simply untenable over the longer term.

Mr. McCain's aides say it is simply untenable for the White House to expect Mr. McCain to stop being a high-profile legislator.

On compensation, the existing scheme is simply untenable.

Prof Martha Himmelfarb finds Elior's work "simply untenable".

As Mr. von Lohmann and the Electronic Frontier Foundation see it, the injunction is simply untenable.

The option of maintaining the hospitals for any significant strategic period was simply untenable.

Giving up an entire row of prime beachfront homes is simply untenable to Mayor Marcia Smerican of Solana Beach and many of her beachfront constituents.

"Claiming not to know is simply untenable," he said in a radio interview, adding that it was Mr. Barak's responsibility to supervise his campaign.

Justice Stewart later recanted this view in Miller v. California, in which he accepted that his prior view was simply untenable.

The current impasse in which the legislation on driftnets finds itself is simply untenable.