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29 Sep 2022, 6:56 am
The government response was surprisingly muted with MP Mark Gerretsen simply asking for a couple of days to formulate a response, perhaps recognizing that defending Bittle would mean defending the indefensible. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 8:48 am
"Ohio has been in a dubious cycle of defending often indefensible conduct, subsequently reforming its protocol when called on that conduct, and then failing to follow through on its own reforms," Frost wrote in his scathing Jan. 11, 2012 ruling in favor of Lorraine. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 11:09 am
Until we do that, it seems to me that those who find U.S. targeting policy understandable and wise, and those who find it indefensible and immoral, will keep talking past each other altogether. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 5:20 am
Liberals who properly denounce the appointment of such presidential cronies as Nixon's campaign manager John Mitchell or the egregiously sycophantic Alberto Gonzales should recognize that perhaps the most truly indefensible appointment in the past half century was Robert Kennedy, whose sole qualification for the job was his status as the President's brother and the assurance that he would use the formidable powers of the Justice Department in ways that would never embarrass JFK. … [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 5:09 am
Maybe the company would even be sanctioned somehow -- for taking an indefensible position -- if it tried to fire the next guy situated like Jones, when the company already knew the result in Jones' case.In that next situation, you have an employee repeatedly fabricating test results and a company deciding not to fire him. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm
” Similarly, Representative Bobby Scott (D-Va.) reportedly claimed the current minimum wage is “economically and morally indefensible. [read post]
20 Aug 2021, 9:05 pm
It has been cited as a legal basis to support all sorts of indefensible positions. [read post]
12 Jul 2023, 5:09 am
The lower court decisions were indefensible. [read post]
10 Sep 2017, 12:23 pm
” So, in the end, it is about the money, and the NFL clearly has had sufficient funds to defend the indefensible for a quarter century now, so isn’t it time FEDEX and other NFL sponsors step up and get on the right side of this issue, with their money? [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 2:40 am
MORGAN, for purchasing vessels for the Government, saying it is of such a character, whether it be in the stipulated amount received or in the mode of payment, alike indefensible and reprehensible. [read post]
3 May 2022, 4:00 am
Are they not too busy, in any case, some might say, protecting crooked billionaires and defending the indefensible, while moaning about all their woes and making their constant demands for even greater profits while wanting to do less work? [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 7:14 pm
Iyer first argues that the current view about the EC being the first among equals - as set out in the governing Supreme Court ruling in the Seshan case - is indefensible from a textualist perspective: That the CEC is only one among equals is a questionable view on at least two grounds. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 4:49 pm
Taking away people’s rights in the name of liberty (or rather a very particular conception of it) has a distinctly Orwellian ring to it, which reminds one of his remark in his famous 1946 essay ‘Politics and the English Language’ that: “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible … Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 7:42 am
He approved paying out $160 million to defend the indefensible and then kept it a closely guarded secret until Congress forced him to disclose the amounts? [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 4:00 am
No side should be able to implement strategies that use financial strength to defeat legally indefensible obligations. [read post]
4 Jul 2008, 5:18 pm
I personally believe that Judge Posner has written the best defense of what I regard as an indefensible decision, and there is certainly a "politics" to his defense, based on the perception, justified or not, that the country was on the brink of instability and that the Court's intervention, though legally dubiousâ€â [read post]
5 Sep 2008, 1:00 pm
Mark Mahowald, Director of The Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center and past President of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, states that it is absolutely indefensible that Federal Highway Safety officials do not have commercial truck and bus drivers screened for sleep disorders. [read post]
18 May 2008, 6:57 am
I also defended the possibly indefensible, by writing about retired judge Gerald Butler QC’s brutal attack on Cherie Blair qua Cherie Booth QC when he stated, in the very best tradition of Kenny Everett’s ‘Angry of Mayfair” character, that “It is altogether disgraceful but nothing less than I would expect from her. [read post]
18 Aug 2023, 5:55 am
If the United States is able to achieve these levels of transparency when it comes to military aid to Ukraine, a country in the midst of an active armed conflict, obscuring security cooperation information for other partners on the basis of national security seems an increasingly indefensible position. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 4:32 pm
The innocent and popular local press is being used by its guilty and unpopular national big brothers to defend the indefensible – as a “human shield” against proper regulation. [read post]
