The position that Newman held, in seeing higher education as unconnected with the search for new knowledge, is no longer tenable.

"That kind of position may not be tenable much longer, you know."

Realizing his position was no longer tenable, Campbell opened surrender negotiations the next day.

With Rossi, we reach the point at which the distinction between the modern and the traditional is no longer tenable.

But the range of present-day musical styles makes that explanation no longer tenable.

It was permitted until now, but that is no longer tenable.

This leads to all sorts of injustices that are no longer tenable.

This clearly needs to change because it is no longer tenable.

Yet I recently began to feel that ignorance was no longer tenable.

The present consensus is that such an identification is no longer tenable.