They demolished buildings, they tore up the ground, they cut the levee and let in water, and they killed and mangled men; but they did not render the forts untenable nor silence their guns.
In 1916, they were determined to hold it at all costs, knowing by experience that the town would soon be untenable with French artillery posted there.
The thirty-four volumes octavo render this opinion untenable by those who can read.
The positions, too, once hailed with such acclaim, so eagerly recognised as the true refuges for poor mortals anxious to avoid being run over by fast-driving logicians, how untenable do they soon appear!
This false and utterly untenable adage is the cause of the chaotic anarchy in our art-world.
Even Plato indulged in the untenable proposition that art was mere mimicry, and therefore a falsehood, and detrimental to virtue; as truth ought to be the only aim of humanity.
Now this belief that geologic "systems" are universal, is quite as untenable as the other.
While these anomalies render untenable the position that the relative specific gravities of the planets are direct indications of nebular condensation; it by no means follows that they negative it.
But deny that music has this origin, and the only alternative is the untenable position that the vibrations proceeding from a vocalist's throat are, objectively considered, of a higher order than those from a horn or a violin.
This Neptunist hypothesis, mark, borne out though it seemed to be by the most conspicuous surrounding facts, was quite untenable if analyzed.
An advance is possible only after the opposing trenches have been madeuntenable by the concentration of artillery fire.
Aristotle does not controvert this theory so far as regards accidental propositions; but he maintains that it is untenable about essential propositions, and that the theorists overlooked this distinction.
But I have already pointed out that this description of apparent probabilia, if considered as applying to fallacious reasoning generally, is both untenable in itself, and contradicted by Aristotle himself elsewhere.
Once thus on the downgrade of dualistic teleology, Kant afterwards arrived at his untenable metaphysical views of "God, Freedom, and Immortality.
In so far as that belief involves the notion of a "personal God," it has been rendered quite untenableby the recent advances of monistic science.
Luckier were the chasers engaged at Durazzo, during the British and Italian bombardment, when this important Albanian harbour was rendered untenable as an enemy base.
But this explanation is at once shown to be untenable when the smaller and the larger sacs are proved to be spores or sporangia.
Seeing his critical and untenable position, he ordered the Lieutenant, who was standing near him, to report his condition to General Kershaw and ask for instruction.
Colonel James was twice admonished by his second in command of his untenable position, and that death or surrender was inevitable if he persisted in holding his ground, but without avail.
His only object was to save the king and his own family (living with his aged mother, whom he loved with excessive filial tenderness), by inducing them to leave the untenable city.
They were ultimately driven out of the province, and the cities were, almost without exception, evacuated, although the besiegers had been severely repulsed, being rendered untenable by the severance of their lines of supply and communication.
As the city was rendered untenable by the loss of Soo-chow and other places, the Chung-wang decided to evacuate it and retire upon Chang-chow-foo.
Koran, as well as from the Sonnah, or the traditions from the Prophet, however absurd and untenablemay be their process of reasoning and argumentative deductions.
The untenabletheories of the Common Law and conclusion.
Further, no intelligent theist argues "that the atheistic hypothesis is untenable because it involves the impossible idea of self-existence.
Whoever agrees that the atheistic hypothesis is untenable because it involves the impossible idea of self-existence, must perforce admit that the theistic hypothesis is untenable if it contains the same impossible idea.
It is just these intermediate steps between the two kinds of reproduction that make quite untenable the idea that the heterogeneous forms in cyclical propagation arise through so-called “heterogeneous generation,” i.
In the third sentence Kant uses the quite untenable phrase "given through a single object (Gegenstand).
But his method of so doing still ultimately consists in an appeal to the results of the metaphysical deduction, and therefore rests upon his untenable belief in the adequacy of formal logic.
But this, Kant replies, is obviously anuntenable view.
It can only be explained as due to his recognition of the completely untenable character of the teaching to which it had given expression.
That contention proves untenable even within the domain of his purely logical analyses.
Equally untenableis the view taken by the historian De Thou (liv.
Beza had only reiterated the offer, made a thousand times by his fellow-reformers, to surrender at once his religious position should it be rendered untenable by means of proofs drawn from the Scriptures.
From this confusion of ideas, it might seem as if theoretical astronomy had got into an untenable position which is irreconcilable with science and ought therefore to endeavour to enter upon a better state, as soon as possible.
To satisfy the conditions of John it is necessary to adopt the untenable hypothesis of 12 A.
If it achieved the success that was hoped, it would roll up the German line north towards the Belgian coast and render untenable in the south and east the great salient of the German front.
But it had left us with an untenable front, and on 4-7 December Haig withdrew from Bourlon and Marcoing to the Flesquières ridge.
Both had the misfortune to hold untenable positions.
Meanwhile all detachments were marching rapidly to Atlanta with orders to break up the railroad en route and "generally to so damage the country as to make it untenable to the enemy.
