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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell
Time
Writing
Political
Defense
Our
Indefensible
Our Time
Political Speech
Largely
Speech
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Diane Abbott
You
Say
Indefensible
Hypocritical
Sounds
Self-Serving
Anything
Defend
If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
Morrissey
Animal
Dog
Protection
Seen
Animals
Cruelty
Nation
Caring
Indefensible
Alive
Worst
Possibly
Favour
Horrific
Laws
Results
Could
Argue
Cat
Footage
Abuse
Trade
Anyone
China
Chinese
Then
Planet
Skinned
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca West
God
Book
Practice
Indefensible
Forbid
Any
Banned
Should
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
Jello Biafra
Good
Women
People
Islam
Other
Indefensible
Respecting
Draw
Some
Well
Line
Cultures
Branches
Where
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.
Clint Smith
Death
Crime
Doubt
Indefensible
Penalty
Easy
About
Morally
Support
Principles
Death Penalty
Person
Sitting
Accused
Sustain
Chair
Harder
Sacrifice is putting country before party and principles before politics. It is not defending the indefensible, protecting the powerful, or staying silent in the face of injustice just because you’d like to keep your job.
S.E. Cupp
Politics
Injustice
Job
Face
Sacrifice
Country
Party
Before
Indefensible
Silent
Staying
Putting
Powerful
Like
Protecting
Principles
Because
Just
Just Because
Your
Keep
Defending
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
Kevin Eubanks
Time
Man
Black
Just Be
Nothing
Defense
Spend
Indefensible
Something
Himself
Because
Just
So Much Time
Much
Hard
Defend
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
Clive Owen
Journalist
Stupid
Every
Too
Indefensible
Morally
He
Himself
Knows
Does
Going
Notice
Full
Who
It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
Bill Flores
Government
Tired
Obligations
Legal
People
Meet
Our
Say
Indefensible
Exactly
Exactly What
Wrong
Failing
Track
Been
His
Accountable
American
Commissioner
IRS
American People
Held
They Say
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
William Hague
Will
Minority
Back
Indefensible
Those
Syrian
Find
More
Isolated
Regime
Themselves
Who
Even
Now
It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Service
Great
Disappointment
Behavior
Congress
Indefensible
He
Untenable
Call
Continue
Representative
Resign
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
Tibor Fischer
Think
Films
Despair
Indefensible
Hungarian
More
Duration