The place was, in fact, becoming less and less tenable.

The immensity of the disaster unfolding to the east of Karamoja is less tenable here.

The so-called ethical objections are still less tenable.

We must add that it affords a locus standi, more or less tenable, for inferring more.

None, perhaps, was less tenable than that which made of this gentleman a personification of the Sun.

But it looks even less tenable when it would seemingly include the elected leader of Britain's capital city.

This covered position was forward of the Bradley, a less tenable position for a manned vehicle to occupy.

So here's the bad news: Razer's Onza TE will make covering up your ineptitude with hardware-based justifications even less tenable.

It further required that they reject some of the less tenable positions of certain popular denominations; even denominations to which some of them belonged.

Sometimes I think she means well, and is only ignorant and dull; but this hypothesis grows less and less tenable as I know her better.

Conservative MP Nicky Morgan told BBC that Ms May's position will become " less and less tenable" if she suffers more defeats in parliament this week.