And that is simply indefensible as a proposition.
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Since DOMA has been declared unconstitutional and the Justice Department has declared it indefensible, there is a reasonable basis for that position.
But transaction fees, a 1-2% cut managers charged merely for consummating a deal, look indefensible now.
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That never came to pass, partly because Nye was unable to distinguish his opposition to arms profiteering from his advocacy of isolationism, a position that had become indefensible.
"There is that madness-genius gene in him because as a player he's exceptional, with people talking about him being player of the year, but what he did today, is indefensible, " said Redknapp, also a Sky analyst.
Ms Lagarde has played a central role in forming the euro zone's response to its debt crisis, and whatever her private views, she has a public record of defending the indefensible.
Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said blacklisting as a practice was "thoroughly objectionable and indefensible", while the health and safety issues in the construction sector were extremely important.
One of them is that our troops should never, ever, be put in a position where they have to defend the indefensible.
There's an echo of "Network's" Howard Beale in the character of Arthur Edens (the reliably excellent Tom Wilkinson), a "killer litigator" who cracks up in the midst of a major case: the defense of an ethically indefensible agrochemical company that's been poisoning its customers.
He defended the indefensible after the Rabois incident, in part, because it was a case of one against all.
So we can't go back to those indefensible lines, and we're going to have to have a long-term military presence along the Jordan.
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One mooted scheme, to use Long Term Credit Bank as the rump of the new institution, is just absurd: to entrust new lending to a bank that has already squandered so much would be indefensible.
It seemed especially indefensible last year when it was reported that Augusta had yet to offer a membership to a new IBM CEO Virginia Rometty, despite a tradition of admitting male CEOs of the longtime Masters sponsor.
In short compass, calls that ranged from merely bad to utterly indefensible cost the Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, respectively, a possibility of winning, a strong likelihood of winning and a game that was actually won.
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If this policy is crude mercantilism, or a way to bolster the weak economic record so far of Prime Minister Abe, it is indefensible.
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