Because defending benefits that trap people in poverty and penalise work is defending the indefensible.
By joining together to oppose Lords reform, they preserved the indefensible for three decades.
If the proposition passes, California would need to spend years and millions of taxpayer dollars defending the indefensible.
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He defended the indefensible after the Rabois incident, in part, because it was a case of one against all.
Why on earth did the ADL feel it necessary to defend the indefensible?
One of them is that our troops should never, ever, be put in a position where they have to defend the indefensible.
As the EU's chief negotiator, he has often defended the indefensible.
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.
There are a significant number of Labour AMs who have little chance of - or interest in - ministerial preferment and every intention of ensuring that they're not cast in the position of defending what they would see as the indefensible for their local hospital.
The existing age discrimination is indefensible and we hope the government will now recognise this.
"This aggressive use of power by the SEIU is indefensible, " wrote Justice Samuel Alito.
The taxpayers of Pennsylvania are now eating the cost of defending at least two men whose actions seem, at least on the surface, indefensible.
In a statement to the Commons on the nationwide walk-out on 30 November 2011, Mr Maude described the strikes as "indefensible", "unjustifiable" and "irresponsible".
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 Mr Tanzi's allegations are true, his position at the helm of Capitalia looks 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.
White House officials worried the tape may undo the contrite image Clinton carefully built over the past two weeks with frequent public apologies about his "indefensible" and "wrong" relationship with the former White House intern.
Answer: only when it is utterly indefensible to not sell the stock.
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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.
He has taken the view that I find absolutely indefensible, that he doesn't have to bring any such agreement about permanent bases, about ongoing occupation.
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"The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable, " DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, also calling it a distraction.
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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.
Mr Dorey said he appreciated parking charges would concern retailers but the logic of something for nothing was indefensible.
For those indefensible comments, and perhaps the failed apology, and for reasons I think are sound business principles, Walt Disney-owned ESPN removed his song from its program.
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Given access to information in the Internet age, low price is an indefensible strategy.
Seamus Hegarty and Ken Good said the most recent attack was "immoral and indefensible".
Then the NIMBY and Flat Earthers join in with indefensible numbers about Coal, Hydro, or Nuclear costs.
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However indefensible hereditary peers may be, the Lords will need further reform if it is to do its job without them.
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