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By mounting a legal challenge to the First Group's bid for the West Coast franchise, which he considered insupportably risky, Sir Richard Branson may have begun the unravelling of the whole franchising process.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012

Critics of the monarchy counter that the cost of the institution is insupportably high, entrenching traditions that favor the country's elite.

From Time • Apr. 29, 2011

However, the abundance of cases like Kenny's tells us that the number of lives like his that have been ruined may in fact be insupportably high.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2011

"If such work is not done," wrote Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "we will be stuck forever with this insupportably expensive, ethically puzzling halfway technology."

From Time Magazine Archive

In Fair and Warmer he provokes the most boisterous and at the same time the most innocent laughter with a scene which might have been made insupportably vulgar.

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl