nonstarter
Example Sentences
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Spending cuts are even more difficult than in Britain—where welfare cuts have proved to be a political nonstarter—and securing a budget at all in a deeply riven French Parliament is a challenge.
Such guarantees are a nonstarter, the studio alliance has said, instead suggesting an annual meeting on advances in the technology.
From New York Times
But the move puts pressure on Biden to keep Democrats united behind his position that negotiating over the debt ceiling is a nonstarter.
From Washington Post
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — To hear the photographer Judith Joy Ross tell it, her life and career are riddled with nonstarters.
From New York Times
Ahead of Xi’s visit to Moscow, Beijing outlined a 12-point proposal for peace in Ukraine that Washington and Kyiv have dismissed as a nonstarter.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
