Sentence examples for an unthinkable default from inspiring English sources

Republican ideologues with no notion of the national interest do their brinkmanship number as the country hovers near an unthinkable default.

Many have said this is just a precaution; the default is an unthinkable event that will not happen.

How does one prepare for such an unthinkable event?

For months, politicians like Mr. Van Rompuy have been trying to convince a doubtful world that a Greek default is unthinkable.

It also sent the stock market tumbling — even though a debt-ceiling deal was eventually reached, the Dow fell almost fourteen per cent in less than a month during the crisis, in part because it made people realize that a U.S. default was no longer unthinkable.

The president this year has refused to negotiate with Congress over raising the debt ceiling, saying that a U.S. debt default should be unthinkable to either political party.

Some are seeing a revival unthinkable a few years ago.

A Greek debt restructuring — a polite term for default — is unthinkable, according to the Greek finance minister.

Indeed, the creation of a big bail-out fund was meant to make default unthinkable.

Moody's has warned that a US default is unlikely, but no longer unthinkable, and put America's credit rating on negative watch.

A default seems unthinkable for any of these countries, thus growth and austerity could be, at best, only part of any solution.There is another alternative for big economies that control their currencies.