Sentence examples for made unpalatable from inspiring English sources

Professor Wilkinson has admitted that an idea he hoped would escape the "leftwing ghetto" to transcend party politics and make Britain a happier, less-divided, more sociable, healthier and safer place has been made unpalatable for Conservatives by "wreckers" from the right.

Pieces of mealworms, untreated and palatable or made unpalatable by soaking in quinine were used as reinforcers.

Former Lib Dem defence minister Sir Nick Harvey said the government had made "unpalatable" decisions such as axing the Harrier jump jet during a "quick and dirty" review of defence spending, in the understanding "sunny uplands" and increased budgets would follow.

Making unpalatable things bearable has been the order of the week.

The prospect of the government being forced to make unpalatable concessions, overhauling the pension system and eroding workers' rights, in addition to further taxes on property and goods, has been greeted with despondency and despair.

The new prime minister, Gordon Brown, said at his first news conference last month that he wanted to demonstrate the "importance we attach to nonviolence" and "the importance we attach to the dignity of each individual," and in the process make unpalatable the "extreme message of those who practice violence and would maim and murder citizens on British soil".

RBS decision-makers are under pressure on two fronts: politicians are accusing the bank of choking off credit, particularly for Britain's small and medium-sized businesses, but many in the City believe RBS's weakness is its reluctance to make unpalatable decisions, especially where a large number of jobs are at stake.

Yes, she's making unpalatable-looking Soylent Green out of fish and, yes, the whole thing comes off like a cheapskate remake of The Mist that only stars hairspray and the colour beige.

But the reasons it appealed to them also made it unpalatable to politicians from the Sinhalese majority.

Very often modernising rulers have embodied secularism at its very worst and have made it unpalatable to their subjects.

In this short span the government has made some unpalatable decisions, and it began to earn cautious international respect for tackling an Augean task.