Sentence examples for ultimatum will be from inspiring English sources

Here the ultimatum will be: "Abstinence-based drug rehabilitation or prison?" Sure, rehab is expensive for the taxpayer, but not as expensive as prison where addicts are often liable to end up anyway.

Not wanting her children to be afflicted with her troubles, she issues an ultimatum: TV-watching will be replaced with book reading.

He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically.

His initiatives were not appreciated by either the political or broadcasting establishments, and official disapproval of a foreigner owning a British TV station led to regulators giving him an ultimatum: sell up or the licence will be revoked.

In other words, given a concern to promote one's own self-interest, the prediction is that minimal offers will be made in ultimatum games to maximize one's take-home amount which is the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium (Kahneman et al. 1986: S289; Forsythe et al. 1994: 348; Güth 1995: 331; Pillutla and Murnighan 1995: 1409, 2003: 248; Straub and Murnighan 1995: 345 346).

After several months, Mitchell went to the police station to issue an ultimatum: "If anything happens to my son, it will be on your hands".

The European council should give the British an ultimatum on their intentions and the French president will be very clear in that respect.

Before the Austrian visit, Akunis issued an ultimatum to Austria saying that the upcoming meeting "will be held in the office of the Minister of Science or nowhere".

Leading an economy that inevitably will be bigger than ours, Xi's ultimatums should not be indifferently ignored.

The only way that Saddam Hussein might agree to this is if we send him an ultimatum that he has 48 hours to comply or war will be declared.

The implication is that there will be opportunities for careful alliance-building and diplomatic ultimatums before any strike has to take place.