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Indian newspapers, almost unobtainable in Pakistan, are available on-line.
Plea bargains were unobtainable in the early years of American justice.
Its bizarre conclusion: "total transparency is for practicable reasons unobtainable and in principle even undesirable".The Labour Party has sought to contrast its own relative openness with Tory secrecy.
The gentleman argues that "the consensus view of the respective groups of every advanced nation on climate change cannot be ignored while we wait for an unobtainable golden thread of evidence".If the science behind the theory is sound, why is this evidence "unobtainable"; we are dealing with physical matter are we not?
The PPP reminded voters that when the forerunner to Mr Granger's party last held power, through rigged elections, from 1964 to 1992, basic goods such as cheese and wheat flour were almost unobtainable.
As Marcus Noland of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, explains, one immediate effect of the reforms is that there are now products available for hard currency, such as video players and movies like "The Lion King" dubbed in Korean, which were previously unobtainable.
Number unobtainable Much ado about porting Grinched Truly revolutionary Tilting at windmills?
And they are demanding, just as unrealistically, that the new state should be founded on the principle that East Jerusalem is its sovereign capital and that the refugees who were forced out of Israel in 1948 have the right to return.With grandstanding on both sides, a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian settlement, covering everything, is virtually unobtainable.
We're clean ReprintsThe government itself now pays a quarter of its workers partly in convertible pesos or non-peso coupons enough for a little cooking oil or soap, often unobtainable for pesos, which can buy little but fruit and vegetables at the high-priced farmers' markets.
Inflation is rising, while three years of price controls mean that basic foods such as milk, eggs and flour are often unobtainable.
Simone proclaimed her love for him but refused to leave her husband; Yvonne declared herself unobtainable but affected the reverse.
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The word "unobtainable" functions primarily as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something that cannot be obtained or acquired. Ludwig provides various examples where "unobtainable" describes resources, goals, or concepts that are beyond reach.
Expression frequency: Very common
