Sentence examples for unpalatable actions from inspiring English sources

But with politicians unwilling to take unpalatable actions, like raising taxes or abrogating labor agreements, the situation will only get worse.

House leaders would have been faced with two unpalatable courses of action: either delay approval of the department until next year or call all House members back.

Meanwhile, it has become increasingly clear that preemptive military action is unpalatable to most U.N.-member states, some of which are already planning containment strategies to address what they view as an inevitability.

The White House was forced to consider the unpalatable option of taking unilateral action against the regime of Bashar al-Assad after the British prime minister, David Cameron, said UK would not now take part in any military action in response to a chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus last week.

On the other hand, in the 21st century alone, the United States, Russia and China have used the veto power 26 times to thwart Security Council action on issues they found unpalatable.

Such unsubtle tricks are an unpalatable but understandable effort to integrate audience and action; far more problematic is Kyle's tendency to approach the text in the manner of a GCSE study aid.

It is true that the actions of African leaders have made politics to be unpalatable for young people.

The discussion ended with Thatcher summing up, saying "further thought would need to be given to all possible courses of action in regard to Northern Ireland, however difficult or unpalatable".

Disagreements over Moscow's actions in Ukraine have made the current Soyuz arrangement increasingly unpalatable for Washington.

As that faction will propose ever-escalating responses to executive action, the GOP leadership will be faced with the unpalatable choice between surrendering to the far right -- and with that capitulation abandoning any hope of positioning the party as a serious, governing party for 2016 -- or acquiescing to Obama and alienating the GOP primary electorate, just as the 2016 horse race gets started.

Do you think the actions against the journalists are retaliation for reporting Chinese authorities found unpalatable?