Sentence examples similar to use a nuclear option from inspiring English sources

Francis Elliott and Sam Coates in the Times (paywall) say David Cameron is considering using a "nuclear option" to try to stop Jean-Claude Juncker becoming president of the European commission.

I've never known of a governor who lost a fight to UC. Brown has plenty of weapons to use — including a nuclear option.

But in the last couple months, a two-year-long standoff over how to increase the transaction capacity on the network — aka "the block size debate" — has escalated to a crisis point, with two sides threatening to use their versions of a nuclear option to get their way.

We'll have to see, but there are signs that the use of the budget resolution for health reform is simply being used as early leverage rather than a nuclear option to sidetrack the filibuster.

But the threat of secession is a nuclear option that residents can use to make some noise, Finch said.

And it is thinking about a new accord with America.Beware the 1930sA charitable view of the commission's proposal is that it is a nuclear option, never to be used.

Spain nullified the referendum and used a constitutional "nuclear option" to dissolve the Catalan government.

Republicans deny it and argue that Reid made an unconditional promise not to use the "nuclear option," a charge denied by Democrats.

I'd bet that a threat to use the "nuclear option" now would have a salutary effect on Republican obstructionism, and get the Democrats' agenda moving again.

They're signaling they're prepared to use the nuclear option, a rarely invoked procedural maneuver, to lower the threshold from 60 votes to 51 votes to advance a Supreme Court nominee.

In practice, it's complicated Republicans could block nomination votes with a filibuster, but if Democrats had a Senate majority, they could use the "nuclear option" to overrule that filibuster with 51votess.