Sentence examples for using 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.

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.

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.

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

David Cameron is clearly considering a nuclear option.

Eurocrats stress that suspension remains a "nuclear option".

But nowadays article 7 is widely considered a "nuclear option".

I do not view it as a nuclear option.

He had always regarded this as a "nuclear option".

This is not a nuclear option.

"They're talking about a nuclear option?