While politically unpalatable, a big rate increase for consumers is perhaps the only thing that could significantly narrow the gap between electricity supply and demand by this summer, said Daniel Yergin, the chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
While politically unpalatable in nations like Germany, deficit spending appears to be the only rational way out of this Great Recession.
Patriarchy is being left to its own devices while bad and unpalatable men are being taken to task one by one.
One report suggests that he found the theology taught in a local Cambridge mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston, unpalatable: while attending a Friday service in which an imam praised the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Tsarnaev shouted that the imam was a "nonbeliever".
Labor preferences against their own ultimate legislative interests, while engaging in electorally unpalatable behaviour.
This is unpalatable, especially while the economy continues to stagnate – it goes against Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander's promise not to balance the books on the backs of the poor.
On the other hand, when a rise in inflation jolts an economy stuck at the zero bound closer to potential output, that does amount to the capture of (hundreds of billions in) bills sitting on the sidewalk.More importantly, while inflation might be unpalatable in many ways, the alternatives look more costly and dramatically less likely to succeed.
Books like Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma_"_ had opened the public's eyes to the corporate food industry's more unpalatable practices, while a swelling roster of shows on the Food Network and elsewhere — including Bourdain's own "No Reservations" — encouraged us to consider food as a viable spectator sport.
We had both come to accept certain truths, some unpalatable, and while we were both still angry and confused, we had found coping mechanisms that were allowing us to function with renewed focus and purpose.
