non-starters

• “Making a real dent in a land where the car is so entrenched is tough sledding and I would imagine any policies that severely discourage cars are non-starters.”

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• “Many of the suggestions would appear to be non-starters politically.”

  Second Term Policies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Doing so would necessitate the NLD disavowing its election victory and the ethnics relinquishing their means of preserving autonomy—clearly non-starters.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Change Burma Can't Quite Believe In

• “No mention is made here of the thousands of non-starters that Ertegun must have encountered in his nightly prowls.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Man Behind the Music

• “Such reforms have been non-starters with most of the Democratic caucus due to fierce opposition from public sector unions.”

  The Wall Street Journal: California Budget Battle Inches Forward

• “I have omitted suggestions for taxes that I think are total political non-starters in the current environment, like a VAT tax.”

  The Huffington Post: Lyric Hughes Hale: How to Solve the US Budget Crisis -- Dismiss the SuperCommittee

• “Yet the session with Sperling cemented the fact that, despite growing evidence the economy will not heal on its own, this administration is failing to marshal an adequate response, accepting the conventional wisdom that all potential initiatives are political non-starters.”

  The Huffington Post: Larry Summers: The American Economy is Sick

• “Getting a national exchange with a Medicare option, bans on denying pre-exisitng conditions, end of recission, employer/individual mandate, and stripping the anti-trust exemption from the insurance industry sounds pretty centre-left … which is where the party SHOULD be … but almost all of those conditions are non-starters.”

  Think Progress » Poll Confirms Massachusetts Election Was Not A Rejection Of Health Care Reform

• “But these kind of laws, now, are non-starters," Mr. Idlibi said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Damascus to Allow Organized Opposition

• “Many of the other ideas floated by the Commission and national authorities are non-starters.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Europe's Ratings Rage Is Misdirected

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