nonstarter

Example Sentences

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Spending cuts are even more difficult than in Britain—where welfare cuts have proved to be a political nonstarter—and securing a budget at all in a deeply riven French Parliament is a challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal

This was of course wishful thinking as well as a political nonstarter.

From The Wall Street Journal

Later Friday, Thune rejected a proposal from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, with the Republican leader telling reporters that it’s a “nonstarter.”

From MarketWatch

Later Friday, Thune rejected a proposal from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, with the Republican leader telling reporters that it’s a “nonstarter.”

From MarketWatch

So the idea that companies are all going to double their sales, doubling real GDP per capita, in short order, is a nonstarter.

From MarketWatch