Still, if a raise is out of the question, you can bargain for more benefits, instead.
That is not to imply that a severe global slowdown is out of the question.
Obviously UN Security Council sanctioned military action against Iran's nuclear installations is out of the question.
And with subarctic temperatures that often drop below zero, staying active outdoors is out of the question.
But an end (or easing) of prohibition is out of the question because more people would abuse drugs.
Zoos say they already have more tigers than they can take, and repatriation to Asia is out of the question.
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So what can the Obama team do if sanctions are ineffective, and if a military response is out of the question?
Running alone is out of the question because he's easily disoriented, a vulnerability that makes it difficult to lead the pack.
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"He is a great player but a move for him is out of the question, " Branca was quoted by UK's Press Association.
Some countries do not respect religious freedom even in theory in Saudi Arabia, for instance, public prayer by non-Muslims is out of the question.
Last time it was the referendum on voting reform, but another one of those is out of the question for the foreseeable future.
The idea of a shift in German policy is out of the question before elections there in September, and almost certainly afterward, officials say.
There is work being done somewhere, and the trains are running intermittently, though a taxi or a bus is out of the question the traffic insane.
Milking the spiders themselves is out of the question they're cannibals.
Given the necessity, as China's leaders see it, of showing toughness at home, making concessions to old enemies in Taiwan is out of the question.
For Jacques Chirac, France's president, it is out of the question.
Further, due to the sovereign immunity conferred on the states by The Constitution, the opportunity to push the state into involuntary bankruptcy is out of the question.
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Leading politicians are determined to avert their gaze, or worse, to insist that military action against Iran to prevent an Iranian-launched Armageddon is out of the question.
"It is out of the question to allow foreign security forces to handle the security of our oil facilities, " he said, quoted by Algeria's APS news agency.
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In India, many have started to doubt the merits of the deal, but cancelling is out of the question, bearing in mind the big sums already invested.
The iPad, dense and large, is out of the question.
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How to manage when largesse is out of the question?
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But, on the other hand, with peace in abeyance, the diplomatic and economic salvation that a treaty with Israel would have brought is out of the question as well.
And this week he reiterated his opposition to taking the number of troops in Afghanistan down to a paltry sum, and said zero is out of the question for him.
Raising equity at that valuation is out of the question, and with conventional bank loans in China having a maximum term of one year, Tri-Tech turned to the bond market, a new source of capital in China, to obtain longer term financing.
And the Pope himself has made it clear that retirement is out of the question - this despite that fact that Roman Catholic cardinals are now forced to retire and relinquish their voting rights in papal elections when they reach the age of 80.
It is out of the question that the Indian government would ever have attempted such a stunt let alone pulled it off without instigating a major national revolt, especially by Indian women whose sense of femininity is inseparable from this six yards of rectangular cloth.
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