The question is how to create a more liberal immigration regime that can still be made politically palatable on a continent as prone to xenophobia as Europe.
Equally unfamiliar but more immediately palatable is a dish of cold soba noodles with tororo, a kind of mountain yam.
Under the advisement of Michel Rolland, a Bordeaux-based wine consultant, Grover produces a variety of whites and reds, including sauvignon blanc, viognier, cabernet and shiraz, that are as palatable with a plate of cumin-crusted lamb chops as they are on their own.
Intrepid Soutter got an idea: why not lower the bar a bit on the oak barrels and aging time and bring a palatable product to the American market for a dollar or two less?
Failure really is not a palatable option, as maintenance cost can destroy the economics of a wind farm.
They believe that Mr. Romney's business background makes him a palatable Republican alternative to the president.
For many employees, however, selling shares later this year may not be a palatable option.
The not terribly palatable stuff has a role in weight-loss diets, too.
They are generally less sweet than sucrose (table sugar), so they are often mixed with very sweet artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium, to form a palatable substitute in low sugar, low carbohydrate, and diabetic or "diet" products.
More than a year later, neither side in the contraception debate was happy with the FDA's surprise twist, which many perceived as an attempt to find a palatable middle ground between imposing an age limit of 17 and imposing no limit at all.
Soon the British were producing their own gin, though a shortage of grain meant that they literally had to make the stuff from hogwash at first. (It tasted awful.) In the early 18th century British agriculture turned around, grain became more plentiful and gin became more palatable, though a far cry from what we know today.
The challenge is making games that require a mouse and keyboard palatable to people who are used to a controller, or to people who just don't want to migrate PC controls to the comfort of their living room.
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Their leader, Stephen Harper, offered a fresh and palatable face for the party, but his opponents painted him as a closet extremist, who would gut Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
But don't expect that at over 200 years old, we're looking at a particularly palatable potation.
He was a more palatable interlocutor for the West than Mr Putin had been.
Would some sort of cap on tax preferences be palatable to Republicans when a tax hike clearly is not?
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Democratic House Leader Dick Gephardt said today he will introduce a more palatable version of fast-track trade negotiation legislation later this week.
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For weeks, the panel has been flummoxed as members have tried to come up with a politically palatable way to pay for an overhaul of the system.
In the early 18th century British agriculture turned around, grain became more plentiful, and gin at last became more palatable--though a far cry from what we know today.
It is also phony centrism, trying to make it appear that the Republicans have an option palatable to them and a working partner, when in fact they do not.
He plans to change that image, and with an affable and interested manner, he will be leading efforts to make the Conservatives a more palatable proposition in the staffroom.
Now, the company apparently plans to cut the price as well, by introducing a budget Leaf next year in a bid to come up with a more palatable sticker price.
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UnitedHealth's announcement is one of a number of attempts to make the managed-care industry a little more palatable.
Over the course of time, the Amaro alcohol was made pure and more palatable, perfecting it into a distinctively delectable beverage.
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Arne Duncan praised the New Haven contract, a much more palatable agreement for the majority to swallow, not the DC contract.
Today, the banking landscape is a lot more palatable for risk-averse investors.
If the euro zone uses this period of ECB-induced market calm to repackage tough choices in a more politically palatable way, then some good may yet come of this antiausterity backlash.
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