No need to raise taxes to appease us (taxes are a third rail in American politics).
It is a form of third rail in national politics and too hot for anyone to handle.
Many branch lines use diesel engines and the Harlem-Hudson line uses a third rail system to draw power.
Third Rail Strategy provides downside protection against steep market losses, while still maintaining exposure to moderate market returns.
The third rail of American politics is acknowledging we may not be the greatest country in the world.
Republicans reached out to touch the third rail of Medicare and got zapped.
But the stock- futures division is the third rail of the exchange world.
Trains between London and the South East of England were particularly affected with the third rail system being iced over.
Rail services in the south east of England - which rely on a third rail electrification system - were particularly badly disrupted.
By the 1980s, Social Security would be considered to be the "third rail" in American politics -- touch the benefits and you die.
Mr Hammond told MPs that there was a possibility of a roll-out of a heated third rail system, describing it as "particularly vulnerable".
The electric third rail makes it more difficult to do maintenance safely. 1000V DC current will literally burn a person to a black crisp.
Emanuel called immigration the new "third rail" of American politics, and he thought it belonged on the back burner, if not completely off the stove.
More specifically, Third Rail Strategy eliminates losses below 15% and down to 40% while providing potential upside return capped in the low- to mid-double digits.
Trade policy is the Third Rail of Economics, because economists tell ourselves that free trade is the one thing all reasonable economists can agree on.
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Medicare and Social Security are typically viewed as the "third rail" of American politics, and presidential candidates have historically shied away from proposing sweeping changes to these programs.
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It's made an appearance on this blog before - the sole issue, probably, that suggests there is such a thing as the third rail of Welsh politics.
The Americans have a political concept called the "third rail".
The study of Islamic anti-Semitism is an academic third rail.
Third Rail Projects recently moved its wildly imaginative multimedia theatre-dance piece from a single-level hospital to a creaky three-story school building, now dressed to be a mental ward in Wonderland.
The third rail, of course, is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is untouchable, like the electric rail often found in the center of a railroad track.
Climate change is not a third rail for Republicans.
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Indeed, my preferred option -- a more active and well-regulated role for NSA and Cyber Command on and for American networks -- is almost a third rail in the debate over U.S. cybersecurity.
They say it's the third rail of politics.
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It also said the resilience of the third rail network south of the Thames should be improved, and the long-term aim should be to replace the existing network with a more resilient form of electrification.
Snow says race and ethnic issues are topics many candidates avoid as a sort of political third rail, but particularly in New Hampshire, where commentators and analysts often talk about how the state is overwhelmingly white.
Gun policies are "still a third rail especially if you're really going to try and do something about it, " said Alan Lizotte, dean and professor at the State University of New York at Albany's School of Criminal Justice.
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