If Fiat does not sell the car division, it is faced with an unpalatable choice.
And those conditions are what have proven so unpalatable to the Italians -- austerity and reform.
The rate regulations make it unpalatable for private firms to venture into those sectors.
They will only offer up deals that are guaranteed to be unpalatable to their opponents.
However unpalatable this may seem for a new Labour administration, the alternative looks even bleaker.
This should ensure that the protocol will be ratified, however unpalatable that may be.
Mr Monti was put in office to introduce unpalatable measures that would eliminate the budget deficit.
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Mr Obama's good fortune is that it is not only progressives who find the deal unpalatable.
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The fiscal pressure may make the most unpalatable measures, such as a reform of state pensions, economically inescapable.
The Democrats who dominate both houses of the legislature find deep cuts to education and health care unpalatable.
Nonetheless, General Musharraf may have to swallow politically unpalatable reforms, such as bringing retailers into the tax net.
Instead, it can have the effect of actually propping up unpalatable regimes, rather than increasing pressure for their reform.
The committee's report recognises some unpalatable truths as far as Iowans are concerned.
The ruby red, teardrop-shape Hachiya is unpalatable if it's anything but dead ripe.
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They are dangerous things, their production and transport often unpalatable, the less visible environmental consequences of their use worse still.
If Leveson recommends any form of new law to regulate the press the prime minister will face an unpalatable choice.
He received three unpalatable meals a day usually a sandwich of bread and cheese, or cold rice with canned vegetables, or soup.
No one would be held responsible for making unpalatable decisions, especially the Germans as Merkel heads into an election year.
Some supermaxes even use food as punishment, serving the prisoners nutra-loaf, an unpalatable food brick that contains just enough nutrition for survival.
But Mr Netanyahu's people say that Israel's new government, elected by a right-lurching public, cannot be bound by such unsigned, unpalatable understandings.
Yediot's report asserts that Obama refused to brief Netanyahu on the steps his administration is taking to avert such an unpalatable option.
After his experiences with Fokker, which cost Daimler-Benz DM2.3 billion, this is perhaps the most unpalatable project for the born-again Daimler chairman.
Most of the options for dealing with the debt overhang are unpalatable.
Indeed, it will have countless unpalatable budgetary decisions to make, not least making the social security system affordable given Japan's rapidly aging population.
The unpalatable truth seems to be that some Americans simply do not care to eat a balanced diet, while others, increasingly, cannot afford to.
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Through Mr Mubarak, Mr Demirel delivered to Syria's President Hafez Assad a menu of demands so unpalatable that the Arabs assumed Turkey wanted war.
That leaves Europe facing a range of unpalatable options (see table).
Besides, Mr Lazio does not match the usual unpalatable Gingrich stereotype.
Yet do the measures, however unpalatable, really equate to a disaster?
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Even with compensating income transfers to poorer people, who benefit in absolute terms less than the better-off from the tax relief, the idea is politically unpalatable.
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