With the debt-ceiling crisis, however, the willingness to wait until the last moment removed any chance of learning and, more to the point, there was never much of a commitment to learning on the part of many of the principal actors: over and over again we were informed that such thoughtful exploration was out of the question because of prior campaign pledges made to constituents.
There was no money to buy even a small space heater, and of course a TV was out of the question.
Since I was only working part time, paying these debts was out of the question.
In any event, everyone said that taking Coronel alive was out of the question.
These days most medals are awarded at the White House, but with the war heating up, such a long trip was out of the question.
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What had begun as a good working relationship began to break down when the government declared that a public inquiry was out of the question.
Manually translating all of these documents was out of the question.
Making propaganda films was out of the question.
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Sleeping in the headphones on an airplane is a challenge, though they produce odd noises, including a whistling sound, when I leaned my head against certain surfaces, and sleeping on my side was out of the question.
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Anyone who knows how heavy industry used to work in Scotland - shipbuilding is the example I know best - knows that for generations promotion was out of the question if you went to a school called St Anything's.
Finding the money to move back to "the continent", as they call the rest of Russia, was suddenly out of the question.
But that we might have to fill out an unemployment form over the Internet was not out of the question.
Senator Routier said a population cap was not out of the question.
He added it was "out of the question" to accept Mr Sharon's call for a "very long-term interim agreement" for the Palestinians as opposed to a permanent solution.
The energy minister also pledged to boost security at energy installations but insisted it was "out of the question to allow foreign security forces to handle the security" of Algerian oil facilities.
Mr Cameron said on Wednesday that it was "not out of the question we may have to do things in our own way".
No sooner had he left his midday news conference than 14 Republicans were on hand to tell reporters that proposing immediate withdrawal was outrageous and out of the question.
Champion says, particularly because of the earlier incident in Jackson, his team investigated the question of whether Butts was killed out of hate.
In the back of our minds, always, was the question of how we would ever make it out in time to make a flight to Hawaii for a long-scheduled family reunion and vacation.
Dating seemed to be out of the question when he was heavier, but he now has a girlfriend.
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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.
Golf and travel, favorite pastimes, were out of the question, and he was worried about being able to argue his cases standing in court.
Detroit's biggest question coming out of spring training was how the bullpen would perform.
After that, it was just a question of how many hitters Sanchez could strike out.
The main question: whether bringing out Schmidt was a sign of confidence or anxiety.
On the evidence so far, the question of how Mr Kelly was treated peters out in civil service procedures.
The majority report also acknowledges that another major question that grew out of the election was left unanswered: whether a big increase in "issue advocacy" advertising by nonprofit groups was an improper attempt to influence the outcome of elections, and whether the groups' "independent expenditures" were truly independent of the campaigns they benefited.
True, the British government did not exactly spell things out (its white paper in 1971 said there was no question of losing essential sovereignty), but the European project, with its promise of ever-closer union, always had an overtly political dimension.
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