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Against this background was an unpalatable fact: the poverty of the suburbs where the immigrants were concentrated.
As a result, the original perennial vegetation has been replaced by low densities of annuals and unpalatable spiny species.
However, it has been speculated that these ticks are advertising something, perhaps that they are unpalatable.
The conclusion may strike one as surprising or even unpalatable.
The reason is that mobile capital may easily disapprove of unpalatable tax policies or lax budget policies by moving abroad.
To make work pay to a greater extent there are unpalatable but inescapable choices.
The fact is, any plausible moral view will have implications that may initially be unpalatable.
There is, in my view, nothing unpalatable here.
The ' ' language ' ' label, like most such tags, was unpalatable to most of the poets who came under it.
Had he not made this unpalatable restriction, it would have become obvious that his axiom was too blunt.
Whether some parasites are unpalatable is yet to be determined.
To avoid having to choose among the three unpalatable alternatives of increasing taxes, reducing benefits and/or raising the retirement age, governments have thus resorted to a fourth option.
If history and science were really distinct reality domains, then either history or science would have to serve as a replacement for metaphysics, an unpalatable conclusion for a religious thinker.
Secondly, the retreat from commercialism was seen to be achieved by making the music faster, harder and more unpalatable to commercial extractors - a tactic tried unsuccessfully by punk rock.
Such neglect and disagreement can be explained by contemporary confusion and the urge of those subsequently seeking to legitimise the revolution to hide the unpalatable and rewrite history.
Self-regarding activities might very reliably endanger their practitioners and yet, if practiced only by a few, will force only a relatively small number of unpalatable choices on third parties.
However, if this goes too far, a government may seem more concerned with giving favourable impressions than in imparting facts that may be unpalatable.
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There is always a nice balance between telling ourselves unpalatable facts and giving our competitors "knocking copy".
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Of course this is an unpalatable fact, but it is the centre of the whole situation in which we find ourselves.
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We can say what we believe and get away with our views, no matter how unacceptable or unpalatable they are to other people.
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Of course, medicine of this kind is unpalatable, and those who have to take it will naturally complain.
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I turn to certain other unpalatable facts which have to be faced.
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I do not believe that we can get away from democratic decisions, however unpalatable they are.
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Even given the maximum attention to priorities and efficiency, a standstill will still have some unpalatable implications for services.
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They have only two choices before them and both are unpalatable.
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An unpalatable truth is not likely to appeal to the electorate.
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There are nearly always two or more unpalatable solutions and you have to find which is the less unpalatable and go for that.
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There is an extra bit of icing on this unpalatable cake.
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I think that the country expects unpalatable things to be said, but they would prefer the truth, and they would prefer to know it now.
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The unpalatable fact remains that her failure has resulted in taxes being raised by £250 million.
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Nevertheless, is he aware that the whole industry has made most unpalatable concessions so as to arrive at a settlement?
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Without doubt this was one of those unpalatable decisions.
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I am afraid that some of my facts are very unpalatable.
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Many employers and employees throughout industry have recognised that the counter-inflationary measures, unpalatable as they must be, are a lesser evil than continued inflation.
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The other things which go with it are very unpalatable.
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The plain truth, although it may be unpalatable to them, is that they want something smart and dapper in which to swank about the world.
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They find it unpalatable that at a young age their work is ended and that there is no prospect that their sons will replace them.
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My concern is whether the public are getting the information which would make the difficult and unpalatable legal action possible, if it was embarked upon.
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We all admire his courage in taking unpalatable decisions.
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Let us, to begin with, consider the facts, and consider them frankly and fearlessly, however unpalatable they may appear to be.
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With their very restricted diet the food they had to eat was completely unpalatable unless it could be salted.
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I can only give an interim answer, which is an unpalatable answer.
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The question is, what is the duty of members of an authority who find themselves faced with a choice of unpalatable decisions?
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I am afraid that we have to face one unpalatable fact at the outset.
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Perhaps the reason was that the country never likes to be told unpalatable truths.
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Where the food is not eaten because it is unpalatable it may be that more than the fair value was deducted.
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We were caught between what might be called the unpalatable and the impracticable.
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There is a very strong retrospective element which is also very unpalatable in the clause and these amendments.
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I am sorry to say that, but it is time we faced these most unpalatable facts.
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Turning to sugar, there are certain facts—perhaps unpalatable facts—which we must face.
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I hope that they do not find them too unpalatable.
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We are considering a very serious security situation, and sometimes in response to such situations we have to take unpalatable measures.
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Unpalatable policy decisions may well have to be taken.
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No effort was spared, no unpalatable measure was avoided and as a result there was no hazard whatever to the consumer.
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The unpalatable truth is that what started as a peace process long ago degenerated into a process of appeasement.
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Therefore, which of the two unpalatable lines does one take?
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More minibuses, too, have proved extremely popular, as has easier through-ticketing; but one day, however unpalatable it may appear, road pricing must be seriously considered.
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The five instruments for achieving reform are all unpalatable to a greater or lesser extent.
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Therefore, it is important—it may be unpalatable to many people—that we do not exclude the possibility of further action out of area.
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The idea that women in labour and in stress should be asked to regard a helicopter as a mainstay is unpalatable.
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The fact of closure is galling enough on its own, but the excuse for the closure makes it even more unacceptable and unpalatable.
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All those things are unpalatable, but those schools accept that if they are to continue to exist they may well have to accept such conditions.
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The sooner we face up to this, no matter how unpalatable it may be, the sooner we shall solve these problems.
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The report urges the introduction of "clear escape routes"and personal alarms in some instances when unemployed people receive"unpalatable and unwelcome information".
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I suspect that it will be a very unpalatable report.
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However unpalatable it may seem, the uncontrolled expansion of a species—sometimes the result of successful conservation policies—may occur only at the expense of other species.
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He always told them the truth as he understood it, however unpalatable it might be.
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Accordingly, we should look afresh at some of the things that have been found unpalatable in the past.
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I wonder whether this objective of a large growth is obtainable without an unpalatable degree of inflation.
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However unpalatable that may be, it is a basic fact of life.
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If that means taking what some people may regard as unpalatable measures, so be it.
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Individuals will be called upon to make unpalatable decisions.
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The journalists round her would not accept that and pressed her with unpalatable and familiar statistics.
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There they are; unpalatable as they are, they are the truth and nothing but the truth.
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I must mention the highly unpalatable subject of chemical warfare.
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I know that they are unpleasant and unpalatable, but they are facts.
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Unpalatable as they may be, the facts stare us in the face.
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The position is unpalatable for almost all of us, but we cannot alter things.
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However, there is one unpalatable fact which must be faced.
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They face extremely hard and unpalatable choices, and unless the arrangements are quickly changed for next year, the consequences will be truly catastrophic.
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What was done at the beginning of the war was obviously right, although unpalatable.
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He had to accustom the people of this country to restrictions upon their everyday method of life which were unpalatable, irksome, and novel.
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The children complained that the food was cold and unpalatable and, naturally, the staff complained that the working conditions were unsatisfactory.
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The new triangle is both the product of incontrovertible logic and distinctly unpalatable and abnormal.
Put this way, the idea of continuity residing in some irreducible core is unpalatable as well as implausible.
Crucially, the increase in plausibility afforded by this analytical stance need not come at the theoretically unpalatable cost of courting determinism.
Unpalatable statute law may not be disregarded or rejected, merely because it is unpalatable.
Nevertheless, current grammatical freedom is unpalatable to many educated in a more rigid era.
We have argued that our thesis does not generate the unpalatable result that all (even ordinary) assertions ought to be uncovered.
The codification of this private authority has proven to be, at a minimum, politically and socially unpalatable.
His memory's cook offers physical and moral sustenance; the khansama, in contrast, produces unpalatable, if not dangerous, fare.
He is astute in showing us the unpalatable truth that modern liberal democracy tends to undermine aesthetic greatness, heroic individuality, and aristocratic notions of freedom.
The seal hunt was enacted in ways that would be unpalatable to many of our urban student teachers.
The problems lie in various objections that lead to unpalatable conclusions.
However, much of his message about people and organizations has a ring of truth, even if the medium is unpalatable for some.
Generally, unripe fruits are rendered unpalatable by the tannins that precipitate salivary mucoproteins and cause astringency.
We tested whether the fruit and seed types used were unpalatable to large terrestrial mammals to explain the surprising lack of feeding activity.
Commonsensically, dictatorship relative to a given profile is less unpalatable than it would be on a set of many profiles.
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