(1) Brown has given his successor his or her best chance of making a Lab-Lib deal work and making it sellable internally and to the country.
(2) But there also has to be a sense of what is sellable to voters, who are a lot more sceptical of government than they were in the post-war golden age.
(3) In part, it’s about educating sports teams that some of their programs that are traditionally viewed as costs, like a zero waste program or a recycling program, can now be seen as sellable assets, he said.
(4) No one who really matters in this high-stakes political game pretends that the health secretary's original plan, for Monitor to become an economic regulator which compels hospitals to compete with each other in his originally envisaged free-market-modelled new NHS, is now the right thing to do, or politically sellable.
(5) Even if Syriza succeeds in forming a government and manages to convince its neighbours they should show it some forgiveness, coming up with a deal that is economically feasible and politically sellable will be a formidable challenge for international diplomats.
(6) What matters for the deficit, though, is whether it is politically sellable.
(7) There is an element of confidence now.” Banks have been holding more cash and easily sellable assets in the run-up to the vote, so this has reduced their demand for any extra contingency funds.
(8) Turning every aspect of our public services into mutuals as they imagine them – or mutual “joint ventures” with growing opportunities for private investors – seems more politically sellable than more blatant forms of privatisation.
(9) He replied: “Two grand; two and a half grand; eighteen hundred quid; fourteen hundred quid.” “Sellable yes, necklaces all stone ones, few of them.
(10) It also makes the program more sellable to taxpayers.
(11) Hollande's third problem is that there is no stomach in France for a German-style package of reforms, nor has there been a deep-enough crisis to make a Thatcherite approach politically sellable.
Sold
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sell
() imp. & p. p. of Sell.
(n.) Solary; military pay.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the biggest privatisation since John Major sold the railways in the 1990s.
(2) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(3) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(4) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(5) Perhaps local governments could contribute a proportion of the asking price of a house if it is to be sold to a local who will actually live in it?
(6) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
(7) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(10) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
(11) The four other works were sold at auction at Christie's and disappeared into private collections.
(12) He knew how to shmooze Middle East clients and his al-Yamamah deal - under which jets were sold to Saudi Arabia - was the mid-1980s contract which secured his later position as executive chairman at BAE Systems .
(13) She, and three other captives, were told that if they didn't pay $10,000 each within a few days, they would be sold to Bedouin traffickers in Sinai.
(14) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The flat in Crouch End, north London that Linda Grant bought for £92,000 in 1994 and sold for £660,000 last year.
(16) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
(17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
(18) Since 2006, some charities have sold donated goods as agent of the donor and then written to the donor, asking if they wish to give the proceeds of sale to the charity.
(19) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(20) When Hussain gave him a camera and told Cromitie to reconnoitre targets, he promptly sold it.