(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.
Unsellable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Leaseholds started in the 1850s had five or 10 years left to run, the property was unsellable, no one would repair it.
(2) The village authorities have told farmers not to plant rice this year, the damage radiation has caused to Fukushima's farming industry would render any crops unsellable.
(3) After the 1981 riots many businesses fled, young people could not find any work and some properties were almost unsellable.
(4) Last night Salmond referred to a “range” of available currency options but there are arguably only two, a new Scottish currency or the euro, both of which were deemed politically unsellable last time round.
(5) Yes - but does that mean that Spurs consider Benoit Assou-Ekotto an unsellable asset – they have reportedly told QPR that unless they take the left-back on loan and cover his wages then they can't have Tom Carroll on loan for the season.
(6) While heritage woodlands should earn over £220m if put on the market, the report says the majority were "unsellable at a political and practical level".
(7) Her house, though, is effectively unsellable – which, in an area usually associated with snap sales and rising prices, speaks volumes.
(8) "The commercial logic in offering a combined price for anything is a direct acknowledgement that you are either looking for a discount over the individual valuations, or you are offering a 'persuasion bonus' by taking on board by taking an unsellable asset off someone's hands in order to get the other one.
(9) Here, I meet a tireless anti-HS2 campaigner called Ewen Simpson, another resident of an apparently unsellable local house named Helen Shaul, and John Keleher and Pat Mather, who breed ponies at their stud farm.