But the idea is gaining currency that Britain may be an intolerable obstacle to European unity.
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The industry argues that this would be an intolerable violation of the sanctity of loan-pooling contracts.
Could what's being described as a prudent investment turn out to be an intolerable burden?
Italy's National Association of Magistrates condemned Mr Berlusconi's speech as "an intolerable escalation of insults and aggression".
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This is an intolerable situation reflecting one of the most persistent injustices of our times: unequal access to education.
"They claimed it would place an intolerable burden on local taxpayers, " he said.
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However, a risk-based levy might prove an intolerable burden for an already-troubled bank.
In a democracy this is an intolerable situation for an agency that now has such enormous power over the American economy.
By combining the two matters into a single proposal on the proxy, Sullivan said, Apple presented investors with an intolerable choice.
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Inventing work for even more surplus commissioners as enlargement proceeded, and diverting resources and staff to their use, would be an intolerable strain.
Violence against journalists in Mexico has reached an intolerable level.
These were considered by the dominant Left culture to be an intolerable apostasy and resulted in a blight on Ron's ability to get work anywhere in the entertainment industry.
Parallels with Latin America are quite inappropriate here: The debt of Russia and the other states has not yet reached the point where even repaying the interest becomes an intolerable financial burden.
Without action, the accumulated weight of that structural deficit, of ever-increasing debt, will hobble our economy, it will cloud our future, and it will saddle every child in America with an intolerable burden.
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They know that ambling through the countryside on a weekend afternoon carries an intolerable opportunity cost: the time could be so much better spent on greater things, such as whitewater canoeing or off-road biking.
According to sources, when AOL chairman Tim Armstrong said it was acceptable for Arrington to continue to work for TechCrunch while starting a new venture capital fund to invest in tech companies, Huffington took it as an intolerable incursion into her territory.
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In his two decades at University Hospital, Lillehei endured an almost intolerable number of failures.
In his two decades at University Hospital, Lillehei sustained an almost intolerable number of failures.
Vice-president of the NAHT and Staffordshire primary school head teacher Bernadette Hunter said Ofsted was putting an "intolerable amount of stress" on heads.
Annabel Goldie, in her last first minister's questions as Scottish Conservative Leader, said the government's renewables and international investment policy had put an "intolerable burden" on the Scottish economy.
This is unconscionable, it is intolerable and it is time to put an end to it.
He said it was very odd that the act of giving someone a kidney is considered "wonderful, a noble act" - yet as soon as an exchange of money is involved it becomes "so outrageous as to be intolerable".
"Such a burden would be difficult for an adult to bear, but for a young person the pressure can be almost intolerable, " she said.
"The bear M13 had certainly never showed any aggression toward man, but the risk that an accident might happen and that people might be badly injured or killed had become intolerable, " it said.
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In 1849 George Bancroft, an American historian and diplomat, said that for a man to have two countries was as intolerable as for him to have two wives.
"Rest assured that French authorities are determined to get to the bottom of these intolerable acts, " French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said, adding that the killings were "surely an execution".
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