And, finally, the nuclear option's efficiency gains would be minimal or perhaps even negative.
Finally, it's high time for the U.S. to really rethink its nuclear option for power generation.
Her partners may have owned the paper, but Huffington possessed the nuclear option: She could walk.
"But that would be the extreme nuclear option for any regulator, " said CQC head Cynthia Bower.
Honing them may help avoid the mutually-assured destruction associated with exercising a nuclear option.
All David was doing was saying that Democrats were calling it the "nuclear option, " which they were.
He welcomed the pledge by his Republican counterpart not to pursue "the nuclear option" if there are reasonable alternatives.
Mr Ozawa has one more means of destruction: the nuclear option of leading his true supporters out of the party.
But the rejection of the nuclear option looks a very real prospect.
Some of the liberal organizations that opposed the nuclear option as well as the controversial jurists in question were quick to claim victory.
R. man named Robert Humphreys, instinctively grasped that television was about to alter politics as thoroughly as the nuclear option had recently changed military strategy.
Successive prime ministers had toyed with the nuclear option, only to discard it when the presumed benefits were weighed against the very real post-nuclear dangers.
Once in the club, with full voting rights, countries can answer back, leaving their peers with only the nuclear option of trying to expel them.
In scientific wars, the nuclear option is a quantitative summary all that is known about a particular area, controlling for the problems in any individual study.
Officeholders generally don't like issues with no place safe to stand, especially when they gain as much visibility as the so-called "nuclear option" has in the Senate.
In this year's case, sensible voters have a nuclear option at their disposal should they feel that's not good enough: They can vote for the supposed runner-up.
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Yet despite the bravado, the nuclear option is enormously risky and Frist does not seem inclined to use it if there's any other way out of the impasse.
But economists argue that this would inflict such damage on investor confidence across the EU that it should only be considered as a last resort, a "nuclear option".
The nuclear option would be for the government to drop the whole Defamation Bill, but that would mean abandoning its provisions to give publication more protection from libel actions - something the industry is very keen to see.
But as long as we have the votes in our agreement, the 14 of us, as long as we stick together and honor the integrity of the agreement, then he doesn't have the nuclear option at his disposal.
It would in a way be extraordinary if after all the labour of the previous government and the current one to create a national consensus in favour of the nuclear option, the UK were to join Germany and Japan in running down nuclear.
Yesterday I asked an audience of 800 sixth-formers their opinion and, although they were pleased they weren't in Tokyo, the majority still thought nuclear was a sensible option for future energy.
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In a shocking breach of protocol and in apparent violation of the law, the man who until a few months ago stood at the helm of Israel's efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions attempted to take Israel's military option for striking Iran's nuclear installations off the table.
Mr Joshi said Iran may not be actively pursuing the creation of nuclear weapons but leaving the option open.
Indeed, some groups advocate nuclear power as a better option than wind, a situation that would have been almost unthinkable ten years ago.
Others may exercise their option to "go nuclear, " contributing to regional arms build-ups and proliferation.
Since China and India will be industrialising heavily this century, there is no other option but to consider nuclear fission power plants for electricity generation.
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