I whispered Catherine that she mustn't, on any account, accede to the proposal: it was entirely out of the question.

我低声对凯瑟琳说无论如何她决不能同意这个提议：那是完全不能考虑的。

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It raises a question: was the path that Mr Koizumi chose to get Japan out of the economic swamp misguided, at least in part?

这提出了一个问题：小泉当时选择的拯救日本的道路是不是，至少一定程度上，走错方向了？

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Mr Lagardère has the right to veto any such move and recently said that switching to a standard corporate structure was out of the question.

拉加代尔先生有权否决任何的此类运动，并在最近表示，公司转换到普通公司的企业结构式不可能的。

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Opposition voters demanded a revote, but Putin said that was out of the question.

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With the debt-ceiling crisis, however, the willingness to wait until the last moment removed any chance of learning and, more to the point, there was never much of a commitment to learning on the part of many of the principal actors: over and over again we were informed that such thoughtful exploration was out of the question because of prior campaign pledges made to constituents.

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What had begun as a good working relationship began to break down when the government declared that a public inquiry was out of the question.

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