The unpalatable choice: Raise taxes or cut spending or both.

- but we long ago got the general concept that covering the news sometimes involves unpalatable choices.

The negotiators are thus facing unpalatable choices: risk recession, in their view.

"I will tell you what will help to get us to a place where we don't have an unpalatable choice," she said.

Ms. Rice's best and brightest should not have to fear making unpalatable choices when a baby comes along.

Anything to forestall the unpalatable choice he was being forced to make.

Officials involved in the dispute say that there may not be a positive resolution, only a set of unpalatable choices.

Better to muddle along than make hard, unpalatable choices.

But considering the alternative, it was true: he had an unpalatable choice to make.

That left staying where she was, also an unpalatable choice.