nonstarter

We very quickly realized that if people talked about right-wing terrorism, it was a nonstarter with them.

Anything that’s going to weaken or diminish the ability for our law enforcement officers to respond would be a nonstarter for me.

Arranging smells in a map-like way may sound like a nonstarter.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have said that a limited stimulus package, or anything below $2 trillion, is a nonstarter.

This plan has the virtue of relative simplicity, but is considered a nonstarter with Republicans.

End the tax-free status of employer health benefits:  So many problems with this, I think we can all agree it's a nonstarter.

I know, at this point, that the first option is a nonstarter.

But Mitt Romney for president is a nonstarter, despite headquartering his campaign in the North End of Boston.

Yet even before the document became public, Republicans called it a nonstarter and dead on arrival.