The most drastic or extreme response possible to a particular situation.
核手段；核选择
extreme Eurosceptics championed the nuclear option of pulling out of Europe
极端疑欧派支持将核手段撤出欧洲。
Example sentencesExamples
A parade of senators - all of them Republican - made their way into the studio, to go on camera advocating the nuclear option.
The polls show broad and growing opposition to the nuclear option, plus a strong desire to see the Democrats act as a brake on Republican extremism.
I am working hard with Senator Leahy, Senator Schumer and other Democrats to find a way to confirm the president's nominees without going to the nuclear option.
Republican leaders insisting that they would then respond by using the so-called nuclear option.
Then that could spark the Republicans to bring back this notion of the so-called nuclear option, which would end the use of the filibuster for judicial nominations.
Santorum wants to slow down the push the for nuclear option in the senate after seeing that the issue isn't polling well for the Republicans.
And we are not going to let the White House run the Senate, and therefore I'm going to vote against nuclear option.
First came the impeachment, the nuclear option of partisan warfare.
They want to invoke the so-called nuclear option and get rid of the 150-year-old tradition in order to ram through more right-wing judges.
Would you consider using the filibuster, that nuclear option, as a compromise called for under extreme circumstances for a Supreme Court nominee?
His plan is an alternative to the so-called nuclear option that Republicans have considered in order to nullify those Democratic filibusters.
This is what forces the GOP to nuclear options like constitutional amendments, violent demagoguery and impeachment.
American politics has been repeatedly punctuated by the threats that constituted the nuclear options of their day.
In his floor speech, Mr. Reid called Mr. Frist's proposal a ‘slow-motion nuclear option.’
Senator Frist also vowed to use the so-called nuclear option to win approval for justices Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown.
To end the opposition, Republicans are considering the so-called nuclear option, changing Senate rules to eliminate the use of filibusters.
The nuclear option could take a variety of forms.
I had threatened the nuclear option a few months ago, when he was calling Jasper names; now he returns to this calumny before he takes a ten day vacation.
The so-called nuclear option purports to be directed solely at the Senate's advice and consent prerogatives regarding federal judges.
Senator Frist is edging closer and closer to using the so-called nuclear option in changing Senate rules to ban the use of filibusters to block those judicial nominations.
Definition of nuclear option in US English:
nuclear option
noun
The most drastic or extreme response possible to a particular situation.
核手段；核选择
Example sentencesExamples
A parade of senators - all of them Republican - made their way into the studio, to go on camera advocating the nuclear option.
Then that could spark the Republicans to bring back this notion of the so-called nuclear option, which would end the use of the filibuster for judicial nominations.
In his floor speech, Mr. Reid called Mr. Frist's proposal a ‘slow-motion nuclear option.’
Santorum wants to slow down the push the for nuclear option in the senate after seeing that the issue isn't polling well for the Republicans.
And we are not going to let the White House run the Senate, and therefore I'm going to vote against nuclear option.
The so-called nuclear option purports to be directed solely at the Senate's advice and consent prerogatives regarding federal judges.
First came the impeachment, the nuclear option of partisan warfare.
His plan is an alternative to the so-called nuclear option that Republicans have considered in order to nullify those Democratic filibusters.
The nuclear option could take a variety of forms.
Senator Frist is edging closer and closer to using the so-called nuclear option in changing Senate rules to ban the use of filibusters to block those judicial nominations.
They want to invoke the so-called nuclear option and get rid of the 150-year-old tradition in order to ram through more right-wing judges.
I had threatened the nuclear option a few months ago, when he was calling Jasper names; now he returns to this calumny before he takes a ten day vacation.
Republican leaders insisting that they would then respond by using the so-called nuclear option.
Would you consider using the filibuster, that nuclear option, as a compromise called for under extreme circumstances for a Supreme Court nominee?
The polls show broad and growing opposition to the nuclear option, plus a strong desire to see the Democrats act as a brake on Republican extremism.
To end the opposition, Republicans are considering the so-called nuclear option, changing Senate rules to eliminate the use of filibusters.
This is what forces the GOP to nuclear options like constitutional amendments, violent demagoguery and impeachment.
Senator Frist also vowed to use the so-called nuclear option to win approval for justices Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown.
I am working hard with Senator Leahy, Senator Schumer and other Democrats to find a way to confirm the president's nominees without going to the nuclear option.
American politics has been repeatedly punctuated by the threats that constituted the nuclear options of their day.