stomach the idea

If you can stomach the idea of a purchase, so will others.

She can't stomach the idea of seeing her daughter kiss a woman.

The public couldn’t stomach the idea of an old person being bullied.

I couldn't stomach the idea of buying those flowers for my mom.

But we couldn't stomach the idea of leaving you without a pun or two.

Other figures in the party cannot stomach the idea.

I agree that it is difficult to stomach the idea of supporting a rate cap and don't believe we should.

Nor could they stomach the idea that the decision may be based on the failure of the prosecution to prove its case.

Nest's grandparents couldn't stomach the idea of shutting out the world.

Riker couldn't stomach the idea of abandoning the very people they'd come to save.

He told me he can't stomach the idea of having to pay extra just to get some attention from the person helping keep him alive.

"It's my job to articulate stories in a way that allows studios to stomach the idea of financing them," he said.

But it was voluntary and Maloney couldn't stomach the idea of eating any raw food at all.

He said he cannot stomach the idea of allowing the widely hated tax to rise.

But neither can he stomach the idea of voting for Mr. Kerry.

Most Jordanians, he said, can only barely stomach the idea of a military strike against Afghanistan.

Men are so incompetent and ridiculous when not base that I can't stomach the idea of equality as the ultimate goal any longer."

But Ingham cannot stomach the idea of a god "who is compassionate only towards Christians" (p. 60).

They simply cant stomach the idea that a foreign woman is capable of dominating the great Marcus Antonius.

So no matter how much the Fasskisters depended on Troyen for trade, they just couldn't stomach the idea of queens.

No one on the Rules Committee, even the Clinton partisans, can stomach the idea of giving in to Michigan.

Not only would public opinion not stomach the idea of taxpayers’ money funding party political activity, but the two big parties probably have too much to lose.

I hated the thought of breaking the news to Ken-dra, but I couldn't stomach the idea of anyone else doing it either.

He wanted to quit, needed to quit, but he could not stomach the idea of a right-wing Runyan type taking his beloved seat.

Most, however, will see it as the UAE not being able to stomach the idea of a Riyadh base for the union.