The events of the last two years have confirmed beyond doubt one nasty ineluctable truth about Britain (well, perhaps not quite ineluctable, it's amazing what politicians and economists can eluct when they try).
2013, Jeff MacGregor, "Waiting for Goodell", in Glenn Stout, J. R. Moehringer, The Best American Sports Writing 2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (→ISBN), page 387:
Vladimir: A symbol of quality. It was unquestionable.
Estragon: Incontrovertible.
Vladimir: Ineluctable.
Estragon: Indisputable.
Vladimir: Undeniable.
Estragon: And now?
Vladimir: I question. I dispute. I eluct.
Estragon: What was once indubitable is now dubitable.
More definitive answers cannot be elucted from Carlton's important analysis, because it is unavoidably qualitative in nature. The main source of rigid prices, however, lies elsewhere, in the proliferation of long-term contracts that stipulate a ...
