Definitions

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  • adjective Unable to survive or develop normally.

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  • adjective Unable to sustain its own life.

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Examples

  • The U.S. has sided with the long term inviable and ancien regime faction in that dispute, i.e. the Badrists and Maliki.

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama, Odierno, and Iraq 2009

  • The USO fund was created by the telecom department to give grants for connecting rural areas and also for commercially inviable telecom networks.

    India Body Proposes Optical Fiber Network Prasanta Sahu 2011

  • The efforts of self-reliant individuals working heroically to rebuild their homes and neighborhoods will all be for naught if a lack of flood protection makes this area uninsurable, and economically inviable.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • The efforts of self-reliant individuals working heroically to rebuild their homes and neighborhoods will all be for naught if a lack of flood protection makes this area uninsurable, and economically inviable.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Tenedora K said Mexicana's pilots, ground crews, and non-union staff were working with the new investors towards an eventual rescue of Mexicana, but expressed concern that flight attendants 'union ASSA is demanding labor conditions "that will make its rescue inviable."

    Administrator Named for Mexicana 2010

  • In some sectors, business models that made sense in January are inviable today.

    The New Boom-Bust Cycle 2009

  • Or would you like to predict that any mouse excision repair mutants are inviable?

    Another Protozoan and Front-Loading 2006

  • Once viability is determined, participants have roughly another 30 minutes to "realign": the supporters of inviable candidates may find a viable candidate to support, join together with supporters of another inviable candidate to secure a delegate for one of the two, or choose to abstain.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Y, en rigor, incluso se antoja aún más inviable, a día de hoy, este último que aquél.

    ¿Qué caminos nos quedan? 2008

  • Climate and isolation render pastoralism and agriculture inviable, so the region has suffered few direct effects of European settlement.

    Great Victoria desert 2008

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