How to Use unviable in a Sentence
unviable
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The mill amassed debts, and the business was deemed unviable.
— Mary Ilyushina and Fred Pleitgen, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021 -
Critics say some of the projects may turn out to be white elephants — unviable pet projects.
— New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022 -
There would be costs: workers at state firms revealed to be unviable would lose their jobs.
— The Economist, 18 Apr. 2018 -
Brandt needed to abort the unviable fetus in order to increase the other twin’s chance of survival.
— Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 22 June 2023 -
But what sustained the community in the 20th century proved unviable in the 21st as milk prices dropped.
— Stephen Castle, New York Times, 11 July 2023 -
Knocking out many of those genes in the flies either made the insects unviable or gave them various defects.
— Hannah Seo, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023 -
What little it’s cobbled together on that front is a mix of the unpopular and the unviable.
— Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2023 -
Chilean law currently allows abortions for three reasons: rape, an unviable fetus, and risk to the life of the mother.
— María Verza and Patricia Luna, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023 -
The hospital has not disposed of any unviable embryos, Liu said.
— Ginger Christ and Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 27 Mar. 2018 -
Ukraine has argued that Russia’s port blockade and launching of missiles from the Black Sea made any shipments unviable.
— The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2022 -
But the policy made the scheme unviable because the open-market dwellings could no longer subsidise the affordable ones, the company says.
— The Economist, 18 July 2019 -
La Liga champions Barcelona have pulled out of the race to sign Eden Hazard after the club deemed the transfer to be 'unviable' this summer, according to reports.
— SI.com, 11 July 2018 -
The new law will legalize abortions when the mother is at risk, when the fetus is unviable or when the pregnancy resulted from rape.
— Susan Franceschet, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2017 -
In fact, the ministry of road transport and highways has already warned that the soaring steel prices are making infrastructure projects unviable.
— Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2021 -
The paucity of charging stations, however, renders this plan unviable — at least for now.
— Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013 -
Over the last two years, despite the city’s approval, the development of a speculative office campus in the Bay Area has become unviable.
— George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024 -
Over a dozen states effectively ban payday loans by imposing tight rate caps that make the business unviable.
— Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2018 -
The loans are already effectively banned in 15 states and the District of Columbia, where interest-rate caps make the business unviable.
— Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017 -
Grape varieties that flourished here for hundreds of years may soon become unviable.
— Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021 -
In Inkster, where 72 percent of residents are black, the school district dissolved six years ago after the state deemed it financially unviable.
— Mitch Smith, New York Times, 15 June 2019 -
Nighttime temperatures of 70 degrees and daytime temps topping 85 degrees will cause the plant to stop blooming, or cause the pollen to become unviable.
— Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017 -
Another was whole, but never hatched; the tumble rendered the embryo unviable.
— Hannah Gavin, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017 -
While other business verticals moved quickly to air freight, the bulk, weight, and size of furniture made that option unviable for most merchants.
— Kaleigh Moore, Forbes, 16 May 2022 -
The wine tariffs doubled or tripled its price and made the Chinese market unviable for exporters, the Australian government had said earlier.
— NBC News, 19 June 2021 -
The 2017 legislative change permitted the procedure in cases of rape, unviable fetuses and to save a mother’s life.
— Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021 -
The result is that Polish women are now required to carry very sick or even unviable fetuses to term — a ruling that in practice drives more women to have abortions abroad.
— Fox News, 28 May 2021 -
This is unsurprising since, during the busiest periods on Ethereum, gas fees can reach hundreds of dollars, making the network unviable for many.
— Taylor Locke, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2022 -
Loosely defined as economically unviable firms that need to borrow to stay alive, an era of cheap money and high-risk investing has fueled the rise of the walking dead in the business world over the past decade.
— Will Daniel, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2022 -
That left the company with a huge global overhang of unviable property leases.
— The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021 -
Flooding in the early 2010s along the Lower Mississippi Delta caused thousands of alligator nests to become unviable.
— David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
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