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unviable

/ ʌnˈvaɪəbəl /

adjective

  1. not capable of succeeding, esp financially

    the pit had proved economically unviable

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Has this row made the government's intended diplomatic and economic approach to China politically unviable - is a hardening of the UK's stance now inevitable?

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The additional suggestion of spending cuts by Reeves is intriguing - many Labour MPs believe that spending cuts in most areas would be politically unviable after the failed attempts at welfare cuts earlier this year, although the government could promise to cut spending in four or five years.

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It’s an indictment of France’s political class that something so modest is proving to be politically unviable.

"If the farmer starts charging too much for land and the developer has to bear high structural costs, then it becomes unviable," he says.

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The firms have previously said the trade agreement had made their businesses "commercially unviable".

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