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  • adjective Not capable of living or developing.
  • adjective Not workable or practicable.

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  • adjective Not viable: not capable of independent life; not practicable.

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  • adjective not capable of living or developing successfully

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Examples

  • It's remarkably easy to have a low infant-mortality rate when you claim that half of the dead babies you see were "nonviable" and don't count in the statistics.

    Rescission Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • He was speaking after a person at Andes Petroleum Ecuador Ltd., owned by China Petrochemical Corp. and China National Petroleum Corp., said the October levy had made their business in the South American country "nonviable" and that the company may seek arbitration if a negotiated solution cannot be found.

    Ecuador Eschews Chinese Protest on Oil Tax 2007

  • [11] The economic argument that an independent Palestinian state would be "nonviable" is a mysterious one.

    The Jewish State in Question Avishai, Bernard 1975

  • He recommended allowing "nonviable" institutions to fail and placing them into "negotiated conservatorship" which would reorganize their operations and dispose of problem assets, replacing management and wiping out shareholders.

    Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage 2009

  • What if by doing this that 'nonviable' candidate ended up with, lets 'say 15% of total votes?

    Dandelion Salad 2009

  • The behind the scenes drama between the first and second votes is a chess match, with blocs of "nonviable" voters extracting concessions in exchange for their votes for viable candidates. "

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2008 2008

  • This approach, including accounting and regulatory forbearance, guarantees, and implicit public support stalls addressing nonviable banks and nonperforming assets.

    Stijn Claessens: Root Causes of Financial Crisis Remain Unaddressed Stijn Claessens 2011

  • Diagnose the problem to learn about the viability of financial institutions and support only those that are viable, and close or restructure the nonviable ones.

    Stijn Claessens: Root Causes of Financial Crisis Remain Unaddressed Stijn Claessens 2011

  • This approach, including accounting and regulatory forbearance, guarantees, and implicit public support stalls addressing nonviable banks and nonperforming assets.

    Stijn Claessens: Root Causes of Financial Crisis Remain Unaddressed Stijn Claessens 2011

  • Communism, wrote the historian Martin Malia, was “an intrinsically nonviable, indeed impossible, project from the beginning.”

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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