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sustainable Adjective

— If something is sustainable, it can be continued for a long time, especially without using up resources. The oil-based lifestyle of today is not sustainable. The government is trying to balance sustainable development with economic growth.

sustainable

— adjective capable of being sustained

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supportable lasting enduring constant bearable viable unfluctuating unbreakable unalterable tolerant tolerable tenacious sustained sure-footed sturdy strong steady standing staid stable stabile solid serviceable secure running resistant repellent persistent permissible permanent long-lasting long justified justifiable invulnerable indissoluble indelible hardy for a long time firm ecological earth-friendly durable changeless boisterous abiding

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Sarkozy defended a model of sustainable growth.

What kind of social contract will enable the sustainable development of our community? What kind of development model is best suited for this purpose?

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Clearly some slowing in the pace of spending was necessary If the economy was to progress in a balanced and sustainable growth.

We need a sustainable society. One in which our needs are being satisfied without diminishing the possibilities of the next generation.

Permaculture as practiced by the Holzers on the slope of the cold Longau valley shows that the sustainable future need not be a dream.

The defence field is down to minimum sustainable strength.

Clearly some slowing in the pace of spending was necessary, if the economy was to progress along balanced and sustainable growth.

Sustainable development is impossible without fairer distribution amongst all nations.

This level of consumption is simply not sustainable.

Unless we can make carpets sustainably you know perhaps we don't have a place in a sustainable world but neither does anybody else making products unsustainably.

There is not an industrial company on earth, not an institution of any kind, not mine, not yours, not anyone's, that is sustainable.

The answer to the world's sustainable food future is in recycling.

The force field holding back the ocean has collapsed to minimum sustainable levels.

All that fucking shit about democratic companies and sustainable development.

But throughout the galaxy, hives continue to wake in far greater numbers than are sustainable and with a hunger that is most pressing.

How can a money system that can only function with perpetually accelerating growth be used to build a sustainable economy?

We only had one rule, everyone had to pledge to cooperate in creating a nonviolent and sustainable community.

There's a sustainable atmosphere.

What needs to be changed to allow the creation of a sustainable economy?

However, in trying to envision a sustainable future, it is very clear that the charging of interest is both a moral and a practical problem.

But will our pivotal generation create a sustainable world in time?

The question is: How can we use our understanding of science and technology along with our understanding of culture and how culture changes to create a culture that will interact with science and with the world around us in a sustainable fashion?

Well, you know, the interesting thing about sustainable design is that I don't think it has to look in any particular way.

And that they could contribute that pixel to that mosaic knowing that in the end that incredibly beautiful image was a sustainable future.

Now, millions of people have responded to ecological destruction and have created the groundwork for a sustainable and just world.

This poor frog a sustainable manner.

EC Directive on Sustainable Packaging.

If Saudi Arabia has now exceeded their sustainable peak supply, then I would argue with some clarity that the World has now exceeded sustainable peak supply.

For this and many other reasons, our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable.

Sustainable agriculture.

I'm an industrial designer and a social engineer. I'm very much interested in society and developing a system that might be sustainable, for all people.

Nothing produced in our profit based society is even remotely sustainable or efficient.

It's time to claim the unity our outmoded social systems have broken apart, and work together to create a sustainable, global society, where everyone is taken care of and everyone is truly free.

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Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.

Moreover, the alternatives to nuclear energy - and to fossil fuels - are well known and technically much more advanced and sustainable.

The signatories agreed to conserve biological diversity, by saving species and their habitats, and to use biological resources (e.g., forests) in a sustainable manner.

As we enter a new era of sustainable development, impunity must turn to responsibility.

Many major companies, including in the oil industry, have expressed their readiness to support sustainable development goals.

From now on, sustainable development must not be a mere slogan, but rather an operational approach to global governance and well-being on a strained and crowded planet.

Both factors challenge us to define, in the longer term, more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.

These rules must eventually be restored intact if Europe is to return to the path of sustainable growth, and a consensus will need to be forged now to make that happen.

In other words, US foreign policy spending is thirty times more focused on the military than on building global prosperity, global public health, and a sustainable environment.

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, America committed itself to protect global ecosystems, yet little has been seen or heard from US policy makers on this issue since then.

Only better-informed foreign policies that can address the genuine anxieties of civilizations in crisis will yield more sustainable results.

Forced eradication risks pushing farmers into the hands of extremists, and thus will not lead to the sustainable reduction of opium fields.

Farmers will be weaned off opium over the long term only if they have sustainable livelihoods.

Spent wisely, however, these stimulus packages could trigger far-reaching and transformational trends, setting the stage for a more sustainable, urgently needed Green Economy for the twenty-first century.

More such spending will not return these countries to a sustainable growth path.

Deep cuts in social expenditure are also unavoidable in order to achieve sustainable public finances.

The 1976 plan called for sustainable logging and basic forest-fire control, but war intervened, costing Afghanistan half its forest cover.

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