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How to use the word unsustainable in a Sentence?

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The reality is that giving up your salary for a year or two to run for Congress is unsustainable for most working people.

Grechen Shirley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The writing on the wall couldn’t be any more clear: Social Security and Medicare remain on a dangerously unsustainable path.

Michael Peterson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Without a doubt it is unsustainable, and I stated that two weeks ago. I called on the president to do a decompression strategy. We believe that strategy is working.

Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Davis and her family are very grateful to all of those who donated to her to be able to arrange for travel, by the time Ms. Davis has the procedure she needs next week, she would have carried this unsustainable pregnancy for an additional month and a half.

Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The housing market isn't crashing, but it is experiencing a hangover as it comes down from an unsustainable high.

Taylor Marr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a great initiative because you can help people who can’t make it to pay a bill that in a shameless way has reached unsustainable costs, i myself am paying a (electricity) bill double what I used to.

Luca Menoni

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're on an unsustainable path, debt is not at an unsustainable level, but the path is unsustainable -- meaning it's growing faster than the economy, meaningfully faster than the economy. We have to address that over time. We will address it over time. And the better way to do it is soon.

Federal Reserve

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our legal challenge urges regulators to ensure there is a fair and meaningful process to resolve disputes between health care providers and insurance companies, but if regulators don't follow the letter of the law, patient access to care could be jeopardized as ongoing health plan manipulation creates an unsustainable situation for physicians.

Gerald Harmon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are scrounging, buying one or two gallons of gas at a time, it's completely unsustainable. I am extremely frustrated.

Kedner Pierre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are currently seeing clear signs of unsustainable mortgage lending on the one hand and heightened risks of a price correction on the other.

Vice Chairman Fritz Zurbruegg

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

In the over-50s, in our vulnerable populations, we have 90 % to 95 % fully vaccinated. And that's making a really big difference. So we do have a lot of hospitalizations, but it's nowhere near as high as it could be, and if Christina Pagel look at places like Florida, which is seeing unsustainable hospitalizations, this is because they have a higher number of people who are still vulnerable, so even though they have high vaccination rates overall, it's not helping them as much because of how its distributed in their population.

Christina Pagel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

President Joe Biden and Washington Democrats are leading our nation down an unsustainable path with their failed economic policies and reckless spending. Americans deserve better, the Democrats’ spending addiction has created an inflation crisis and their solution is to spend more and tax more.

Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We believe the strength of the housing market is excessive relative to the economic fundamentals, and the level of prices increases will ultimately prove unsustainable.

Robert Gardner

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

[ Last ] week demonstrated that unsustainable excess in one small part of the market has the potential to tip a row of dominoes and create broader turmoil.

David Kostin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Unsustainable debt levels are a major obstacle, it was made worse by the pandemic - substantially worse, both in terms of domestic and external debt burdens.

World Bank

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government’s involvement at all.

Lew Rockwell

added by Normando
3 years ago

The entire global demand for these products has swelled to an unsustainable level at this point.

Gary Bissig

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is obvious that the status quo is unsustainable, this (escalation) was not unpredictable, nor a one-time event, they have basically said, this is what it is. We have occupied. But this isnt disputed territory this is, by the law, part of Azerbaijan.

Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When prices go up in a way that gets people concerned the market is overdone and you have rising volatility and rising prices, that's typically unsustainable and you do get a correction.

Jim Bianco

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At a time when Iran is reportedly offering the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, the international community shouldnt be rewarding Tehran for its bad behavior, the U.N. Security Council is undermining its mission to maintain international peace and security. And Europe wants to have it both ways, expressing concern about its major implications for regional security while doing everything it can to preserve the JCPOA. Europes policy is unsustainable, and dismisses the concerns of those most impacted by the arms embargos expiration in the region namely the Gulf Cooperation Council and Israel.

Dan Rosenbaum/British

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The fact that we are three months down the line and we have 400,000 seafarers in need of crew change is completely unsustainable.

Guy Platten

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are ready to reopen, but if tourists do not come back, if borders are not reopened, and if hotels do not fill up, the costs of running a restaurant will be unsustainable.

Salvatore Parisi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If it did happen that the epidemic was raging ... then in that situation the election date could turn out to be unsustainable, but I am counting on it that we will be able to calmly hold these elections.

Andrzej Duda

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Mnangagwa's austerity measures and the accompanying (impoverishment)... of most Zimbabweans makes many feel they were better off under Mugabe, but the former president had set the country on a unsustainable course that at some point was going to crash, mnangagwa to a large extent inherited a poisoned chalice, but one that he bears partial responsibility for.

Crisis Group senior consultant

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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