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unsustainable

adjective as in not able to be supported in the future

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The university added all but four of its modern language courses had fewer than 10 students on them and they were currently "unsustainable".

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"The current pretence is unsustainable, and seems to put all the burden and blame on the victims," he told the BBC.

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However, there were some of us who knew the method was unsustainable.

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But here’s a possible constructive scenario: In a few months there will be a new Fed chair who will probably attempt to grow the U.S. out of these unsustainable fiscal deficits.

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Yet the OBR says the purpose of its long-term projection is to highlight that the UK's public finances are currently on what it calls an "unsustainable" trajectory.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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