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  • There was no viable response, Langdon knew.†   (source)
  • To be viable, soil needs 40 liters of water per cubic meter.†   (source)
  • How many of the ones left do you think are still viable Candidates?†   (source)
  • The only viable profit-seeking concern on South Beach— other than the Imadas' strawberry enterprise—was Tom Peck's Great American Blue Fox Farm.†   (source)
  • It looked like id—had no viable relatives.†   (source)
  • By seventh grade, there were kids like Drew and Matt Royston who were taller than the teachers and had deep voices and were shaving; but there were also kids like Peter, who prayed every night that puberty would hit but hadn't seen any viable signs yet.†   (source)
  • Cinder suspected that the android would have to be wiped and reprogrammed, but she had a feeling that wasn't a viable option.†   (source)
  • But a viable die-able age.†   (source)
  • In a thousand ways, our planet might not be viable for their bodies.†   (source)
  • No, but from the way you keep bringing up the Holiday Inn, like it's a viable choice, I'm hearing you say that's what you prefer to do.†   (source)
  • Or make up some viable defense for the decisions I've made over the last couple of days.†   (source)
  • Just got to keep on keeping on, that's what Mama Mo says, and when she says it—her sureness, each word emphasized, as if it really were a viable life strategy—the cliche stops being a set of words and turns into something real.†   (source)
  • Although Ramiro has gained a much more viable perspective on his place in the world, there are choices he has to make "not just once, but every time they come up."†   (source)
  • We had sworn to keep the pregnancy a secret until we were confident the fetus was viable and beyond the risk of miscarriage, but on this front neither of us did well.†   (source)
  • Jai's health and the viability of our baby were at great risk.†   (source)
  • The Somalis used things until they were no longer mechanically viable.†   (source)
  • We have to give the Italians time to accept the other options as viable without offending them.†   (source)
  • Hegel ...the reasonable is that which is viable Hilde let the big ring binder fall to the floor with a heavy thud.†   (source)
  • Demon poisonings are common, but since it was a Greater Demon, Hodge isn't sure if the antidotes he usually employs will be viable.†   (source)
  • He saw how the defense had lined up and made a pre-snap decision about the viability of his primary receiver.†   (source)
  • They'll be able to operate far enough off your coast that your government will have no viable legal reason to object to whatever they do.†   (source)
  • Further, despite her other medical problems, she was still a viable candidate for a hemispherectomy.†   (source)
  • As with Nasuada, I think you made the only viable choice.†   (source)
  • They wanted to know two things: Were the crops viable as foodstuffs?†   (source)
  • A median-viable planet with a low active-photosynthesis range.†   (source)
  • Whatever it was, maybe gas, maybe God, I took it as a plea from the life growing viable inside me.†   (source)
  • That was not a viable option, however; rotting potatoes can damage the land.†   (source)
  • The outstations in Kunar and across Afghanistan were intelligence depots for the surrounding areas, with operators ascertaining the viability of targets in their sectors, to judge if a certain reportedly "bad guy" really was a bad guy, and if so, how bad.†   (source)
  • It was just that I had never considered that option viable, ultimate betrayal that it was to every soul on this planet.†   (source)
  • They are investigating, and assure Fox News that they have several viable leads.†   (source)
  • If there were any viable liver cells left, they were showing no signs of recovering.†   (source)
  • Prusias keeps the Workshop viable despite Astaroth's disdain for technology.†   (source)
  • But once you were a viable embryo, she was locked out of the process.†   (source)
  • He worried about his mother's options in the area and wondered how he could help support her until she landed something viable.†   (source)
  • In the end they would agree because they all knew they had no viable alternative.†   (source)
  • Whoopi Goldberg herself said that such racial elision is increasingly the norm in American youth culture: "Eminem is a viable strong male character, who is white and black.†   (source)
  • The blood looked no thinner; it looked mutely viable.†   (source)
  • Decisions of life and death that were once a part of their fabric, brought back by a force that could serve causes they refused to admit were no longer viable.†   (source)
  • The Spanish government would be obligated to provide each emancipado with a Christian education and apprenticeship to a viable trade.†   (source)
  • I did not believe that guerrilla warfare was a viable option at that stage.†   (source)
  • He smiled, thinking she was the only woman who could make a viable stab at dignity while on her hands and knees in a tent, without a stitch on.†   (source)
  • She would have to comb the neighborhood, ask questions that were unlikely to receive any sort of viable answers.†   (source)
  • Since wearing nothing isn't really a viable option, I'm back to square one.†   (source)
  • The drug angle in my mind is more viable to explain all this than the coal angle.†   (source)
  • My earlier plan to get the stats and eavesdrop for quotes first period Monday was still viable and even more attractive than it had been on the bus.†   (source)
  • He came up with a viable business plan, but the banks laughed him out the door.†   (source)
  • Gabriel was willing to accept territorial compromises in order to secure a lasting and viable peace with the Palestinians and the broader Arab world, but privately he regarded the Western Wall as nonnegotiable.†   (source)
  • You don't understand the humiliation of it —to be tricked out of the single assumption which makes our existence viable-that somebody is watching.... The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves, stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well.†   (source)
  • Now, just for the sake of playing games, I see the alternatives as either a successful integration of all this material or the achievement of a viable schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • The Congressman's ideas were no longer viable, his faith was as empty and dead as his estate, yet they'd left their mark on Will Hodge Jr as on all of them.†   (source)
  • Yamacraw seemed like a viable alternative.†   (source)
  • He pulled on a pair of heavy insulated gloves and opened the walk-in freezer marked contents viable biological maintain —10°c minimum.†   (source)
  • But he still had no viable explanation as to how such an evolution had occurred.†   (source)
  • If there was a viable alternative, they would stop.†   (source)
  • We're telling you now because we finally have communication with him and a viable rescue plan.†   (source)
  • I would live here at Beale Memorial Library, if it were any kind of viable option.†   (source)
  • Nobody in here with viable ovaries either, you can see what kind of problems it would cause.†   (source)
  • We soon had high viability—almost 100 percent of the cells survived.†   (source)
  • At twenty-one weeks, a baby is barely viable.†   (source)
  • For such an offense to be viable, lots of people need to go out for a pass.†   (source)
  • The dirt is only viable soil because of the bacteria growing in it.†   (source)
  • Not old, not young, but a viable, die-able age.†   (source)
  • There's still no water to make it viable, but I have some ideas.†   (source)
  • If cardiac death had occurred, the organs wouldn't be viable for transplant.†   (source)
  • It was not simply beyond belief, it made the true suspension of disbelief frighteningly viable.†   (source)
  • As Alan described it, it began to seem like a very viable idea.†   (source)
  • We don't know, medically, if this is viable.†   (source)
  • And if that happens, organ donation isn't viable.†   (source)
  • There was fear about the viability of Emaar, the development company.†   (source)
  • What one person sees as a medically viable stroke of luck, another might see as a resurrection.†   (source)
  • You're the one who said Shay's heart might not be a viable match.†   (source)
  • "As for the rest of my inside information," Sato said, "the Patriot Act gives me the right to place a wiretap on the phone of anyone I consider a viable threat to national security.†   (source)
  • In order to prove antimatter efficient and viable, one had to create specimens of a larger magnitude.†   (source)
  • I have viable ovaries.†   (source)
  • The specimen that was supposed to prove antimatter was a safe and viable energy source had been stolen.†   (source)
  • The reasonable is that which is viable.†   (source)
  • The baby was fully viable now.†   (source)
  • Although he had not performed any himself, he knew of two successful hemispherectomies and was convinced that they were viable surgical options.†   (source)
  • These young people need a strong economic foundation, a viable future — if you're not addressing this, then you're not serious about solving anything.†   (source)
  • Now that the Seat-Up Policy was firmly in place (and thus, by definition, the Lid-Up Policy, too), I needed to offer Marley a viable alternative to that attractive porcelain pool of water just begging him to play submarine with his snout.†   (source)
  • Surgeons had recorded so few cases of full functional recovery that most doctors wouldn't consider a hemispherectomy as viable.†   (source)
  • But a viable die-able age.†   (source)
  • However, the side effects and mortality associated with the surgery were so great that hemispherectomy quickly fell out of favor as a viable surgical option.†   (source)
  • A viable die-able age.†   (source)
  • To do what we call viability testing, I approached Dr. Michael Colvin, a biochemist in the oncology lab, and he sent me to another biochemist, Dr. John Hilton.†   (source)
  • Okay, not really viable options, but kind of fun to think about, when they go on and on about cartoons and snacks and When is Mommy coming back?†   (source)
  • Then he had to stop wasting time considering options that were impossibilities for him and focus on those that might be viable solutions, however unlikely.†   (source)
  • It was an outlandish concept, fraught with danger and uncertainty, but it was the only viable path, given the circumstances.†   (source)
  • Out of hundreds of genetic experiments, only we and the Erasers had been at all viable—as far as I knew.†   (source)
  • Carlos could never let go of his lost faith; he consistently used it as a viable cover, but it was much more than that.†   (source)
  • Rumors have been filtering into the intelligence community for years about a hidden lab producing viable recombinant life-forms.†   (source)
  • Shapley, Merrow, and others have calculated the number of viable planetary systems in the near universe.†   (source)
  • We talked late into the night and it almost felt good being home, sharing a bed with someone I cared about, and who cared about me, someone I could gush to about Ethan, someone eager to hear that forever love wasn't just an invention of romance authors and fairy tales, but something vital and viable.†   (source)
  • Every schoolboy knew that dinosaurs had outgrown themselves, had become too large and ponderous to be viable.†   (source)
  • Ironically, her own genetic engineering, designed to keep the vaccine viable for long periods without contacting any host or moisture, had allowed the inert vaccine to mutate in such adverse conditions.†   (source)
  • So when I started asking about it you just pulled out the report and we stopped thinking about the Bunker as a viable target.†   (source)
  • Not only had she been unable to discover a single viable motive, she'd found no one who hadn't adored the victim.†   (source)
  • That position simply isn't viable.†   (source)
  • Leavitt himself suggested the analogy of the upper atmosphere and the depths of the sea as equally inhospitable environments, but equally viable.†   (source)
  • These bacteria were still viable.†   (source)
  • I wondered whether remaking him in the image of a viable plaintiff said more about who he was willing to be, or whom I had become.†   (source)
  • You have just dispensed with the 'viable schizophrenia' you conjured up, and you have now switched over to its pulling through and becoming fully autonomous.†   (source)
  • To do so by selecting what you arbitrarily think are outstanding examples— whatever dogs happen to catch your fancy—and crossing them into your line will only result in a jumble, and might well create unhealthy or unviable offspring.   (source)
    unviable = not capable of surviving
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unviable means not and reverses the meaning of viable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Virtually all of them had been unsuccessful, or "nonviable," as the whitecoats said.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonviable means not and reverses the meaning of viable. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • But these days he has become unviable.†   (source)
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