Sentences with 'unsustainable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word unsustainable and other words derived from it.
• « Colbert, the architect of the much more efficient tax systems, repeatedly warned Louis XIV that these wars were financially unsustainable; Louis simply ignored the question of whether he had enough money to wage them. »
• « By 1787, it was clear that the financial situation was simply unsustainable and the monarchy had to secure more revenue, somehow. The king did not know what to do. »
• « The Nazi state poured money into a debt-based recovery from the Great Depression (the recovery economy was totally unsustainable, but the Nazi leadership gambled that the war would come before the inevitable economic collapse). »
• « Unlike the men of the previous generation, Gorbachev was convinced that the status quo was increasingly unsustainable: the Soviet economy was faltering along with little or no growth, the entire education system was based on propaganda masquerading as fact, and the state could barely maintain its spending in the arms race with the United States (especially after US President Ronald Reagan came to power in 1980 and poured resources into the US military). »