"make viable" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to make something capable of succeeding or functioning effectively. Example: The company implemented new strategies to make their business more viable in the competitive market.
A tribal council is a popular but difficult option for the "nation builders" to make viable.
Most home owners want to be able to tackle the annoying small jobs that even handymen struggle to make viable.
The budget subsidiary concept is simply to cut costs and make viable routes that would otherwise be unprofitable.
Times about the future possibilities to transplant ovaries from aborted fetuses into infertile women who do not make viable eggs of their own.
And in the Rockies, another source of untapped gas, additional pipelines would be needed to make viable the administration's plans for a surge of exploration.
Brownfield developments have too often resulted in lifeless dormitory blocks: clone-town apartments built without the social infrastructure of the corner shops, doctors' surgeries, pubs and primary schools needed to make viable places to live.
"The company can be made viable," Mr. Freeman said in an interview yesterday.
For one thing, even if cellulosic ethanol can be made viable, that feat remains years away.
"But you do have families that are making viable communities and carving out a niche for themselves".
He said the Scottish pound, made viable by the country's strong exports and North Sea oil, would be pegged to sterling for five years before floating.
Roulette machines were made viable for bookmakers by the 2001 Treasury pact and provided an unexpected eight-year gold rush for William Hill and others.
