Sentence examples for make workable from inspiring English sources

Many made noise, some made trouble, and a few, sometimes too few, sought to make workable policy – notably, and laudably, the minister for higher education, David Willetts, and, in more circumspect ways, some of his predecessors.

Andy Carl Executive director, Conciliation Resources The Guardian is spot on in focusing on the humanity of desperate people trying to flee to the UK to make workable lives for themselves in safety.

I'd like to have one even if it didn't make workable film.

Be open to make workable solutions without compromising on basics.

Foot controls are made workable by hands with special poles.

But Senate staffers have raised doubt about whether such a requirement could be made workable.

It's one of those "she's messy, he's neat" relationships made workable by built-ins, closets and tolerance.

He also embarked on Star Wars, the wildly expensive Strategic Defence Initiative, which has still not been made workable after an investment of $50bn.

In fact, the latter analogy might prove apt, with hydrogen fuel cells resembling the Apollo rockets, as an impressive technology that was made workable and repeatedly demonstrated, but not capable of making major inroads into general use.

Mr. Witt himself, although he found numerous deficiencies, stopped well short of saying the plans could not be made workable, and also said that there was more to coping with an emergency than planning.

But an uneasy fact remains: that building on the site of a global event – making workable streets from tarmac wastes and weaving housing around velodromes – is a difficult and expensive way of producing a good city.