The word "sounder" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something that is more sensible or better informed. For example, "I think Jenny's opinion on the matter is much sounder than John's."
The Central Americans displayed a sounder structure, with the wing-backs helping the three centre-backs and the midfield providing protection too, and Mora suggested that he bore no ill-effects from his torment in Elche by producing a phenomenal one-handed save to deny Erin Vandenbergh early on.
But before coughing up bail-out funds, these creditors demand reforms and budget cuts to place the Greek economy on a sounder long-term footing.
Beatrix will leave the monarchy sounder than when she acceded.
Hungary has a rule that limits spending growth, the source of past indiscipline.There is some evidence that countries with fiscal rules have sounder public finances, though it is tricky to separate cause from effect.
Some economies will inevitably stumble over the coming years, but, thanks to sounder policies, most can look forward to rapid long-term growth (see article).
With repairs and sounder management, the thinking went, they ought to turn a decent profit.In fact the investments turned out to be shrewder than anyone could have expected.
Amid talk of another chemical-industry downturn, many say that rivals such as America's Du Pont and Britain's ICI (see box on next page) are sounder investments.Is the turnaround at BASF and Bayer as incomplete as Hoechst's appears to be? BASF, which has the smallest drug division of the three sisters, has the advantage of having so far been seen as the ugliest.
And there is a host of microeconomic ideas, such as tax breaks for research and development, designed to promote investment.On this doctrinal question, Lord Lawson may prove the sounder judge.
Add in employment in related trades, such as estate agencies, mortgage brokers and banks, and the housing boom was supporting perhaps one-fifth of Irish jobs.It seemed easier to make money speculating in second homes or commercial property than in sounder ventures.
Thanks to wide-ranging structural reforms and sounder monetary and fiscal policies, Australia's economy has recently been one of the best performers in the world.
Mr Bhidé of Columbia University calls for a return to "more primitive finance", with deposit-taking banks strictly regulated and strictly separated from the more innovative, risky financial firms, to avoid a repeat of the recent contagion.Main Street will recover only when America's finances are on a sounder footing.
