"The government remains open only because the governor authorized more than $1bn in onerous and unsustainable emergency liquidity actions.
However, the existence and function of Qanats in arid and semi-arid areas of Iran is constrained and menaced by unsustainable policies and actions, massive usage of wells and pumps, construction of dams, and especially the depletion of underground water reserves (Ibrion et al. 2014).
However that attitude is in itself as unsustainable as the actions that it will precipitate.
To tackle unsustainable consumption patterns, action models promoting households' environmental sustainability were developed and piloted in Finland.
The biomedical research enterprise in the US has become unsustainable and urgent action is needed to address a variety of problems, including a lack of innovation, an over-reliance on soft money for faculty salaries, the use of graduate students as a source of cheap labour, and a 'holding tank' full of talented postdocs with limited career opportunities.
With rail fares set to rise 6.2% in January, and with rail unions and passenger groups participating in a day of action against unsustainable above-inflation rises, Guardian readers debated the future of the railways with many feeling increasingly priced off the network.
The head of media regulator Ofcom today issued a stark warning about the dire state of commercially funded regional TV news across the UK, admitting the current ITV service is unsustainable and that urgent action is needed to find an alternative.
It means that the current pattern of activity is unsustainable, and it requires fairly drastic public action on a worldwide scale.
For his part Lawson, who in 1987 controlled UK base rates, made three separate half-point cuts before the end of 1987 – and while some economists have questioned whether those moves contributed to the unsustainable "Lawson Boom", others viewed his actions as restraint.
In the end, the greatest threat to the Lords may not be the opposition to the principle of an unelected house but the misjudgments of those on both sides of the partisan divide who share an interest in keeping the unelected system alive but whose actions make it unsustainable.
