Only a couple of years ago, home prices rose to clearly unsustainable multiples of income, and the abrupt change could hold out hope for a revival of the housing market.
Second, perhaps more controversially, quantitative arguments have been presented that a cell of typical eukaryotic size and complexity is unsustainable without multiple power-producing organelles such as the mitochondria.
Resource consumption across this large industry has reached unsustainable levels in multiple areas, including energy consumption, material consumption, and emissions.
Multiple promising but unsustainable attempts have been made to maintain programs integrating primary care and public health since the middle of the last century.
Jia wrote to the company's 10,000-plus staff earlier this month warning that the company's growth on multiple new projects was unsustainable.
Furthermore, the environment might be such as to create coping strategies that are undesirable, such as benefit fraud, or unsustainable, such as the building of multiple loans to offset each other.
With the number of patients expected to rise in the coming years, particularly the group with multiple conditions, that is clearly unsustainable.
When fishermen are given a little bit more for the primary species of the 'big five' but multiples for the outlying species, unsustainable behaviours of fishing are reduced.
Such profits should not be given the same "multiple" as nomal profits since they are unsustainable.That has been my case for some time.
In a rural context even a 10-house threshold may lead to multiple infill developments that in combination induce unsustainable strains on village or town services, pressure which is planned for when larger developments are approved.
Although VCs tend to aim for a 10 times multiple, even at this rate it's unsustainable.
