Uneconomic

Some would result from the ability of a number of foreign companies, currently forced by the tariff to maintain uneconomic manufacturing facilities here, to close down their plants, leaving the remainder far better placed to achieve competitive production. ❋ Unknown (1963)

He believed the terms uneconomic and therefore unsound, but it was worth taking a chance on interpretation, a desperate venture perhaps, but anything to stop the blare and bicker of the council table and start the work of reconstruction. ❋ Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1918)

All farms rated below £4, and a large number of those below £15, may be regarded as "uneconomic" -- that is, incapable by themselves of supplying ❋ Erskine Childers (1896)

It is these fees which tilt the balance and make the whole process of on-farm anaerobic digestion uneconomic, which is why there are so few plants in the UK compared with the continent. ❋ Richard (2008)

The Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for signature at the Earth Summit, and made a start towards redefinition of money supply measures that did not inherently encourage destruction of natural ecoregions and so-called uneconomic growth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is what Herman Daly refers to as uneconomic growth ', or "growth that increases costs faster than benefits, thereby making us poorer." ❋ Jeremy (2010)

'uneconomic' - and hence my dad had been given a lump sum to tie him over. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That sounds somewhat compatible with Caplan's suggestion of a "council of economists" to rule certain laws "uneconomic". ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition, De Alwis said Sigma was renegotiating terms with major customers to adjust "uneconomic" contracts. ❋ Neil Sands (2010)

All future projects would become "uneconomic," under the new bill, Mr. Ward said, and "companies will be unwilling to invest in Nigeria." ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the other hand, ExxonMobil executives call investing in clean renewable energies "uneconomic" and have said that America just needs to accept its oil dependence rather than take "expensive" steps to solve it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the heart of the problem is a Labour government diktat which tells local authorities to close down their smaller "uneconomic" schools, many of which have surplus places, as a result of short-term demographic factors. ❋ Richard (2008)

Without a subsidy, as the British Wind Energy Association pointed out, the industry would become so "uneconomic" that investment would dry up. ❋ Richard (2007)

If the new Congested Districts Board attempts to handle some millions 'worth of land in a hurry, one of two things must happen, either their work will be indefinitely delayed, or else they will sell off "uneconomic" holdings without amending their defects. ❋ Various (N/A)

A select committee of the House of Commons, so long ago as in 1878 (No. 249, pp. 4 and 5), when Disraeli was Prime Minister, had recommended that a properly constituted body should be empowered to purchase, not single farms, but whole estates, and to re-sell them after amalgamating, enlarging, and re-distributing what are now called "uneconomic" holdings. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hence to say that that without which society could not endure in its present form is "uneconomic" is to make the word itself altogether meaningless. ❋ United States. Dept. Of Defense (N/A)