sustainable solution

collocation in English

meaningsofsustainableandsolution

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sustainable
adjective
uk
/səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl/us
/səˈsteɪ.nə.bəl/
able to continue over a period ...
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solution
noun
uk
/səˈluː.ʃən/us
/səˈluː.ʃən/
the answer to ...
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(Definition ofsustainableandsolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsustainable solution

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This paper questions the likelihood that increased physical mobility can, by itself, provide a fully viable orsustainablesolutionto mobility-related aspects of social exclusion.
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Although breeding can improve the tolerance of cultivars to salinity and reduced moisture, it is not asustainablesolutionif soils continue to degrade.
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People in the settlement made their livelihoods through informal arrangements to borrow or rent pieces of land from the original inhabitants of the area, but this was nosustainablesolution.
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Direct intervention in commodity markets through price support or stock destruction does not offer asustainablesolution.
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Military solutions alone can never lead to asustainablesolution.
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However, asustainablesolutionto the problem can only be found through the active involvement of citizens in the entire process.
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Football is our national spectator sport, and it is therefore essential to find a long-term,sustainablesolution.
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I think this is the onlysustainablesolutionin the long term.
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Isolation, sanctions or any other forms of boycott would be harmful to talks and negotiations aimed at achieving asustainablesolutionto the conflict.
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This is a sensitive subject to which nosustainablesolutionhas yet been found.
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Asustainablesolutionfor the future also lies in a systematic reduction in the use of chemicals in favour of preventative and other alternative measures.
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The onlysustainablesolutionis for the system to apply to all road transport in the same way right from the start.
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I am convinced that the majority of the population in both countries profoundly desires a peaceful andsustainablesolutionto the conflict.
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There needs to be asustainablesolutionfor access to medicines that includes a revision of the intellectual property agreement itself.
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Asustainablesolutionwill require the acceptance and confidence of the broad mass of the people of the area.
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There is an urgent need to identify asustainablesolutionthrough the application of a waste management plan.
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This is a concrete, convenient andsustainablesolutionto the problems caused to citizens by the increasing price of energy.
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To meet the identified need, the county believed that a new community offered the only satisfactory andsustainablesolution.
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The local planning authority is keen to find asustainablesolution.
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The onlysustainablesolutionis to improve earning opportunities for poor people.
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