sustainability 可持续性。可持续性发展。
sustainability[ noun ]
the property of being sustainable
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- In such a scenario, the domestic financial markets would be a perpetual hostage to the threat of balance-of-payments crises and investment would remain depressed because of uncertainty about both the sustainability of demand and the cost of capital.
- "We'll have a readiness and sustainability slump worse than anything we saw in the Carter years," he predicts.
- Unfortunately, it is not the one upon which the sustainability of the British public finances depends. Lower tax revenues The automatic effects on the budget of the recent decline in UK output are quite well understood.
- When May sugar became the prompt position at the end of March it was trading at a discount to July of 13 cents. There were doubts in the world sugar market, however, about the sustainability of the recent price upsurge.
- The rapid plunge in the price of sovereign debt and Brady bonds in February and March has raised questions in the minds of some economists about the sustainability of the region's current account deficits.
- In fact, the World Bank itself concluded in March 1990 that "adjustment lending appeared to have been relatively less successful in sub-Saharan Africa." Even in Ghana and Tanzania, however, the sustainability of economic reform is under question.
- Congress is likely to question a budget that "shaves the edges of readiness and sustainability," Adams said.
- But at some stage next year the sustainability of the state borrowing spree will come under serious question.
- If there are emotive local issues - as with water in the west country - the party will change the emphasis of its message. Mr Clement-Jones says environmental sustainability is one of the 'strands' in all key Liberal Democrat policies.
- In the medium term, the sustainability of inflows will depend heavily on economic performance.
- A start was made on lowering the tariff walls that protect domestic industry. Now, it seems, confidence in the sustainability of this little revolution is beginning to ebb.
- At its purest, the notion of 'sustainability' amounts to a plea for conservation for its own sake, be it of whales or of particular habitats, like rainforests.
- Though the "sustainability" of the improvement is uncertain, "the December numbers may suggest that 1987 will come off with a roar instead of the whimper many people predicted," Mr. Kubiak added.