Thanks to Japanese car producers, American manufacturers learned to produce more efficiently and competitively.

It is in a country s interest to lower its import barriers so that it has cheaper access to goods and services that it cannot produce competitively.

There are no viable alternatives.

To achieve this, viable instruments are needed.

Viable and integrated development of rural areas

For example, the US wage insurance program is confined to manufacturing workers over age 50 who are in competitively vulnerable industries and are deemed by the Secretary of Labor to have nontransferable skills.

A viable future means security as well as bread.

This vision is unattainable without a viable Palestinian territory.

In most developing countries, financial service providers are not yet in a position to use modern credit risk management techniques to assess borrowers' risk and thus competitively provide capital, particularly trade finance, to enterprises.

The following section proposes some elements of a pro poor development policy framework to help guide the PA in forming a viable economy for a viable State.

Without a viable legal system, foreign investment will remain elusive.

The emergence of viable political parties requires a strong parliament.

We lack the factors required for a viable manufacturing base.

The won has been devalued sharply, making exports more viable.

This is no small challenge, but there is no viable alternative.

Neat binary concepts like peacetime and wartime are no longer viable.

Impunity for perpetrators of mass atrocities is not a viable option.

There are other viable alternatives, one of which is the German model.

This arrangement has often been criticized, but is there any viable alternative?

And public private partnerships between drug developers, basic researchers, and patient groups that share information pre competitively (that is, with no or limited patent filings) are an increasingly popular way to translate scientific findings into potentially meaningful clinical benefits.

NEW YORK Whether the eurozone is viable or not remains an open question.

To many of them, sea travel remains the only viable means of transportation.

The trouble is that they do not seem to have a viable alternative.

A viable international financial system requires a mechanism to keep imbalances in check.

Today, the most viable alternative to China s political status quo is left Confucianism.

Leaving the Treaty must not be considered a viable or consequence free option.

In building a viable roster of qualified candidates, various contingencies must be considered.

(a) A viable alternative for farmers to producing food and to buying energy

Gasoline mileage is sufficiently enhanced to make the hybrid commercially viable, and gasoline saving vehicles will become even more commercially viable when consumers are taxed for the carbon dioxide they emit from their vehicles.

And my colleagues kind of think I'm crazy, but I think it's very viable.

A bank without a viable business model does not shrink gradually and then disappear.

Above all, such a system is neither viable nor sustainable in the long run.

Business as usual is no longer a viable approach for South African foreign policy.

The third possibility, a bond offering, is considered viable for the reasons explained below.

Aid without trade cannot be a viable proposition for small island States like Dominica.

For a viable verification regime, suitable and sufficient verification evidence needs to be available.

A viable resistance management strategy is to rotate the use of different effective insecticides.

Decide to improve access to reliable, affordable, economically viable and environmentally sound energy services

Viable transport links are further restricted during the rainy season, from May to November.

The international community has at its disposal a wealth of practical and viable proposals.

But reliance on cheap central bank (re)financing does not represent a viable business model.

A viable Russia policy for Europe must recognize Europe s growing dependence on Russian energy resources.

For starters, it tests whether the 43 year old Non Proliferation Treaty is still viable.

Little in America s domestic policy debates hints at a viable growth and employment oriented strategy.

Viable alternatives must be provided to dryland people to maintain their livelihoods without causing desertification.