When interest rates go up, these payments will (when the rate is variable) also go up, possibly becoming unsustainable.

Moreover, fiscal and sovereign debt strains are becoming worse as interest rate spreads for Spain and Italy have returned to their unsustainable peak levels.

Both arrangements will eventually become untenable, because they will generate either an intolerable rate of inflation or an unsustainable burden of public sector debt.

However, the country was forced to withdraw from the system on Black Wednesday (16 September 1992) as Britain's economic performance made the exchange rate unsustainable.

This means extending the maturity dates of debts and reducing the interest rate on the new debt to levels much lower than currently unsustainable market rates.

Unsustainable Development Goals

Rio s Unsustainable Nonsense

Given a lower growth rate, China s fiscal position will deteriorate gradually at first, and then rapidly with the public debt GDP ratio eventually rising to an unsustainable level.

Sustaining the Unsustainable Eurozone

This is always unsustainable.

In the long run, of course, emerging markets will benefit from interest rate normalization, because they will no longer suffer the distortions and imbalances that lead to unsustainable growth patterns.

But this policy is unsustainable.

The situation is clearly unsustainable.

Skeptics worry that the economic progress may not last, arguing that the high growth rate is simply a reflection of loose monetary policy and fiscal stimulus a strategy that inflation will render unsustainable.

The situation in the ministry is unsustainable.

That model, we have learned, is unsustainable.

However, the pressure on staff is unsustainable.

Equally worrying is Africa's unsustainable debt burden.

That way, formal haircuts on the face value of debt can be avoided via new bonds that include only a maturity extension and an interest rate cap that is set below today s unsustainable market rates.

The US budget deficit is enormous and unsustainable.

That pace of employment growth now appears unsustainable.

Asia must leapfrog the unsustainable stage of development.

Unsustainable claims should not be made for it.

Unsustainable development patterns can generate new disaster risks.

They understand that their countries fiscal positions are unsustainable.

But China s rulers know that this situation is unsustainable.

Unstable and unsustainable configurations must come to an end.

The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.

Environmentalists point out that this production method is unsustainable.

The situation became unsustainable and a civil war began.

Unsustainable management practices can also be a contributing factor.

A year ago, most pundits argued that this was unsustainable.

This unsustainable process came to a crashing halt in 2008.

Private and public debt levels are high and possibly unsustainable.

The costs of environmentally unsustainable water use must be quantified.

By contrast, today s road transportation system is inconvenient, unsustainable, and dangerous.

It results in mass unemployment that is inefficient and financially unsustainable.

A one size fits all approach to integration is simply unsustainable.

CAMBRIDGE The United States current fiscal and monetary policies are unsustainable.

Unsustainable processes of development had exerted tremendous pressure on natural resources and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, especially in the industrialized countries, were threatening the fragility of the natural environment.

We can apply this reasoning to the United States unsustainable fiscal deficit.

And, without a return to growth, its debt burden will remain unsustainable.

These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

But it was only a matter of time before that performance became unsustainable.

These countries are overly dependent on demand elsewhere, which in turn is unsustainable.