sustainable - use in sentences

Preposition: into

  • future: They will have brought about change in this community and delivered benefits that are sustainable into the future.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: In order to make the class sustainable the group are looking for more regular participants.

Modifies a noun

  • development: Trade unions at the Earth Summit You may think sustainable development has very little to do with trade unions.
  • agriculture: However, to be sustainable, agriculture must provide the farmer with a living.
  • tourism: Sustainable tourism has in recent years become a vital ingredient in the tourism management curriculum.
  • livelihood: Frontier projects advance field research and implement projects that will help conserve biodiversity and help develop sustainable livelihoods.
  • community: Together we agreed a common approach to creating sustainable communities which we called the Bristol Accord.
  • growth: Its aim is to deliver high quality, sustainable growth in England.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: To keep up we will have to become more sustainable in the way we run our work and home lives.
  • make: The project was made more sustainable by teachers being involved from all 4 middle schools and the high school.
  • enable: These competencies help clients enable sustainable, long-term and cost-effective compliance strategies that can also improve overall process value and effectiveness.

Modifying Another Word

  • environmentally: Finally, the well-being economy would be environmentally sustainable.
  • ecologically: Research and ecologically sustainable development: 'How will we know what we want to know?
  • financially: Some outcomes will be financial, i.e. an organization cannot be assured of achieving other outcomes if it is not financially sustainable.
  • genuinely: LSPs must be capable of balancing and integrating economic, social and environmental goals to deliver genuinely sustainable communities.
  • truly: Is the Thames Gateway project an appropriate flagship scheme for a truly sustainable plan for a city of the future?
  • neither: Large numbers of people moving around the globe, and being exploited as a form of cheap labor, is neither sustainable nor fair.

Preposition: in

  • term: And it can help you to ensure that your work is sustainable in the long term.
  • way: To keep up we will have to become more sustainable in the way we run our work and home lives.

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