For these reasons, a publicly financed reparations program based on ancestry is not sustainable politically.

The Soviet state was by then heavily promoting a politically sustainable style of art called Social Realism-a style Malevich had spent his entire career repudiating.

"But then the question becomes whether that is politically sustainable when it starts hurting the economy and people lose jobs," he said.

Mr. Miller, challenged on the proposed cuts in farm programs, said, "I don't believe the present system is politically sustainable."

No one's listening to those pushing for prisoners' rights, so even the floundering Cameron could judge such a scheme politically sustainable.

At last, the Administration has found a politically sustainable refugee policy.

That would provide time, he said, to "get our own act together on a basis that is not only sound programatically, but sustainable politically."

But the Eurozone will continue down this path as long as it is economically and politically sustainable.

The two main Israeli political parties have begun to sketch out elements of a politically sustainable Israeli bargaining position.

The openness of Europe's own markets to China will not be politically sustainable if this action does not occur.