Kolton opposed the idea of a merger with the New York Stock Exchange while he headed the exchange saying that " two independent, viable exchanges are much more likely to be responsive to new pressures and public needs than a single institution ".

On the other hand the empire was, more or less, defunct in the 4th century BC so it cannot be said that democracy was not viable without it.

In 1979, the title to the landfill was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan, designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut.

Recently browsers have been converging towards the web standards, which has made the design of DHTML games more viable.

The attempt to clone a banteng bull was more successful, as were the attempts to clone mouflon ( a form of wild sheep ), both resulting in viable offspring.

ETC is also a more viable option than other alternatives by definition.

Range was not key criteria for these tasks and it was not always viable for the Heer to move heavy artillery over recently captured territory to bombard fortifications or support ground forces when faster dive-bombers could do the job more quickly.

While conventional apartments are more cost-effective with better amenities, tenants unable to pay first and last month's rent in advance or undesirable to residential landlords due to unemployment, criminal records or credit problems do seek low-end residential motels due to perceived lack of viable short-term options.

Bands or entire tribes occasionally split or merged to form more viable groups in reaction to the pressures of climate, disease and warfare.

" The Kriegsmarine response was rather more restrained but equally focused on pointing out the many difficulties to be surmounted if invading England was to be a viable option.

The analogue of fitness for a quasispecies is the tendency of nearby relatives within the cloud to be well-connected, meaning that more of the mutant descendants will be viable and give rise to further descendants within the cloud.

Their success made the West Coast a viable alternative to New York – produced soap operas, which were becoming more costly to perform.

To make the enforcement of his plan more viable, he began to reconstitute the old Somali police corps, the Corpo Zaptié, as a colonial force.

The Edison patents kept the Bell monopoly viable into the 20th century, by which time the network was more important than the instrument.

In voting systems, tactical voting ( or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting ) occurs, in elections with more than two viable candidates, when a voter supports a candidate other than his or her sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome .< ref >

After the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several rules changes aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport.

A related species, Xenopus tropicalis, is now being promoted as a more viable model for genetics.

Trusted clients are attractive to business as a form of vendor lock-in: sell the trusted client at a loss and charge more than would be otherwise economically viable for the associated service.

Unfortunately, light pollution forced USNO to think of other more viable locations to continue work, and so began a search.

While subsequently acknowledged to be more viable, this model was rejected at the time by London.

The ' Ndrangheta extorts protection money (" pizzo ") from every shop and viable business in town and has more power than the city council in awarding licences to retailers.

Leucotomy was seen by many psychiatrists as no more severe than therapies such as insulin or cardiazol shock ; these apparently successful procedures conceived for the treatment of patients suffering severe mental illnesses helped to create the intellectual climate and medical and social warrants that allowed a surgical procedure as radical and irreversible as leucotomy to appear as a viable and even necessary proposition.

Artificial gasolines and other renewable energy sources currently require more expensive production and processing technologies than conventional petroleum reserves, but may become economically viable in the near future.

Conventional water retention dams can serve this purpose but due to cost, a tailings dam is more viable.

" Post-grunge was a more commercially viable genre that tempered the distorted guitars of grunge with polished, radio-ready production.

A sophisticated process, and additional cost, was required to harvest the crop, and, for Chlorella to be a viable food source, its cellulose cell walls would have to be pulverized.

Since supravital and intravital nature of the staining depends on the dye, a combination of supravital and vital dyes can also be used in a sophisticated way to better classify cells into distinct subsets ( e. g. viable, dead, dying etc.

Again this involves sophisticated energy management systems, incentives, and a viable trading market.

We now have a quite considerable constitutional prize in our grasp, the opportunity to build a really viable Upper House on the basis of a broad consensus of support from all Parties ... ( 19 November 1968, Hansard via L. Windmill ).

4: Shaping viable and desirable futures for a Muslim civilization must involve the active participation of communities and conscious effort at consultation ( shura ) at all levels of society with the aim of achieving a broad consensus ( ijma ).

Skeptics claim that there is a lack of a viable theory of the mechanism behind ESP, and that there are historical cases in which flaws have been discovered in the experimental design of parapsychological studies.

Renormalizability has become an essential criterion for a quantum field theory to be considered as a viable one.

The theory does not contain any viable dark matter particle that possesses all of the required properties deduced from observational cosmology.

Although to date, no single theory has successfully expressed these relationships in viable mathematical or physical terms.

1651 ( 1990 ) ( arguing that the author and the two-tier theory of federal jurisdiction are still viable ).

New methods and measurements were developed after these influential reviews that would ultimately reestablish the trait theory as a viable approach to the study of leadership.

Gillian Bebbington, writing in 1972, suggests Alegate, Aelgate (" public gate ") or Aeldgate " ( Old Gate ") as equally viable alternatives whilst Weinreb and Hibbert, writing in 1983, revert to Stow's theory that the name means " Old Gate ".

Defined in this way, holons are related to the concept of autopoiesis, especially as it was developed in the application of Stafford Beer to second-order cybernetics and viable system theory, but also Niklas Luhmann in his social systems theory.

Pati-Salam is a mainstream theory and a viable alternative to the Georgi – Glashow SU ( 5 ) unification.

Since the 1960s, SIT ( in psychology ) and AIT ( in computer science ) evolved independently as viable alternatives for Shannon's classical information theory which had been developed in communication theory.

His proof of the Calabi conjecture allowed physicists — using Calabi – Yau compactification — to show that string theory is a viable candidate for a unified theory of nature.

The idea of mass accretion and the expanding earth theory are not currently considered to be viable by mainstream scientists.

Although it is not regarded as a viable theory within the mainstream scientific community, there are occasional attempts to re-habilitate the theory outside the mainstream, including those of Radzievskii and Kagalnikova ( 1960 ), Shneiderov ( 1961 ), Buonomano and Engels ( 1976 ), Adamut ( 1982 ), Jaakkola ( 1996 ), Tom Van Flandern ( 1999 ), and Edwards ( 2007 )

In game theory, a kingmaker is a player who lacks sufficient resources or position to win at a given game, but possesses enough remaining resources to decide which of the remaining viable players will eventually win.

Tarski's material adequacy condition, also known as Convention T, holds that any viable theory of truth must entail, for every sentence P of a language, a sentence of the form ( T ):

The theory is still considered viable and remains an active topic in the physics community.

Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it falls short as a viable physical model in two significant areas and is forced to posit a 26 dimensional spacetime to remedy inconsistencies.

For several years he was one of the very few physicists who pursued string theory as a viable theory of quantum gravity.