(a.) Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.
(a.) Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts.
(a.) Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
(2) Slowing growth, financial fragility, governments teetering on the brink of insolvency and default, and clear signs of a public backlash against the excesses of the rich and powerful: all have created a sombre backdrop to the invitation-only affair.
(3) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
(4) The number of people in England and Wales entering insolvency fell in the first three months of 2012, but debt charities warned the figures represented "the tip of the iceberg" of the UK's debt problems.
(5) But the insolvency profession trade body, R3, blamed the Insolvency Service for not providing clear guidelines on how to complete the SIP 16 forms and said the changes could drive up costs.
(6) Six months later, Greece is in effect insolvent, on the brink of the common currency's first case of sovereign debt default unless it is bailed out.
(7) At that point the Bank regarded the problem as one of liquidity – a lack of cash flow – rather than the risk of insolvency.
(8) "When the economy finally does improve, the number of corporate insolvencies will continue to rise, even if at a slower rate, due to a lag effect.
(9) As a result, and regardless of how the charity is established, trustees can attract personal liability for the debts or losses of the charity where that charity finds itself in an insolvent situation.
(10) • IVAs can only be drawn up and presented to creditors by a licensed insolvency practitioner.
(11) We examined the effects of methylphenidate on the task persistence of 21 boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), after they had been exposed to both solvable and insolvable problems.
(12) She said the company's directors could not be held liable as they step aside during the insolvency process.
(13) A charity will be considered to be insolvent when it is unable to pay its debts as they fall due.
(14) The chancellor, Alistair Darling, told MPs yesterday that the ailing mutual, the UK's 12th largest, was close to insolvency.
(15) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.
(16) If a bank becomes insolvent the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) steps in.
(17) An insolvency specialist today warned of a "deluge" of business failures next year, saying the UK is in the mid-point of a W-shaped recession.
(18) Merkel has become increasingly isolated in the last fortnight over Germany's insistence that Greece's private creditors – the banks, pension funds and insurance companies holding much of the insolvent country's €340bn of debt – have to take "haircuts" or sizeable losses on their investments as part of this second deal to rescue Greece.
(19) SWANSEA CITY Accounts for the year to 31 May 2014 Ownership Martin Morgan, 23.7%; Brian Katzen, 21.1%; Swansea City Supporters Society Limited (supporters trust) 21.1%; chairman Huw Jenkins 13.2%; Robert Davies 10.5% Turnover 13th highest, £99m (up from £67m in 2013) Match income £9m Media £81m Commercial and other £9m Wage bill Joint 14th highest, £63m (up from £49m in 2013) Wages as proportion of turnover 64% Profit before tax £1m (down from £21m in 2013) Net debt Nil; £2m cash in the bank Interest payable £0.015m Highest-paid director Huw Jenkins, £550,000 State they’re in The Swans’ epic paddle from bottom division and insolvency to Premier League and new stadium owned by a consortium of fan-businessmen, including 20% held by the supporters trust, was committed to documentary with A Jack to a King.
(20) The engineering company UGL agreed to pay Leung £4m in relation to its acquisition of DTZ Holdings, an insolvent property services firm that had employed Leung as its Asia Pacific director before he took office, Melbourne-based The Age reported on Wednesday .
Unsolvable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Record linkage of the findings in heterozygotes for use later in life is an unsolved problem.
(2) Unsolved epidemics of acute respiratory disease dating to the 1950s were subsequently attributed to the newly described pathogens.
(3) The natural transmission mechanism(s) of the simian trypanosomiases in South Asia remains an unsolved problem.
(4) The role of steroid therapy in brain oedema following acute cerebral lesions is still unsolved.
(5) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
(6) A number of problems concerning both clinical and genetic or cytogenetic aspects of the fragile-X syndrome remain unsolved.
(7) Examination of possibility of AAT deficiency should be performed in every case, where the cause of liver disease is unsolved; this examination is especially indicated by the presence of typical PAS positive, diastase-resistant, AAT immunreactive globules in hepatocytes.
(8) The attacks had clear echoes of the unsolved assassination in January this year of one of their colleagues, particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi.
(9) The question, of whether long-term treatment of essential hypertension with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is capable of modifying glucose tolerance or insulin sensitivity in Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes, is still unsolved.
(10) The problem of the quantification of vertigo is still unsolved.
(11) Although the molecular nature of several blood group antigens was established in 1950-1980, the identification and characteristics of the Rh-antigens long remained unsolved.
(12) Theoretical prediction of the structure, stability and activity of proteins, an important unsolved problem in molecular biology, would be of use for guiding site-directed mutagenesis and other protein-engineering techniques.
(13) Although implants have not yet been used for this purpose in children, there are no unsolvable technological problems.
(14) Coronary heart disease is now the leading cause of death in many countries and is the major unsolved problem in the treatment of hypertension.
(15) In January 1977 an unsolved outbreak of infection at St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington, D.C.) that occurred in 1965 was linked with Legionnaires' disease.
(16) Although the purely engineering problems as well as the surgical ones appear solvable at this time, the remaining unsolved problems lie in two areas: 1) the bioengineering interfacing, i.e., the search for methods needed to connect an engineering (electronic) device to the neural auditory system in an efficient manner; and 2) clinical tests for the assessment of the functional state of the cochlear nerve.
(17) The problem of its biological significance and the question whether emperipolesis is the result of invasion of engulfment must remain unsolved.
(18) These circulatory effects of O3 may be significant from the viewpoint of health effects, although its mechanisms remain unsolved.
(19) Its function, which has long been an unsolved puzzle, is likely to be related to the unique ability of PSII to oxidize water.
(20) So the problem of whether testosterone or androstanolone or another natural steroid is the most effective myotrophic hormone in rat skeletal muscle remains unsolved.