Literary notes about Viable (AI summary)
The term "viable" is employed across literary texts to convey the capacity for success, survival, or effective operation in a variety of contexts. In medical and biological discussions, it often denotes whether a fetus, child, seed, or pollen possesses the inherent potential to sustain life, as seen when fetal viability influences decisions about therapeutic interventions or premature deliveries [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and when seed or pollen viability determines outcomes in botanical studies [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. In other contexts, "viable" describes the feasibility or practicality of strategies, proposals, or even entire socio-political entities, indicating that something is workable or has promise for future success [13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. Additionally, authors and commentators sometimes extend the term metaphorically to capture the enduring essence or potential of an idea or group, imbuing it with an almost tangible life force [18, 19, 20].
- The case may be inoperable and the child viable.
— from The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation by Austin O'Malley - This generally takes place at the end of the ninth lunar month of pregnancy, but a child born at the seventh month is often viable.
— from The Sexual QuestionA Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel - When the child is born viable, the term premature labor is used.
— from The Sexual QuestionA Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel - The fourth case supposes the cancer is inoperable but the child viable.
— from The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation by Austin O'Malley - May a pregnant woman in danger of death from eclampsia or hemorrhage be prematurely delivered of a viable child?
— from The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation by Austin O'Malley - Such an infant might be deemed viable, but its chances for life are extremely precarious, even in most expert hands and with the help of an incubator.
— from Essays In Pastoral Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh - Many desert flowers must be insect pollinated to produce viable seeds.
— from Saguaro National Monument, Arizona by Natt N. (Natt Noyes) Dodge - The best sample showed 45% viable pollen; the next best 15% and the rest from O to 5%.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual MeetingGuelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 - They bloom perhaps two or three or four or even six weeks apart, and it is a question how long we can keep the pollen viable.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual MeetingEvansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 - I put on a good deal of it and there were at least some viable grains in the lot.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual MeetingLancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 - I cannot answer the question exactly because I did not make an experiment in the laboratory to know what part of the pollen was viable.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual MeetingLancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 - These are viable even in January and sometimes as late as March.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - The sad irony is that Russian agriculture is now much more viable than it ever was.
— from Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin - Before independence in 1912, the area of modern Albania had never been politically integrated, nor had it ever been an economically viable unit.
— from Area Handbook for Albania by Eugene K. Keefe - In doing so, it is not undermining the Federal System; it is supporting it, by making it viable in modern conditions.
— from The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and InterpretationAnnotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 - So vital is it to the success of collective endeavor that it must constitute a basic feature of a viable strategy of social and economic development.
— from The Prosperity of Humankind by Bahá'í International Community - Is this anarchic-sounding method of production economically viable?
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle - and a story, all crying out to me, “Finish, finish, make an entire end, make us strong, shapely, viable creatures!”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson - Half-breeds between whites and American Indians, also called Ladinos, seem on the contrary to form a viable race, but one of little valor.
— from The Sexual QuestionA Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel - She is a much more viable creature than the author's earlier Lily Bart, the heroine of The House of Mirth.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
