How To Use Practicable In A Sentence

Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
To tell you the truth, your plan is very attractive, but it doesn't seem to be practicable.
It is quite impracticable for me to arrange an alternative source of payment at this notice.
When a government takes control of a failing firm and injects capital but with the plan to divest as soon as practicable, that is a receivership/conservatorship, not socialism. abb1 says: Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do
Another seemingly plausible, but impracticable scheme is feared to end up wasting the nation's energy and worsening social division.

According to one homemade combinable multi-axle trailer's steering system, the calculation in the paper proves this design method is reasonable and practicable.
Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
So, too, we should whenever practicable lay on our colours in washes; if we begin with stippling our drawings they will be "niggling," and will be sure to look poor and "spotty. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young
It is practicable, if a rabbet or mitered joint is used in the sides, but if the side pieces are butted or dadoed, the rabbet for the bottom shows. Handwork in Wood
Reluctantly, therefore, but speedily, I arose, and induing my garments with all practicable haste, I described a course to Excerpts from the Diary of William S. Mullins, November 23 through 25, 1840
I don't want to use the term 'overreach,' " Dunn told me, pausing for effect, "but the broad nature of the proposed regulations, both in terms of who they apply to, this gigantic universe of people, what they consider 'children's programming,' the unworkable, impracticable standards they use in their nutritional values - that's the issue. NPR Topics: News
The only practicable course of action is to sell the company.
A violent conquest would be followed by a prolonged period of martial law before the successful imposition of the English law became practicable.
It was only by this that it could be made practicable, so that the steamship is the product of the steam-engine, and it is to James Watt
Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
The only practicable course of action is to sell the company.
His active brain, stimulated by a desire for wealth, and an egotism which might be called impracticable, wrought out original plans of farming without number. The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.
The electricity and fluid symmetrical railroad switch's safeness , reliableness and practicableness on lathedesign according to practice.
By occasional soap-and-hot-water washing; by extraction of the involved hairs, when practicable; by carbolic acid or boric acid lotions to the whole scalp, so as to limit, as much as possible, the spread of the disease; and by daily (or twice daily) applications to the patches and involved areas of a parasiticide. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
The investigation led up to the conclusion that the plan was practicable.
The fact that his ideas were totally impracticable was irrelevant.
In cases where enforcement of an undertaking by an order for its performance is still possible and practicable, such an order will no doubt be made more or less as a matter of course.
Conctusions: the Psychomotor epilepsy and the Psychoses must give distinguish, furthermore it is practicable.
If consent is impossible or impracticable, it may be permissible to conduct the research in the absence of consent in certain situations.
Hood down, clever aerodynamic design ensures that the occupants are almost totally protected from wind buffeting, making open air motoring quite practicable, even at this late stage of the year.
And I did consider it reasonably practicable for the works to be carried out: see paragraphs 24 and 86 of the judgment.
It would seem even less practicable than a sole reliance upon dactylology would be, for there can be no doubt as to what Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
Without having first made this diversion, he would have found it impracticable to leave the house with tranquillity; but, when this bewitching philtre grew into an habit, her attachment to Ferdinand was insensibly dissolved; she began to bear his neglect with indifference, and, sequestering herself from the rest of the family, used to solicit this new ally for consolation. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
A number of schemes ran through my mind, only to be dismissed as impracticable. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
The proposed revalidation by yearly exam is impracticable and of unproven efficacy. Times, Sunday Times
The drastic reduction in the number of committees was felt to be impracticable.
They oppose it under the pretext of its being impracticable.
The changes to the tax system proved impracticable as they were impossible to enforce.
When John saw the costume designs, he was horrified, finding them quite impracticable for dancing.
Please weigh the above points and see if they are practicable.
In bleaching processes there has been no radical change of system on the large scale since the introduction of the 'Mather' kier in 1885, and the associated change from lime and ash boiling to the caustic soda circulating boil with reduced volume of lye, which this mechanical device rendered practicable. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
Deep soundings above 6 fathoms (11 m) were impracticable so the practice then was to sound the depth using a line and lead.
In familial cases without a gene defect regular echocardiograms are the only practicable screening method.
Thomas Jefferson called the purest form of a republic -- if impracticable beyond a township -- in OpEdNews
Policing is only practicable and therefore expedient if the court acting in that role has power to enforce its powers if disobeyed.
However, necessity was the spur to invention, and we did many things which before we thought impracticable, that is to say, in our circumstances. The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
The only practicable alternative is to postpone the meeting.
A number of schemes ran through my mind, only to be dismissed as impracticable. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures, which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments.
A higher-tech solution would be to put lots of reflective mylar in low-earth orbit; a lower-tech solution would be to scatter lots of ping-pong balls in tropical waters; an extremely cute solution, if practicable, would be to stimulate the formation of cirrus clouds over parts of the Pacific Ocean. How to Fight Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It is the intention of the parties hereto that such overdraft facility be refinanced soon as reasonably practicable by way of new term loan facilities.
- Edward's plan for Hampshire does not vary, he only improves it with the kind intention of taking me on to Southampton, & spending one whole day with you; & if it is found practicable, Edward Junr* will be added to our party for that one day also, which is to be Sunday ye* 10th** of July. Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others
Total calibration against the full range of particle size combinations and particle shapes is impracticable.
In 1997, the government iterated a policy encouraging agencies to use incentives ‘to the maximum extent practicable when contracting for services.’
Again, none of those guys are military planners (and looking at their article, their conclusions are suspect – an Israeli airstrike is clearly not feasible, and the only practicable invasion plan is the “heavy” option from the West – the rest are recipes for disaster). The Volokh Conspiracy » The Vietnam Comparison — A Closer Look At The Numbers:
It is important that it is done as soon as is practicable. Times, Sunday Times
So I must deploy all possible, practicable means to be covert.
But he was released on the basis that it was no longer possible to remove him as soon as reasonably practicable.
It said it would cease those operations as soon as practicable. Times, Sunday Times
What’s impracticable is simply the idea of getting a law passed such that someone in the position of Helen Aberson and Harold Perl, for example, the writer and illustrator of the children’s book that DUMBO is based on, might take Disney to court for, say, introducing a racist character like Jim Crow or throwing in some right wing anti-union propaganda in the form of evil clowns. Archive 2009-02-01
That would, of course, be impracticable, and would also be quite unnecessary.
In addition, the passage of 16 years from the date of the events in question meant that it was wholly impracticable - indeed impossible - to mount an adequate defence.
It was the only practicable idea on the table. THE GUARDSMEN
Obama should thank the solonic six for their work, and, as much as is politically practicable, ignore it. D-Day
This route was described as practicable for camels, and ran through lands belonging to tribes whose headmen were with me, a fact which should, I thought, ensure our being free from attack. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
The terracing that covers every practicable inch of this vast cleft in the earth, dates back hundreds and in some cases thousands of years, certainly long before the Incas conquered the valley.
I consider it would be impracticable to cut the openings and form proper brick and blockwork reveals and inset cills in these low bonded walls.
As the afternoon wore on, he resorted to covering his grizzled features with his hands, as if finding it hard to face further evidence that his scheme is hopelessly impracticable as well as offensive in principle.
But they also want to leave the door open for the assessment of other potential sites if redevelopment proves impracticable.
Men unaccustomed to reason and researches, think every enterprise impracticable, which is extended beyond common effects, or comprises many intermediate operations. The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV
A baby may find and swallow it; the ashman sever an artery; dropping it overboard at sea is impracticable, to say nothing of the danger to some innocent fish. The Perfect Gentleman
“Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests on the food premises” — Only $660 fine? Name And Shame Food List Highlights Unhygenic Restaurants | Lifehacker Australia
The principal object of this request is to enable me to obtain the countenance and protection of the government in the enterprise of conveying, exhibiting and explaining models and specimens of American arts and productions under the auspices of the American Institute, and of obtaining whatever information may be practicable to acquire from the ancient nation for the benefit of our country. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
Any future disclosure would be preceded by prior notification to the Claimant save in exceptional circumstances where this was not reasonably practicable.
Clearly the citizen must use only reasonable force and hand over the arrested person to the police as soon as practicable. Times, Sunday Times
It is not reasonably practicable to offer her the original job back.
Having found, from experience, that impeachment is an impracticable thing, a mere scare-crow, they consider themselves secure for life; they sculk from responsibility to public opinion, the only remaining hold on them, under a practice first introduced into England by Lord Mansfield. Letters
Universal suffrage is an impracticable piece of nonscense; — Republicanism will only do in new establishd countrys: not in those which have been govern'd by Kings for a thousand years. — Letter 354
It is therefore practicable to use axite cartridges giving higher velocities than can be employed with cordite, as with such velocities the latter would nickel the barrel by excessive friction. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
A tendency so stupid and so selfish is like to prove invincible; and if Socialism be at all a practicable rule of life, there is every chance that our grand-children will see the day and taste the pleasures of existence in something far liker an ant-heap than any previous human polity. Lay Morals
I did my best to draw my fair companions into a little chat, but found my _vis-à-vis_ -- the daughter of my successor outside -- most impracticable; a monosyllable was the extent of her exertion: whilst her companion, who was a lively, intelligent-looking girl, and very pretty withal, was necessarily chilled by the taciturnity of her senior. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.
It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with bloodguiltiness. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Headphones are not practicable for hearing aid wearers because the proximity of the headphone causes acoustic feedback in the aids.
The process of selection of multi-level threshold gray based on fuzzy entropy makes the algorithm adaptive and practicable.
Again, as with maternity leave, he can change his mind but has to give 28 days notice (unless not reasonably practicable to do so).
Where, among the wooden fowls and "impracticable" flagons, were to be seen very imposing pasties and flasks of champaigne, littered together in most admirable disorder. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
With the rapid development of network and communication technologies, there comes an urgent and higher requirement on the verification, which should be more veracious, safe and practicable.
They are treated on first appearance by the actual cautery, and, when practicable, by cutting off the joint; the drugs popularly applied are Tutiya (tutty) and verdigris. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
A letter of Dr. Percival's is fubjoined to - it, in which that ingenious writer offers fome pertinent obferva - tions on the grand articles, air, diet, and medicine, with a view to the preventing or correcting putrcfa£tive contagion in hofpitals, as far as the fame appears practicable on their prefenc cftabliftiment; and of thereby rendering them more falutary and fafe to the fick who refidc in them, and consequently more lifeful to the public. The Monthly Review
The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one.
All agricultural capital would be nationalized or municipalized as fast as it became sufficiently highly organized to make this practicable. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
In Weinberger , the goal of the statute was to eliminate water pollution to the extent practicable.
The troops will be brought home as soon as practicable.
These will be published as soon as practicable, the company said. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme was criticized as too idealistic and impracticable.
The truth is that the enunciators of the floating island theory have failed to face very obvious possibilities that make the doctrine quite impracticable when tested by the actualities of life on board ship and ashore.
Such measures would be highly impracticable and almost impossible to apply.
It is not practicable to complete the tunnel before the end of the year.
The Seller shall give notice of any likely delay in delivery as soon as practicable.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Solid Fuels Administration for War until its abolishment and thereafter through such agency or agencies of the Department of the Interior as he may designate, is authorized to wind up and liquidate the affairs of the Solid Fuels Administration for War as expeditiously as practicable and to utilize for such purposes, to the extent necessary, the personnel, property, records, and funds of the Solid Fuels Administration for War and such other funds as may be appropriated therefor. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9847
The third division seems to have followed along the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria to its most south – easterly bight, and then to have turned off by the first practicable line in An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
With the assistance of such guides, nothing could remain impervious or inaccessible; resistance was fatal; flight was impracticable; and the patient submission of helpless innocence seldom found mercy from the Barbarian conqueror. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“As for that matter,” cried the other with precipitation, “they would have no occasion to batter in breach; they would find the angle of the la pucelle bastion demolished to their hands — he, he!” — “But I believe it would surpass your understanding,” resumed the chairman, “to fill up the fosse.” — “That, I own, is impracticable,” replied the bard, “there I should meet with a hiatus maxime deflendus!” The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
This is the only practicable solution imaginable.
In the case of the King, the only amends practicable is the restoration of the Ministers possessing the confidence of the country. The Place of the King in the British Constitution
The attention of Claude Bernard was directed to this point, but he did not succeed in producing glycosuria by ligation of the duct which leads the secretion of the gland to the bowel or by injecting coagulating substances into it; the removal of the whole gland by operation he regarded as technically impracticable. Physiology or Medicine 1923 - Presentation Speech
As a whole it resembles the Russian matryoshka doll - layers of complexity which render easy solutions such as plebiscite or partition impracticable and call for a more sophisticated approach.
The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant.
a practicable solution
One book, and that the most read of all, was hedged by a sort of divinity which protected it, so far as that was practicable, from the dilapidating effects of use. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
The villain in the story is J.hn J. McCloy, the High Commissioner of Germany - who in addition to setting nearly all of the NMT convicted free by the early 1950s, was also one of the US officials who had turned down J.wish requests to bomb Auschwitz on the ground that doing so was "impracticable" and would divert necessary resources from "decisive operations elsewhere. Opinio Juris
A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
Although ridding the whole river system of signals is impracticable, the team may be able to work out how to prevent invasions of strategic points, such as above waterfalls.
The kago is a sort of palanquin borne on the shoulders of four stout men, the path being impracticable even for mules; but were it less steep and wider, the Japanese have no mules. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph [140] and a Russian conqueror. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
Simulation results show that the methods based on wavelet transform is practicable for getting usefulness signal, setting out noise and break signal.
There is no practicable, feasible, and concrete legal instrument" to regulate Internet use, says Li Xu, deputy head of Tsinghua University's Institute for Internet Behavior.
On foreign policy, it resolved: “that our title to the whole of the Territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas, at the earliest practicable period, are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the democracy of the Union.” A Country of Vast Designs
Would the interior acclivities of the crater be practicable? The Mysterious Island
Frogs, curarized or chloroformed, are given them, and the experiment which has been fully explained and demonstrated by the professor, is performed by them as far as practicable. "[ An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility
It is their duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the equipment is safe.
There are some who imagine that this way of discerning the will of God is impracticable for persons in the world, and that it is only out of the world, as they call the cloistered life, that one can have recourse to it. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
It would be impracticable for each member to be consulted on every occasion.
Upon receipt of the _halt order_ from the commander of the main column, the outpost commander issues the _outpost order_ with the least practicable delay. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
A large string of mules, however, which met us from Toulon, loaded with barilla for the great glass works at Beausset, showed us that the one or the other was practicable, and on advancing a little farther, we distinguished the chasm through which the road to Toulon is conducted, surmounted by the black ruins of an old castle to the left. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
However this option was impracticable because she did not have the time to do just that, so she gave up completely and resorted to speaking only English when she was in Hong Kong.
So the adjacent bridge was, at the time of construction, one which would be foreseeably used by people who had been drinking because the bridge was the only practicable means of getting from that area back to the rest of the town.
Caleb, observing what stress they laid upon the difficulty of conquering Hebron, a city garrisoned by the giants, and how thence they inferred that the conquest of the whole land was utterly impracticable, in opposition to their suggestions, and to convince the people that he spoke as he thought, bravely desired to have that city which they called invincible assigned to himself for his own portion: "I will undertake to deal with that, and, if I cannot get it for my inheritance, I will be without. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
I believe that teaching of the Master, so often regarded by men in this world as impracticable and unpractical, is not only morally the highest, but in actual practice it is the most effective, as the experience of men and of nations so abundantly proves; and the higher you and I rise in the direction of chivalry, the more do we reveal our kinship with our Heavenly Father Who allows His sun to shine upon the evil and upon the good, and sends His rain upon the just and upon the unjust. Chivalry in the British Empire
Mr. Cowen is there made to say, not that he _resigned_ nomination; -- But that for reasons there enumerated, "it was his _personal wish to resign his own nomination_ &c. and he submitted to the decision of the meeting, the question whether it would be most expedient to act on his _resignation which_ he now made (_which_ must refer to the _personal wish_ before expressed, for no other resignation is pretended) if the meeting should judge a postponement impracticable, or to postpone acting until he could have time to communicate to some of the particular friends of his nomination (beside those who were present at the meeting) his reasons for resigning, and procure their concurrence _before hand_ &c. A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen"
That is why it is a mistake to think of government as primarily concerned with collecting as much tax revenue as possible, practicable, or profitable.
But such highly specific, dedicated voting machines are unnecessary and impracticable for the future of electronic voting.
It is not practicable to complete the tunnel before the end of the year.
The scheme was criticized as too idealistic and impracticable.
The investigation led up to the conclusion that the plan was practicable.
For this reason, wine professionals and keen amateurs prefer completely plain, uncoloured, unengraved, uncut glass, preferably as thin as is practicable to allow the palate to commune as closely as possible with the liquid.
It is not reasonably practicable to offer her the original job back.
They had to look at what is practicable and achievable.
To me, speaking with due deference to the opinion of others, the proposals appear to be the most insane, foolish, and impracticable that could have been devised by rattish brains. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
That these inconveniencies and hardships kept them in a state of poverty and misery, and that the chief cause of all their calamities was the strict adherence of the Trustees to their chimerical and impracticable scheme of settlement, by which the people were refused the obvious means of subsistence, and cut off from all prospects of success. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2
To furnish tables showing the number of Negroes which the selective draft produced for the various occupations mentioned was at the compilement of this work not practicable. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
Many of his goals, such as making lone parent policies sensible and practicable, have already been well aired.
Jefferson recognized that ‘an equal division of property is impracticable.’
Most encouragingly, everyone believes that improvement is possible and practicable.
Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph and a Russian conqueror. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
B. Kaskey, Bellcomm, Inc., gave NASA Apollo Program Director Samuel C. Phillips three reasons why an AS - 204 rescue of or rendezvous with a biosatellite would be impracticable.
Express authorization or, if that is impossible or impracticable, variation of the banking contract, seems to be the best avenue open to the bank.
The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. The Federalist Papers
Distributism is not an economic system, as is Capitalism, this is true, and for this reason it is often attacked as "impracticable," but it is an attitude, developed by Catholics and fostered by Catholics not individualistic Protestants, and it seems much more in line with the Catholic Faith. Distributism Vs. Laissez-faire Capitalism
The effective enforcement of anti-monopoly law depends on building perfective and practicable enforcement.
It would be impracticable for each member to be consulted on every occasion.
The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
In familial cases without a gene defect regular echocardiograms are the only practicable screening method.
The criterion possesses the features of simple configuration and excellent adaptability. Because of its easy implementation it is a practicable method for out-of-step protection.
For this reason, wine professionals and keen amateurs prefer completely plain, uncoloured, unengraved, uncut glass, preferably as thin as is practicable to allow the palate to commune as closely as possible with the liquid.
Here and there a more or less circular space has been swept clear, and on each space a batch of skaters whirl and attitudinize, the uncleared interspaces of snow-covered, impracticable ice given up to miscellaneous loafers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
After a while such words as "impracticable" and "impossible" lose their absoluteness and become only synonyms for the relatively difficult. Humanly Speaking
The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable.
The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards … I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
Their plan is merely a castle in the air because it is simply impracticable.
Headphones are not practicable for hearing aid wearers because the proximity of the headphone causes acoustic feedback in the aids.
You have to give your employer at least three weeks' notice before you intend to stop work, or as soon as is reasonably practicable. Double Income No Kids Yet?
Quite simply, this is impracticable in real life.
It has now become so much harder for a Tory leader to persuade a dubious electorate that his policies are practicable and viable.
As soon as practicable he called the unruly body to order, beat upon the rude desk to enforce attention, and, in the lull that succeeded, briefly defined the purpose of the meeting, ending with introducing the speaker and craving for her their respectful attention. The Woman's Advocate, Vol. I, No. III.
It must also be remembered that restitution of the environment may often be impossible, impracticable, or not economically justifiable.
My only chance of success now lay in the non-termination of Flinders range, and in the prospect it held out to me, that by continuing our course along it we might be able to procure grass and water in its recesses, until we were either taken beyond Lake Torrens, or led to some practicable opening to the north. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
Section 9 requires employers to eliminate hazards whenever it is reasonably practicable to do so.
It has been rejected in the past as impracticable.
This is a practicable possibility if the trial is in Ottawa but not if it is in London.
Since our resources are limited, it's impossible and impracticable for us to distribute a large sum of money here and there without seeing obvious results.
When this work is complete we will be better able to judge what improvements are possible and whether these are reasonably practicable. Times, Sunday Times
Atlantic unity, with bonds as loose as we have them, as tight as may be practicable, is a safer bet than European union. Britain Versus EuropeThe Schuman Plan and German Revival
Order and privilege are condemned; total democracy, as direct as practicable, is the professed radical ideal. Think Progress » Saudi Prince Calls Murdoch And Changes Fox News
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle Equipment procurement including development is already subject to competitive tendering wherever practicable.
We might at least remember that what we call practicable justice has never yet attained the gracious results of Christ's romantic justice. The Empire of Love
He openly criticized the plan as impracticable.
After studying the seventy odd remedies proposed, Slingerland concludes that six are efficient and practicable: growing the young plants in closely covered frames; tarred paper cards placed snugly about the base of the plants to keep the fly away; rubbing the eggs from the base of the plant; hand-picking of the maggots; treating the plants with emulsion of carbolic acid; treating them with carbon bisulfide. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
You may be refused support on the basis that you have given inadequate information to satisfy the Secretary of State that you made your asylum claim as soon as practicable after arrival in the UK.
The only practicable course of action is to sell the company.
The executive commee are requested, as Soon as they find it practicable, to cause the accommodations to be furnished, which are Suggested in the communication of professor Bonnycastle. Letters to and from Jefferson, 1824 [a machine-readable transcription]
But the idea was vetoed by the Chiefs of Staff as impracticable.
“Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests on the food premises” — Only $660 fine?!?!? Name And Shame Food List Highlights Unhygenic Restaurants | Lifehacker Australia
Human life is concrete, and the attempt, as I have so often urged, to separate it up into water-tight compartments is, in the last resort, impracticable.
If the Journal is to live up to the image presented by the new cover, then innovations such as electronic manuscript submission and document tracking systems are needed as soon as practicable.
The troops will be brought home as soon as practicable.
The process of selection of multi-level threshold gray based on fuzzy entropy makes the algorithm adaptive and practicable.
Then we soon took it; but in candour I should state that the breaches were rendered more practicable than when first stormed, the defences destroyed, and the enemy's means of defence diminished. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
The positive alternatives he suggested typically look unpersuasive, tending to be either utopian or, at very least - given the circumstances in which he offered them - impracticable to a degree.
The oral media have accustomed people to continual and infinitely practicable mutability.
The object is most desirable, but quaere, is it practicable?
The Board of Longitude finds that this set is both a useful and practicable solution to my need for entertainment.
Next to the savages, I had always lived in fear of being discovered in my retreat by the police, who would certainly think it strange to find a man and his mother living in a shed, without any practicable outside door, in what they called a vacant lot. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
If you are planting out leeks (or any crop where plants are grown fairly close together) it is hardly practicable to use this method. Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden
When these measures are impracticable, the suffering may be relieved by inserting in the boot a rigid metal plate which will prevent any attempt at dorsiflexion in walking. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Under health and safety law, you have to do what is reasonably practicable. Times, Sunday Times
The project was a bold one , full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable.
Still, so closely and intimately associated are the physiological and the psychological aspects, that the exclusion of all references to the latter would be impracticable, or, if practicable, unadvisable.

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