How To Use Unworkable In A Sentence
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The energy giants have played hardball - and a scheme to make them fund the handouts has proved unworkable.
The Sun
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Investigations at the site found that key elements of the automatic hose system had been unworkable.
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She said that she had worn the dress after the outfit she first chose proved unworkable with the weather screen.
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This proposal is unfair, unworkable, highly illiberal and probably open to legal challenge.
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Negotiations reconvene one day after the top Republican lawmaker suggested an ambitious effort to trim future indebtedness by more than $4 trillion may be unworkable.
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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.
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Part 3 introduces a scheme that is unworkable and unprincipled.
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The scheme is expensive, confused, unworkable and unrealistic.
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This idea is fine for those who live alone or as couples but is totally unworkable for families.
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An idea that may also prove unworkable.
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It becomes unworkable unless you bring up the standards... politically there is a huge problem.
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Lester's blastoff drums were still in the freight compartment, but the ionics and air-restorers had been similarly rendered unworkable.
The Planet Strappers
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But negotiations with the ISPs became gridlocked when the providers called the proposals unworkable.
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Marshall argued, correctly, that this would create an unworkable command structure.
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When you came to me and suggested that you should make two copies of everything, one correct, one a mass of incorrectness, I must admit that I thought the idea farfetched and unworkable.
The Betrayal
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It also doesn't help when companies come up with complex and unworkable investment schemes that people don't understand.
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This current system is unworkable, impractical and damaging to the physical and economic health of our once lovely Auld Grey Town.
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The police think that such legislation would be unworkable.
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Spending billions of dollars on unworkable border fences is the opposite of rational. pseudonymous in nc Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Once In a Blue Moon!
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The police think that such legislation would be unworkable.
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The New Zealand Aquaculture Council believes that the provision is unrealistic and unworkable.
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They derive their strength from the realization that not to abide by them would make for an unworkable constitution.
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We have discussed your proposal and we have to say your price appears unworkable.
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In the long run this discrimination proved unworkable.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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Not only might these be unworkable, but they would still be seen as kangaroo courts.
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Critics say such a scheme is unworkable but already one example is working - or at least soon will be.
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The bill was not just excessive but also expensive, not just illiberal but impractical, not just unnecessary but unworkable.
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The Tasmanian small business council said the plan was unworkable.
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If the Obamatons want to lead with this message, they have to understand that it will strain credulity that you just now figured out that this was unworkable.
Matthew Yglesias » Are Televised Negotiations Even Possible?
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Economists and tax experts have said that the plan is unworkable.
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He said that it was more in farmers' interests than anyone else to have traceability but there was no point in trying to achieve that with a scheme that was unworkable.
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An idea that may also prove unworkable.
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The impractical nature of one sovereign having to perform homage as a vassal to another, with ties of fealty that theoretically prevented an independent foreign policy, were unworkable and was a major cause of the Hundred Years War.
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As the costs rise and the race hate builds and the unworkable, self-defeating new scheme unravels, Labor will be mute.
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It seemed an unworkable paradox.
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It would be unworkable for the Crown, as applicant, to disapprove a respondent's ownership interest.
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Buyer undesirous of take risk therefore you quality guarantee imperative otherwise unworkable.
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It is in nobody's interest that an unworkable scheme is introduced.
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Plans to jail the parents of persistent truants have been dismissed as unworkable - by the pupils themselves.
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And of course there have been some very silly, very illiberal and lots of unworkable, ‘eyecatching’ initiatives such as the famously ridiculous plan to frogmarch teenagers to cash points for on the spot fines.
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Not only would it be impractical and unworkable, I doubt whether anyone could seriously believe it.
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Proposition afraid unworkable try submit al terminative.
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The government's approach in persuasion, not enforcement, since enforcement of current legislation is unworkable.
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And who else but idiots would support a missile defence system that has proved penetrable and unworkable?
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But the logistics of carrying bees inside army vehicles moving around Afghanistan have proved unworkable.
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At times he seems caught out like a student tied to an unworkable premise for the sake of writing a heavy tome.
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Washington is unhappy with the peace plan which it views as unworkable.
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If this decision stands, your Honours, the whole scheme is unworkable.
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It can also happen if one partner leaves due to the relationship having become unworkable.
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Not only might these be unworkable, but they would still be seen as kangaroo courts.
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The Museum of Unworkable Devices explores the interface between hope and physical impossibility.
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There is the strong possibility that such cooperation will prove unworkable.
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It seemed an unworkable paradox.
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Fred Reed says that placing women in combat is “stupid and unworkable” — then provides some data to back his harsh claims:
Women In Combat « Isegoria
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In short, this proposal is unworkable in the real world.
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There is the strong possibility that such cooperation will prove unworkable.
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Physicist Donald Simanek talked about perpetual motion machines and other unworkable devices.
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This area had been damaged so many times the metal was unworkable and the raised section needed to be replaced.
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A procedure which left it to individual officers in police stations to perform some sort of balancing exercise would, it was said, be unworkable.
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“Spending billions of dollars on unworkable border fences is the opposite of rational.”
Matthew Yglesias » Once In a Blue Moon!
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But some officials say that introducing a system allowing discounts for some offences and not others will quickly become unworkable.
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The former Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland has claimed his plans are unrealistic and unworkable.
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There is the strong possibility that such cooperation will prove unworkable.
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Buyer undesirous of take risk therefore you quality guarantee imperative otherwise unworkable.
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The film producer behind Chariots of Fire said the scheme was unworkable.
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Any increase linked to speculative valuations would seem confiscatory, chaotic and unworkable.
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It could also have said that break-up would have been messy, unworkable and difficult to get through the courts.
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Sadly, not having access to time-lapse photography, he failed to understand how birds actually flew - and, even if they had ever been built, his machines would have been unworkable.
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There is the strong possibility that such cooperation will prove unworkable.
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In the next decade this distinction proved unworkable.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Maybe you should be less of a hack and admit that a system where politicians lie with impunity is unworkable and undemocratic.
Matthew Yglesias » Are Televised Negotiations Even Possible?
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He said their proposals were too widely drawn, impractical and unworkable.
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He says:It's a simple answer for most of them: to get them into workHe rejects the amendment, which he calls a "wrecking amendment" designed to make a policy unworkable: "It's the same as not having a cap at all.
Welfare reform bill: household benefit cap Lords debate - Monday 23 January
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The political situation did not improve so returning for their son became unworkable, but in 1938, with the signing of the Munich Pact with Great Britain and France agreeing to many of Hitler's demands, circumstances for Jews in Germany became more dire.
Kate Kelly: The American Spirit Personified
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It is a great idea in theory, but it is unworkable in practice.
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Government priority became a foolhardy, unworkable plan for identity cards rather than ground rebuilding.
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I have always believed, and continue to, that at the end of the day the House will pass a fairly strong bill with a good public option, and the Senate will pass a mushed-up compromise with less coverage and a trigger or co-op or some other unworkable thing.
Mike Lux: The Speech and the Fig Leaf
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That could prove unworkable should Labour oppose the line.
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Tell me, do you feel that there's a risk that her next addition to the canon may make impossible or unworkable some of the things you've come to need in your extension?
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The political situation did not improve so returning for their son became unworkable, but in 1938, with the signing of the Munich Pact (with Great Britain and France agreeing to many of Hitler's demands), circumstances for Jews in Germany became more dire.
Kate Kelly: The American Spirit Personified
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One of my greatest strengths has always been the ability to make the apparently impossibly unworkable work.
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He says the Opposition has switched its focus away from the amendment which he said was unworkable.
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Workers previously rejected the firm's plans to reduce staffing levels on a voluntary basis as impractical and unworkable.
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And all of this talk of dis-establishing the unwieldy and unworkable and agglomerated-monstrosity 'nations' (and Economy) as over-extended as 'the 48 States,' is what is contained and meant in the 1960s bumpersticker: Think globally, Act locally. by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 589 comments [29 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 at 1: 58: 24 AM
OpEdNews - Diary: Obama's To-Do List-- Open Thread; Add your to-do items
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Or maybe you worry it's just a step too far, an unwarranted, unworkable intrusion into your privacy.
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An idea that may also prove unworkable.
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But we should not conclude from this that they are therefore intrinsically objectionable and unworkable.
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To be honest, I think the scheme is completely unworkable.
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This demand proved unrealistic and unworkable.
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Negotiations reconvene one day after the top Republican lawmaker suggested an ambitious effort to trim future indebtedness by more than $4 trillion may be unworkable.
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The party of no continues on and on with their ridiculous, unworkable, unacceptable, hypocritic rantings.
GOP unveils new health care ad campaign
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This, I should warn you, is where the plan went from squirrelly and unworkable to completely insane.
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She is not one to be put off simply by senior police officers saying policy is unworkable and impractical.
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He said their proposals were too widely drawn, impractical and unworkable.
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In fact monetarism proved to be unworkable, because whichever indicator of money supply was used, other forms of money went out of control.
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There is the strong possibility that such cooperation will prove unworkable.
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A theory that represents working practices as unworkable is a bad theory.
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Authoritarian measures like the introduction of costly and unworkable identity cards show that Labour have tipped the balance between freedom and control too far the wrong way.
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Mind planet Mercury helps you work out all the details in a plan that seemed unworkable - and now it could really take off.
The Sun
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By the 1920s, this system had become unworkable.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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I think it's hard to imagine that a part of human nature isn't to actually seek some sort of sense and order, some sense of constancy in our world which otherwise becomes unworkable if it's totally unpredictable and unknowable.
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Suppose further that your fallback meal of cheese and toast is unworkable for lack of bread.
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