How To Use Impracticable In A Sentence
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Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
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It is quite impracticable for me to arrange an alternative source of payment at this notice.
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Another seemingly plausible, but impracticable scheme is feared to end up wasting the nation's energy and worsening social division.
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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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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.
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The fact that his ideas were totally impracticable was irrelevant.
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If consent is impossible or impracticable, it may be permissible to conduct the research in the absence of consent in certain situations.
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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
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A number of schemes ran through my mind, only to be dismissed as impracticable.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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The proposed revalidation by yearly exam is impracticable and of unproven efficacy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The drastic reduction in the number of committees was felt to be impracticable.
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They oppose it under the pretext of its being impracticable.
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The changes to the tax system proved impracticable as they were impossible to enforce.
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When John saw the costume designs, he was horrified, finding them quite impracticable for dancing.
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Deep soundings above 6 fathoms (11 m) were impracticable so the practice then was to sound the depth using a line and lead.
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Thomas Jefferson called the purest form of a republic -- if impracticable beyond a township -- in
OpEdNews
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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
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A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
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A number of schemes ran through my mind, only to be dismissed as impracticable.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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Total calibration against the full range of particle size combinations and particle shapes is impracticable.
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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.
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That would, of course, be impracticable, and would also be quite unnecessary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But they also want to leave the door open for the assessment of other potential sites if redevelopment proves impracticable.
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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
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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
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The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
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The scheme was criticized as too idealistic and impracticable.
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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.
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Such measures would be highly impracticable and almost impossible to apply.
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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
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“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
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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
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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.
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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
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A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
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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.
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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
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A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
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refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility
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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
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It would be impracticable for each member to be consulted on every occasion.
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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.
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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)
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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
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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"
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But such highly specific, dedicated voting machines are unnecessary and impracticable for the future of electronic voting.
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The scheme was criticized as too idealistic and impracticable.
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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
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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
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Jefferson recognized that ‘an equal division of property is impracticable.’
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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.
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Express authorization or, if that is impossible or impracticable, variation of the banking contract, seems to be the best avenue open to the bank.
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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
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It would be impracticable for each member to be consulted on every occasion.
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The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
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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
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After a while such words as "impracticable" and "impossible" lose their absoluteness and become only synonyms for the relatively difficult.
Humanly Speaking
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The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable.
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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’
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Their plan is merely a castle in the air because it is simply impracticable.
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Quite simply, this is impracticable in real life.
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It must also be remembered that restitution of the environment may often be impossible, impracticable, or not economically justifiable.
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It has been rejected in the past as impracticable.
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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.
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He openly criticized the plan as impracticable.
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But the idea was vetoed by the Chiefs of Staff as impracticable.
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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.
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The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
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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.
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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.
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The project was a bold one , full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable.
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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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The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
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He openly criticized the plan as impracticable.
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If a personal examination of a successful tilery is impracticable, it will be necessary to employ a practical brick-maker, or potter, to direct the construction and operation of the works, and in any case, this course is advisable.
Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
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In cases where, under the provisions of a above, demand on a carrier is required and the owner fails to make such demand seasonably or fails to make reasonable efforts to collect the amount recoverable from the carriers, the amount otherwise payable under these provisions will be reduced by the maximum amount recoverable from the carrier if claim therefore had been filed with such carrier within the time limit, provided that it is not found that demand in any event was impracticable or would have been unavailing
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10053
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This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy.
X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock
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The machine gun soon followed, but its use in tractor machines was impracticable on account of the danger of hitting the airscrew.
Aviation in Peace and War
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The Toledo-based creator has condemned 20 films and imagined what their '60s composition covers haw hit looked like, correct downbound to the damaged surfaces and unerect corners (because it emwould / em be impracticable to encounter a strike information double of emSpace Jam / em on eBay).
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Many methods have been proposed for this, all of them of more or less value; those yielding the best results, however, requiring a considerable length of time for their execution, and involving so large an amount of manipulatory skill as to render them fairly impracticable to a chemist at all pressed for time, and receiving but a mere trifle for the results.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
