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Unworkable
adjective
Not workable or operable; not practical; unmanageable.
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The policies being espoused by the government are badly thought out and unworkable.
If Kennedy's vote is lost, the Obama administration's signature domestic legislative achievement will be rendered unworkable or struck down entirely.
Isn't the Tory idea to introduce right-to-buy social housing just a gimmick which is largely unworkable?
Wales do not ideally want their players playing abroad either but they know a hard and fast rule is increasingly unworkable.
However, they were "united" in opposition to the "healthy welfare card", which they believed would be "demeaning, invasive, unworkable and bureaucratic, creating an entire subclass of millions of people in the Australian community", read the statement.
Should a TV fantasy drama be held to such impossibly high standards that it becomes effectively unworkable to feature any rape scenes at all?
The IFC plan was rejected as "appalling" by the head of the Lagos Water Corporation, who said it was unworkable and too expensive for the city.
When the Glazer family set about buying the club in 2005, the chief executive then, David Gill, did everything he could to block the takeover, describing it as "unworkable", as well as that now infamous quote that "debt is the road to ruin".
It seems a shame neither politician seems to have spoken to that wily, principled Conservative former home secretary Douglas Hurd before they proposed something as unworkable, ineffective and dangerous.
The government has already insisted that such an idea is "unworkable", and it probably hopes to reap the high-risk returns from its stake in the banks – just as happened in those fatal boom years.
She said: "For too long, independence in the Welsh context has been treated as a pipe-dream, as an aspiration so distant it has been seen as unrealistic and unworkable.
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