Sentence examples for a few practicable from inspiring English sources

However, detection of hepatic hypoperfusion is challenging, because there are only a few practicable devices available to gather bedside information in a short period of time.

The Galapagos Islands, a prime target for unlicensed hunting, has few practicable landing spots for boats and passages through the volcanic-rock landscape.

The few practicable alternatives to burning, such as improved fallows, tend to have low adoption rates, probably because of both their increased labor requirements (Snapp et al. 2002) and inconsistent effects on crop yield (Hauser et al. 2006).

Although the numbering procedure is often not practicable, a few universes are already assigned numbers—such as all the workers on the payroll in a given factory, for instance, or all members of the armed forces.

In Romney's vision of a privatized and unregulated world, unless you're one of a few shareholders, this is neither practicable nor feasible.

The new regime will be in place "as soon as practicable", most probably within a few weeks.

An oral vaccine for badgers that would be much more practicable is said to be a few years off.

Until a few years ago, X-ray was the only practicable imaging modality for the spine in the upright position.

Only a few anabolic agents exist, although generally such options are too costly to be practicable, even for wealthy countries.

Thus our results show that the method is practicable, as long as research areas are small and inhabited by only a few individuals.

But although Dr. Commoner had a record of achievement as a cellular biologist and founding director of the government-financed Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, he was seen primarily as the advocate for a politics that relatively few considered practicable or even desirable.