We're told about the Friday sessions where any employee can ask Page and Brin anything, the policy of letting everyone spend twenty per cent of his or her time on a personal project, the willingness to invest in big, impracticable-seeming ideas like self-driving cars or the "interplanetary Internet".
No fewer than five commissioners are now involved with foreign affairs, making such an idea impracticable as well as unpopular.
Although the ideal is to establish a CHPS compound in every village, the cost involved in bringing that about makes the idea impracticable in the short run for the government.
He criticizes many of Plato's ideas as impracticable, but, like Plato, he admires balance and moderation and aims at a harmonious city under the rule of law.
At that time the BJP had to forsake such ideas as politically impracticable.
He was definitely the new kid on the block, but still 12 managements turned down the idea for Oliver! as impracticable and too morbid.
After building a model of the device, Whitehead rejected the scheme as impracticable and began work on an idea of his own.
Rather than fusing the common law and equity, which he saw as impracticable since it would destroy the idea of trusts, he decided to fuse the courts and the procedure.
Though desirable, such an idea would be very difficult to implement, if not impracticable, in many developing countries.
John Dellow, the commander of the police operation, had apparently considered the idea and even consulted a doctor about its viability, but eventually dismissed it as "impracticable".
