Sentence examples for impractical according from inspiring English sources

While a circle would be impractical, according to the architect, the designers arranged the floor plan in the form of two arcs, somewhat like two slices of cantaloupe facing each other.

The government's planned cull of badgers is impractical, according to an influential Conservative thinktank, and should be scrapped in favour of vaccination to help curb the bovine TB infection afflicting cattle.

Kouchner suggested that the West establish "humanitarian corridors," as it had in Bosnia, to take supplies to refugees inside Sudan — an idea "beautiful in its grandeur but entirely impractical," according to John Prendergast, an Africa expert who is a chairman of Enough, which campaigns against genocide.

"There is little money set aside in the budget for contract settlements covering years prior to 2013, and the mayor's assertion that any wage increases covering those years would have to be paid for by productivity is impractical," according to the budget office's latest fiscal outlook.

Google first set out to do away with the steering wheel and pedals approach, but this backtrack is from Alphabet CEO Larry Page and CFO Ruth Porat, who found the original approach to be "impractical," according to the report.

It's not bigger or smaller (any smaller and it's a "tweener" and any larger is impractical, according to Jobs), but it's possible that they could put out something that's arguably the same size, yet a different shape.

Moog's first synthesizers were bulky and impractical, but according to Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco's book "Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer," Mr. Sear was one of a handful of colleagues in the mid-1960s who persuaded Moog to make the device more musician-friendly by adding a keyboard.

His "deport-them-all" campaign promise was manifestly impractical and would, according to the right-of-center American Action Forum, take 20 years to accomplish, cost up to $600 billion (good luck getting that approved by Congress) and shave $1 trillion from GDP.

The water district said a tunnel directly underneath all of South La Senda Drive would be "impractical" and "unnecessary," according to an Oct. 22 letter to the Planning Commission and the community development department.

(A gastric band is reversible; a gastric bypass can be undone – in theory – but "it's dangerous and impractical to do so", according to one surgeon).

All our dog experts seem to be tied up trying to fix this mess one televised dog at a time, an impractical approach, given that according to a news release I just received promoting — no kidding — a weight-loss contest for pets, there are 77.5 million dogs in the United States.