Sentence examples for impractical rule from inspiring English sources

Kathleen Sgamma, vice president of government affairs for Western Energy Alliance, an association of oil companies, said: "While the current rule is better than the first impractical rule, D.O.I. still has not justified the rule from an economic or scientific point of view.

"We are the Saudi Arabia of coal, but this impractical rule restricts access to one of our most abundant, affordable, and dependable energy sources".

The foreign secretary said this was impractical, as "common rules" had to be followed by all 28 EU members.

General Motors, and the automobile industry in general, say that battery-powered cars are impractical and that the rule will bring about a minuscule reduction in air pollution at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Restricted opportunity to earn more income was also featured as the main reason for the conservation rule being impractical at the present time.

All three initiatives have now been rejected, adding to the discontent of citizens' groups that say that ECIs lack teeth and that their rules are impractical.

The wireless companies argued that local zoning rules, structural limitations and cost would make the backup rule impossible and impractical to implement.

Yesterday the Alliance for Electronic Business (AEB), which includes the Confederation of British Industry, issued a response to the DTI's consultation paper condemning the rules as "totally impractical and indeed impossible" to comply with.

For years, PG&E and utility lobbyists have used a standard set of arguments to head off proposed safety regulations: higher costs to consumers, impractical and rigid prescriptions, unnecessary rules, 'one-size-fits-all' regulations that don't work.

The regulation that once made them impractical was exactly the sort of outdated rule that infuriates reformists.

This rule is confusing and impractical for most drivers, resulting in the majority of drivers taking the full 10-hour break.