Sentence examples for it was not practicable from inspiring English sources

Because participants were recruited in a serial fashion from each practice, however, it was not practicable to postpone allocation to treatment groups until all participants had been recruited.

A good deal of work had already been done in 1982, when it was decided that it was not practicable to use servicemen to move coal by rail.

Thus there was reason to extend the coverage of the union up to the boundary of the market for the product, though it was not practicable to organize workers in other countries.

The respondents argued that the provisions required that unlawful non-citizens be detained until their removal, and that the purpose of removal, on which the detention was founded, did not cease to exist just because it was not practicable in the foreseeable future to carry out that purpose.

Unfortunately, it was not practicable to examine these infected tissues by electron microscopy.

It was not practicable to extend the recruitment period further.

Yet the order continued that "it is not practicable" to apply "the principles of law and the rules of evidence generally recognized in the trial of criminal cases in the United States district courts".

In their hearts, most Kurds still hanker after full independence, even if many know in their heads that it is not practicable.Iraq's future is still full of pitfalls.

Newton has been a dogged opponent, telling peers last year: "The proposition … that, if it is not practicable [to make private voluntary arrangements], people should be charged for getting justice and reasonable support for their children is bordering on the indefensible".

When it comes to picking a new car, no one can argue plausibly that it is not practicable to find a guilt-free — or significantly less guilty — alternative to a gas-guzzling clunker.

In the language of the order, "It is not practicable to apply in military commissions under this order the principles of law and the rules of evidence generally recognized in the trial of criminal cases in the United States district courts".