Sentence examples for practicable steps from inspiring English sources

DR.RORN: What practicable steps in limitation of armament did you obtain in London?

Employers have a defence to a complaint of discrimination based on actions of their employees and other third parties if they can prove that they took all reasonably practicable steps to prevent the discrimination.

The Education (No 2) Act 1986 requires universities to take reasonable and practicable steps "to ensure that freedom of speech within the law is secured" on campus, including for visiting speakers.

Under the new proposal, the corporation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey would "seek to minimize or mitigate, through reasonable and practicable steps, any potentially adverse effects" to elements like the garage, stairway and railroad tubes, and would submit mitigation plans to the consulting parties for comment.

Unusually for a criminal proceeding, the burden of proof is on the defendant: the Met will have to demonstrate that it took all "reasonably practicable" steps to prevent the death of Mr de Menezes.Falling foul of the law can be expensive: Balfour Beatty, for example, was fined £10m ($18m), reduced on appeal this month to £7.5m.

The FCC even states that "all practicable steps shall be taken to protect the radio astronomy service from harmful interference".

Modern Britain needs to think about why this happened and to take every practicable step to ensure nothing like it happens again.

Allison says testing is a "practicable step that works a lot better than sticking your head in the sand and pretending it's not happening".

Allison says testing is a "practicable step that works a lot better than sticking your head in the sand and pretending it's not happening… There's these two laws which contradict each other and what I think is probably going to happen is that as harm reduction becomes more widely accepted, more and more events are going to use [testing] as their health and safety compliance".

It took the committee's members two months to come to an inescapable conclusion: "There are no practicable and efficacious steps that can be taken in peace time to prepare against any of these threats".

"As a charity that campaigns on issues of women's economic equality, we take these allegations extremely seriously and will do our utmost to investigate them … we remain confident that we took every practicable and reasonable step to ensure that the range would be ethically produced and await a fuller understanding of the circumstances under which the garments were produced".