Sentence examples for the impracticable from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, he suggested that Sackler set aside, for the moment, the impracticable notions of shooting on location with real prisoners, and focus on conducting background research.

The German-American politician Carl Schurz, meanwhile, remembered an "earnest" president who "continued to adhere to the impracticable colonization plan even after the Emancipation Proclamation had already been issued".

Meanwhile, John, having quelled the revolt of Bardas Phokas, came to the Balkans with a large army and promoting himself as the liberator of Bulgaria from Sviatoslav, penetrated the impracticable mountain passes and shortly thereafter captured Marcianopolis, where the Rus' were holding a number of Bulgar princes hostage.

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.

At the start of the season, even the most impracticable fan couldn't have dreamt up their 27-10 Super Bowl XV victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.

(Had Milton not done the impossible in creating it, modern critics would have had a field day concocting arguments about why an authentic epic a worthy shelf-mate to the Odyssey or the Aeneid was impracticable in English).

The complexities of the problem would, in all probability, make the solutions impracticable, most especially for large networks.

Specifically, adolescents are legally able to consent for certain types of treatments/interventions and minimal risk research (e.g. survey research) when the requirement for parental consent makes the research impracticable [ 35].

But, with a flash of realism, he thinks the project impracticable, because of human folly.

First, in a real life context (e.g. Cuba or Chechnya type) in which the large state knows that other small or large states are unlikely to intervene in such situations, publicity would not make the maxim impracticable.

The threatened pre-emptive nuclear strike seems more bluff than reality, since the North's leaders know it would be suicidal, and an attack on the US seems impracticable given the still technically rudimentary quality of the North's ballistic missile programme and the unproven state of its nuclear miniaturisation technology needed to place a nuclear warhead atop a missile.