Sentence examples for was impractical before from inspiring English sources

Sadly its use was impractical before the development of optical fibres, so Bell concentrated instead on his more successful idea, the telephone.

Holloway chuckles when I relate this to him; he lasted even less than 10 minutes as a silent witness when he first saw the show, and his suggestion of donating a tree to a public school was smashed by no less than the founding artistic director of Kneehigh Theatre, who dot-pointed why it was impractical before concluding it was "stupid".

I loudly remarked to this effect when I modelled them – they weren't just infantilising, they were impractical – before handing them back with a flourish of disdain.

Google's chairman Eric Schmidt said last week that the company had considered moving its servers outside of the US following the publication of earlier leaks, before deciding it was impractical.

I had wanted to make 'Boyhood' for a long time, but I wasn't sure film was the best medium Making a film that spanned 12 years, the characters ageing before our eyes, was impractical, a crazy idea.

Finally acknowledging that the timeline was impractical, Immigration Minister John McCallum extended the deadline, committing to just 10,000 before the end of the.

Living in Korea was impractical.

Reverence for the bodies was impractical.

Shrinking the puzzles was impractical, he said.

The system was impractical.

"Cognitive radio gives us the opportunity to utilize the spectrum in a way that was totally impractical before," said Edmond J. Thomas, chief of the F.C.C.'s Office of Engineering and Technology.