Sentence examples for were impracticable from inspiring English sources

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that such religious exemptions would make each citizen "a law unto himself" and were impracticable in a pluralistic society.

Attempts to avoid physical partition by selling the land and dividing the proceeds were impracticable in a society in which it was considered important to preserve family ownership of the farm and in which money was not readily available.

In Kane's view, complex clerical systems designed to prevent errors that might be implemented in a large hospital were impracticable in a small hospital because the administrative staff to run it were simply not available.

In the autumn of 1884, Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri (ZBD), three engineers associated with the Ganz factory, had determined that open-core devices were impracticable, as they were incapable of reliably regulating voltage.

Federal fishery managers also have designated large swaths of ocean as essential fish habitat, but they have failed to follow through on protective measures by subsequently deciding that proposed enforcement tools were impracticable because of the size of the designated habitat.

Our gap measurements only represent the burst release, because longer time intervals were impracticable due to evaporation of the very small volume (6 μL of PBS) inside the gap, and despite positioning of the experiment in a humid environment.

But in fact the land reform was impracticable.

The Tate wanted it, but were advised that its removal was impracticable.

"But keeping a perfectly pristine position on this might be impracticable".

The automotive press swooned; Toyota executives said the battery was impracticable.

Justice Scalia was right: religious exemptions to general laws are impracticable.