impracticability

Example Sentences

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She glossed over the impracticability of the proposal: It won’t solve highway traffic congestion.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2022

“But here, think about the impracticability of this – there is no one to serve,” said Lallas, calling the complaint a “fishing expedition.”

From Fox News • Jul. 29, 2020

The Sunday Times’ report also includes information about how Qatar allegedly and surreptitiously paid an American professor who published a paper about the economic impracticability of hosting a World Cup.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2018

That starts with cashmere itself, a fabric whose extravagant associations originate partly in its fundamental impracticability.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2015

There need be no attempt to do either, for Mill himself made an important restriction in his definition of what should be done which relieves it from the stigma of dishonesty or impracticability.

From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Robbins, Alfred Farthing