Thesaurus / practicable
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“We look forward to hearing this item at the next practicable meeting of the Board of Directors, no later than September 30, 2022,” Gloria, Blakespear and Sotelo-Solis wrote.
POLITICS REPORT: THESE MAYORS ARE SO MADANDREW KEATTS AND SCOTT LEWISSEPTEMBER 3, 2022VOICE OF SAN DIEGOIt also requires districts to be contiguous and “as compact … as practicable,” criteria that certain districts in the new map may not satisfy.
NEW YORK’S PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL MAP IS HEAVILY BIASED TOWARD DEMOCRATS. WILL IT PASS?NATHANIEL RAKICH (NATHANIEL.RAKICH@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JANUARY 31, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe technology industry—produced and made wealthy by these immense advances in computing—has failed to imagine alternative futures both bold and practicable enough to address humanity’s gravest health and climatic challenges.
WHERE COMPUTING MIGHT GO NEXTMARGARET O’MARAOCTOBER 27, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWBut what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSMy coup-d'œil assured me that it was practicable to give to this feature the character of a projecting under-jaw.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUA study of blood bacteriology is useful, but is hardly practicable for the practitioner.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDIt was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANBut it was not, in fact, found practicable to avoid improving the accommodation, even for the able-bodied.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBBBut there is the widest possible difference, both in principle and in practicable applications, between the two proposals.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBBWe do not think such a course either desirable or politically practicable.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBBWORDS RELATED TO PRACTICABLE
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