Thesaurus / practicable
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But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.
My coup-d'œil assured me that it was practicable to give to this feature the character of a projecting under-jaw.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
A study of blood bacteriology is useful, but is hardly practicable for the practitioner.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD
It was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
But it was not, in fact, found practicable to avoid improving the accommodation, even for the able-bodied.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBB
But there is the widest possible difference, both in principle and in practicable applications, between the two proposals.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBB
We do not think such a course either desirable or politically practicable.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBB
In France, this is more practicable than it would be in any other country.
What argument does Burke use to prove that hedging in the population is not practicable?
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
The completion of the railway, by affording transport facilities, made it practicable to open the country to settlers.
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