Impracticable

What’s impracticable is simply the idea of getting a law passed such that someone in the position of Helen Aberson and Harold Perl, for example, the writer and illustrator of the children’s book that DUMBO is based on, might take Disney to court for, say, introducing a racist character like Jim Crow or throwing in some right wing anti-union propaganda in the form of evil clowns. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

His active brain, stimulated by a desire for wealth, and an egotism which might be called impracticable, wrought out original plans of farming without number. ❋ Unknown (1865)

Men unaccustomed to reason and researches, think every enterprise impracticable, which is extended beyond common effects, or comprises many intermediate operations. ❋ Unknown (1751)

However, necessity was the spur to invention, and we did many things which before we thought impracticable, that is to say, in our circumstances. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

Distributism is not an economic system, as is Capitalism, this is true, and for this reason it is often attacked as "impracticable," but it is an attitude, developed by Catholics and fostered by Catholics not individualistic Protestants, and it seems much more in line with the Catholic Faith. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After a while such words as "impracticable" and "impossible" lose their absoluteness and become only synonyms for the relatively difficult. ❋ Samuel McChord Crothers (N/A)

Where, among the wooden fowls and "impracticable" flagons, were to be seen very imposing pasties and flasks of champaigne, littered together in most admirable disorder. ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)

The villain in the story is J.hn J. McCloy, the High Commissioner of Germany - who in addition to setting nearly all of the NMT convicted free by the early 1950s, was also one of the US officials who had turned down J.wish requests to bomb Auschwitz on the ground that doing so was "impracticable" and would divert necessary resources from "decisive operations elsewhere." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lombardy region President Roberto Formigoni, a member of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, also said he thought the bill was "impracticable" and that a better solution would emerge from dialogue with the country's Muslim community. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Assistant secretary of war John McCloy responded that the request was "impracticable" because it would require "diversion of considerable air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations." ❋ Unknown (2009)

When it is "impracticable" to apply a change in policy retrospectively, the entity applies the change to the earliest period to which it is possible to apply the change. ❋ Sivatv (2009)

For a particular prior period, it is "impracticable" to apply a change in an accounting policy if • ❋ Sivatv (2009)

"impracticable," Sir DONALD MACLEAN revealed himself as a diligent student of a recent notorious book. ❋ Various (N/A)

'impracticable' served the purpose of diverting the indignation of the land's folk, which sure would be aroused, if they knew that such brutality had been practiced under the cross of St. George (the cross upon the British flag). ❋ Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (1910)

"impracticable" when the entity cannot apply it after making every effort to do so. ❋ Sivatv (2009)

11.2 Discovery of material errors relating to prior periods shall be corrected by restating com - parative figures in the financial statements for the year in which the error is discovered, unless it is "impracticable" to do so. ❋ Sivatv (2009)

"impracticable" for a particular prior period, the circumstances that led to the existence of that condition and a description of how and from when the error has been corrected. ❋ Sivatv (2009)

And in its 1911 report, the United States Immigration Commission warned against admitting the southern Italian “race,” which was “excitable, impulsive, highly imaginative, impracticable” and had “little adaptability to highly organized society.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)