(a.) Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.
(a.) Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with.
(a.) Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.
Example Sentences:
(1) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(2) In cystic hydatid disease, whenever radical surgical procedures are impracticable, albendazole treatment can achieve significant clinical results.
(3) The transplantation may be replaced by implantation of a cardioverter if the former is impracticable or will be performed in future.
(4) The transplantation of organs between species (xenografting) has long been considered impracticable due to the immunological barriers allegedly induced by the antigenic disparity of distantly related species.
(5) One wonders what his defense minister Ehud Barak and the former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, and other Israeli leaders who disagree with him in his analysis of the urgency of the Iranian nuclear threat, think of his public commitment to such a fraught – that understates it – such a perilous and perhaps impracticable military operation.
(6) It is impracticable to reduce cadmium concentrations in sludge below certain levels.
(7) Simple insertion, rapid stabilization and reaction time less than 60 s allow use in the initial stages of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) where invasive monitoring is often impracticable.
(8) Sixty-three per cent regarded the boiling and filtration of portions of their domestic water as an additional burden, cumbersome and impracticable.
(9) When the primary site makes resection impracticable, the response to irradiation and chemotherapy is encouraging.
(10) Presenting the clinical data and regarding percutaneous paracentetic nephrostomy as an optimum technique for the clinical practice, the authors concluded UCS to be impracticable.
(11) Owing to the high incidence of side effects, treatment with more than 75 mg terodiline chloride per day is impracticable.
(12) Nevertheless, they are impracticable to perform and unsuitable for routine use in many individuals.
(13) In addition, volumetric determination of tumour size by means of region-of-interest technique proved to be rather impracticable in clinical routine compared to bidimensional measurement.
(14) Influenza vaccine is impracticable in most developing countries.
(15) This conventional system is impracticable for some laboratories that process enormous numbers of blood cultures and for these laboratories the infrared Bactec system is recommended.
(16) It is suggested that jejunal interposition should be kept for cases in which the particular shortness of the gastric stump makes simple re-insertion of the duodenum into the stomach impracticable.
(17) Derivatization with diazomethane instead of methanolic HCl turned out to be impracticable.
(18) Despite indirect evidence in support of this claim, the impracticability of monitoring oestrogen and progesterone levels in large numbers of women for prolonged periods of time has meant that no direct demonstration of the effect has been made.
(19) Similarly, a variety of other coating and attachment devices have proved to be unsatisfactory or impracticable for large scale investigations.
(20) The usual methods of choice, selective abdominal angiography and colonoscopy, may be impracticable or fail.
Infeasible
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
(2) Traditional methods for computing linkage likelihoods can be infeasible for data that involve considerable inbreeding and missing information, characteristics of large pedigrees affected by rare recessive diseases.
(3) For some procedures or diagnoses, however, such mortality savings are either medically infeasible because of the emergency nature of the problem or logistically impossible because of the extent of regionalization implied.
(4) The mountain is haughty and proud, an enormous glacier fills the valley in front and in the foreground – giving scale to the scene and a sense of infeasibility to the task facing the men inside them – is a little collection of tents.
(5) Large consumer copayments and insurer utilization controls, once deemed politically infeasible, have become commonplace.
(6) Existing approaches for obtaining these estimates are problematic, complicated by time-varying data or infeasible data requirements, and may result in biased estimators.
(7) Because of this, it is computationally infeasible to consider the energetics of all conformations available to a nucleic acid without the use of simplifications.
(8) The idea that assassinations will be used only where capture is "infeasible" is a political choice, not a legal principle.
(9) It is suggested that yeast extract supports the transport of the nucleoids into the lateral branches, which otherwise is often infeasible.
(10) Out of the good grace of his heart, or due to political expedience, Obama may decide to exercise this power only where he claims capture is infeasible, but there is no coherent legal reason that this power would be confined that way.
(11) Preliminary results indicate that the specification of a Minimum Basic Data Set as the basis of a shared record system is infeasible and undesirable.
(12) Exact probability calculations are often infeasible on large complex pedigrees.
(13) We experienced a 74-year-old female with thyroid carcinoma invading the trachea, for whom radical resection was infeasible.
(14) Beyond a certain point the scale of the cuts becomes politically, economically and technologically infeasible.
(15) Extraovular prostaglandin may therefore be of particular value in inducing abortion in patients who are in the early midtrimester of pregnancy, i.e., when intra-amniotic instillation is technically infeasible.
(16) It recommended that “after very careful consideration and taking all the circumstances into account that little could have been done to avert what happened, other than by introducing a security regime that would have been so severe that it would have rendered the programme infeasible”.
(17) If the president has the power to kill anyone he claims is an "enemy combatant" in this "war", including a US citizen, then there is no way to limit this power to situations where capture is infeasible.
(18) Previous retrograde endoscopic procedures were incomplete or infeasible in all patients.
(19) Those factors make it impossible or infeasible to convert the alcohol concentration of breath or urine to the simultaneous blood alcohol concentration with forensically acceptable certainty, especially under per se or absolute alcohol concentration laws.
(20) Although the regression predicts that increasing the number of residency programs in an underserved state should be associated with an increase the number of anesthesiologists, such a policy may be infeasible dur to pending federal health manpower legislation unless matched by decreasing a greater number of programs in relatively oversupplied states.