Adjective : an impracticable plan.    From Dictionary.com. 

Another doctrine, called "impracticability," says you can breach a contract if you're suddenly unable to hold up your end of the bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

And yet at that very moment the impracticability to which poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

Reason and experience have alike demonstrated its impracticability.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

The author regrets the impracticability of mentioning all of these by name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

Funding Bill in 1790 had shown his ignorance in the impracticability of his plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

But we are better satisfied than ever of the impracticability of permanent secession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

Committee, 'except to show its fallacy -- its impracticability, in fact, its absurdity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference

The weakness of this group, aside from its small size, was its impatience and impracticability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

Though he has two such good-natured people to deal with, nothing can exceed his impracticability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference

There is no trace of passion in it, but a philosophical calm with great obstinacy and impracticability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

It was all brought on by his impracticability, his whimsicality, his eccentricity, and his punctiliousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

Having thus ascertained the impracticability of the inland communication, I transmitted the result of my observations to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference

To admit the impossibility or the impracticability of universal peace is to stigmatize our vaunted civilization as a failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

Dr. Cunningham's estimate of its importance, 27. its impracticability demonstrated by Endemann, 20. value of the study of, 29.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference

It is often, by the impracticability of obtaining the concurrence of the necessary number of votes, kept in a state of inaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why We Need A New Constitution: Part 9 of 21] Reference

After a few more arguments as to the impracticability of his suggestions, the men dispersed, casting meaning glances at each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference

Nor did he like there to be any discussion as to the interpretation or impracticability of these orders, which were often very obscure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commandant of Auschwitz]

It seemed as if he feared that we might insist on the impracticability of the plan, which he must have studiously concealed from himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference

Much local interest had been roused by this statement and wagers had been made upon the practicability or impracticability of the attempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference

Similar considerations seem to show the impracticability on any considerable scale of a second possible expedient, namely, borrowing abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference

The impracticability of one consolidated Government for this great and growing nation will be more apparent and will be universally admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

By doing so, the impracticability of the scheme would have appeared considerably sooner, and this might have influenced the decisions he took in July.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Sea Lion]

But it needs no deep study of human nature, or yet of these novels, to understand the impracticability of two such minds long remaining together in unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference

On the approaching crisis, or, On the impracticability and injustice of resuming cash payments at the bank, in July 1818: And on the means of elevating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Towards a Pax Americana at Home] Reference

The impracticability of re-building the city except on old foundations soon become manifest, and the handsome design which Wren prepared had to be dismissed.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

But SAIRR says the financial costs of the proposed new layers of bureaucracy, and the impracticability of the HRC proposals will ultimately be their undoing.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Emperor's impracticability was sufficiently shown by his having procured from Perkin his own recognition as heir, if the pretender should die without issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

Six General Elections have taken place in Belgium since the law of 1899, and now no one in the country speaks of the impracticability of proportional representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

This circumstance impressed me at that time only as indicating a remarkable topographical feature of the country; but afterwards, when the impracticability of a canal at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference

America; but being convinced of its total impracticability, I would retain the colonists as allies, and thus prevent them from throwing themselves into the arms of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

All were men of more than average independence of temper, an independence which, in one or two, approached nearly to that which practical politicians call impracticability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

The exigencies of city life make this arrangement in some cases inconvenient, and yet inconvenience is less often than is popularly supposed synonymous with impracticability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

Its impracticability was demonstrated early on the 27th, and Hancock's soldierly instincts told him this the moment he unexpectedly discovered Kershaw blocking the New Market and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Does not all this suffice to show the desperate shifts to which even two such distinguished judges are driven, in order to support the new rule, and conceal its impracticability?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference