What is "attainable"

Usage examples of "attainable".

The very fulfillment and perfectionment attainable by souls cannot but be different.

Religion, to obtain currency and influence with the great mass of mankind, must needs be alloyed with such an amount of error as to place it far below the standard attainable by the higher human capacities.

He believed true wisdom to be an attainable idea, and that the moral convictions of the mind, those eternal instincts of temperance, conscientiousness, and justice, implanted in it by the gods, could not deceive, if rightly interpreted.

There remains nothing, therefore, where an absolute superiority is not attainable, but to produce a relative one at the decisive point, by making skilful use of what we have.

The feelings of all the Caffre tribes were utterly hostile, and peace was only attainable by the exercise of indisputable force.

These objects were partly attained, and were obviously attainable as far as France or the emperor had any interest in prosecuting them.

This is the amount of certainty attainable by a fallible being, and this the sole way of attaining it.

Lincoln discovered that no peace was attainable unless based upon the recognition of our indefeasible rights.

Besides driving the Bergenholm it could furnish enough kilodynes of thrust to produce a velocity many times greater than any attainable by inert matter.

This experience of a spiritual exaltation above the sins and degrading turmoils of passion, above the perishing baubles of the earth, into the religious principles which are independent and assured, peace, and bliss, and eternity, is attainable by all who with the earnestness of their souls assimilate the moral truths of Christianity, pressing in pious trust after the steps of the risen Master.

Mints and places where bullion assays must be made with the highest attainable accuracy, the surcharge is determined by experiment, and the proper correction is made in the reports on the bullion.

Thus accelerated movements and movements under constant velocity can be resolved and combined according to the law of the parallelogram of movements, a law which is fully attainable by means of logical thought.

Further, the TSA should conduct a human factors study, a method often used in the private sector, to understand problems in screener performance and set attainable objectives for individual screeners and for the checkpoints where screening takes place.

For a fleeting interlude the prospect of truly nonpartisan cooperation between them appeared attainable.

Perhaps it lies as well in the difference between the autocracy that proved so easily attainable and convenient in small rivervalley settlements surrounded by sand or semidesert, and the tribal democracy or sense of community which inspired these migratory peoples -- peoples who had spread across a continent that knew no natural frontiers, or none which could not easily be crossed.