What is "practicable"

Usage examples of "practicable".

There is, in regard to government, as distinguished from the state, no antecedent right which binds the people, for antecedently to the existence of the government as a fact, the state is free to adopt any form that it finds practicable, or judges the wisest and best for itself.

It was agreed that Willis should be under the espionage of Arabin for the night, and that he should take him home if practicable on the following morning.

Yet, although quite practicable, it would be a most morbid and dejected existence, without vitality or even thought, but only paramentation, our chief companions paramental entities of azoic origin more vicious than spiders or weasels.

If in 1885 it was not practicable to secure the adoption of the bimetallic system, when silver was worth eighty-four cents per ounce, what is the prospect of its adoption when silver is worth only sixtyfour cents per ounce, with an annually increasing product and a diminishing price?

Frogs, curarized or chloroformed, are given them, and the experiment which has been fully explained and demonstrated by the professor, is performed by them as far as practicable.

An abrupt turn then led over rough ground, the lower folds of the Umm Furut, where a great granite gorge, the Nakb Abu Shar, ran up to a depression in the dorsum, an apparently practicable Col.

But nevertheless it is true and practicable that marches in pursuit may be so planned as to have this tendency, and that the efficacy of the pursuit is very much enchanced thereby.

The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins.

She had sufficient sea lore to understand that this implied shelter from wind and wave, but Hozier omitted to tell her that the only practicable roadstead in the island, being on the weather side, would be rendered unsafe by the present adverse combination of the elements.

This meant that a delicate balance had to be struck between the creation of new pathways for established research to get to market and the need to focus research on the Lucent business as much as practicable.

In the preceding chapter we sketched the first practicable first phase of the Open Conspiracy as the propaganda of a group of interlocking ideas, a propaganda associated with pacificist action.

There is no doubt, however, that in the earlier villages each gens, and where practicable, the whole of the phratry, built their houses together.

Because of this, as previously intimated, it may be well to arrange, where practicable, to cut the first crop of the season for soiling food.

The disused railway line was shown, of course, since the main purpose of a secret map was to show unobvious but practicable routes.

The land of the earth, all utilizable natural products, have fallen very largely under the rules and usages of personal property because in the past that was the only recognized and practicable form of administrative proprietorship.