impracticability

This means that the employer must prove the impracticability of precautions.

In that instance, it is actually the impossibility or impracticability defenses.

Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.

This ruling, though quite narrow, opened the door for the modern doctrine of contract avoidance by impracticability.

This ambition always had its logical weaknesses; its impracticability is now manifest.

Due to the impracticability of focusing x-rays, the sensors have exactly the same size as the image they capture.

His asthma was a symbol of weakness and impracticability as he was not able to do any physical activities on the island.

The very impracticability of many of the goals which a mass movement sets itself is part of the campaign against the present.

The sane, practical man shakes his head, smiles pityingly at my dreamy impracticability, and passes them by.

The hall would argue that the tornado was an act of God and excuses its nonperformance via impossibility or impracticability.

Carrier doctrine was still evolving at this time and the impracticability of carriers engaging in gun duels had not yet been realized.

The great risk in attacking rogue elephants consists in the impracticability of quick movements upon such ground as they generally frequent.

Thus, impossibility is an objective condition, whereas impracticability is a subjective condition for a court to determine.

In the law of contracts, an act of God may be interpreted as an implied defence under the rule of impossibility or impracticability.

This water is however murky and scarce, and all historical attempts to colonise the island failed due to the impracticability of communal agriculture.

It is often, by the impracticability of obtaining the concurrence of the necessary number of votes, kept in a state of inaction.

He considers that their size will have to be great to the verge of impracticability and the power of the motor enormous in proportion to its weight.

The central section may be extremely steep, but that is not sufficient to qualify for the "structural impracticability" exemption under the ADA.

But as to these terms, semi-family and semi-stranger, semi-goring and semi- boring, they form a state of things quite amusing in its impracticability.

Typically, the test U.S. courts use for impracticability is as follows (with a few variations among different jurisdictions):

This is a facility that recognises those occasions where cost and/or impracticability makes it difficult to physically segregate originating and non-originating materials.

Recognition by creditor institutions and governments of the impracticability of Africa servicing its accumulated debt has led to very significant rescheduling arrangements since 1985.

The impracticability of a gun-type bomb using plutonium was agreed at a meeting in Los Alamos on July 17, 1944.

As in other surrealist works, a visual pun is implied, and the incongruity and impracticability of the combined elements is also highlighted.

For many British socialists, Starnthwaite became a symbol of the impracticability of land settlement for the urban working class.