On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

Nuclear artillery was experimented with, but was abandoned as impractical.

He was a former socialist activist, and many feared that his approach to politics might be impractical.

The idea was ultimately abandoned as impractical and contrary to NPS principles.

Since CERT and the vendors were aware of the holes, but attempted to keep them secret even to the administrators of machines being hacked in the field, it was felt that CERT's policies were a manifestation of an impractical, " ivory tower " attitude.

The French Panama Canal Company, headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, had been attempting to build a sea-level canal, but came to the realization that this was impractical.

Most of this work was in small craft propelled by both sail and oar ; maneuvering larger sail-powered vessels in uncharted waters was generally impractical and dangerous.

Believing the system was impractical, the Academy rejected it, though they praised his mastery of the subject, and urged him to try again.

However, rightmost derivation has very large memory requirements and implementing an LR parser was impractical due to the limited memory of computers at that time.

Thus, it was impractical to enhance software to work with Quake III.

Ramming was impractical with these sailing ships, but their main purpose remained the transportation of soldiers to fight on the decks of the opposing ship ( as, for example, at the Battle of Svolder or the Battle of Sluys ).

This was soon recognized as impractical and dangerous.

Following a study, they concluded that a death ray was impractical but that detection of aircraft appeared feasible.

It turned out that the Chop-O-Matic was so efficient at chopping vegetables, that it was impractical for salesmen to carry the vegetables they needed to chop.

In Cook's time it was impractical to preserve citrus fruit for long sea voyages.

Repeated hat-raising was impractical if heavy helmets or hats with chinstraps ( such as shakos and bearskins ) were worn, so from about 1745 the gesture was stylised to a mere hand movement.

Given current laser energies this was impractical, but the concept was studied throughout the 1960s and later.

This mode of transport was common where sailing was impractical due to tunnels and bridges, unfavourable winds, or the narrowness of the channel.

Jones relented, he did not order his men to apply the torch -- the drove of livestock was driven up the valley, via Beverly, and across the mountains to feed and serve the Confederate army, while Jones and his raiders turned toward Buckhannon to join forces with Imboden.

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.

The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

The case was remanded to the District Court which did not apply the superior court's criteria ( on the grounds that in the interim, the Supreme Court had changed the applicable law ).

Up until World War II it was still possible to regard the city as being a settlement of narrow streets localized to some part of the harbor or the Gulf of Ajaccio ; such bucolic descriptions do not fit the city of today, and travellogues intended for mountain or coastal recreational areas do not generally apply to Corsica's few big cities.

Whorf argued that it was exactly the reluctance to apply linguistic analysis of Maya languages that had held the decipherment back.

At the same time, he was doing his National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Shrewsbury, where Busby had advised him to apply as it meant he could still play for United at the weekend.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

" This suggests that " the text and context was meant to apply to Nicodemus particularly, and not to the world.

In time, a rule, known as stare decisis ( also commonly known as precedent ) developed, whereby a judge would be bound to follow the decision of an earlier judge ; he was required to adopt the earlier judge's interpretation of the law and apply the same principles promulgated by that earlier judge if the two cases had similar facts to one another.

Charlton finished second bottom in the Football League in 1926 and were forced to apply for re-election which was successful.

The commission was allowed to apply such measures of repression as ' confiscation, deprivation of ration cards, publication of lists of enemies of the people etc .'".

This value was also computed in 1932 by the Soviet physicist Lev Davidovich Landau, who, however, did not apply it to white dwarfs.

In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his Studio, Barks decided to apply.

Apart from his lengthy teaching career at Berkeley ( during which a number of international students began to appreciate and apply his methods ), Alexander was a key member of faculty both of The Prince of Wales's Summer Schools in Civil Architecture ( 1990 – 1994 ) and The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture

Since at least the 1940s, the approach of traditional Christians was to apply the meaning of cult such that it included those religious groups who use other scriptures beside the Bible or have teachings and practices deviating from traditional Christian teachings and practices.

It would apply to serious offences where the penalty was life imprisonment or imprisonment for 14 years or more.

At that time, a friend " Swede " Hazlet was applying to the Naval Academy and urged Dwight to apply to the school, since no tuition was required.

The same did not apply to a negatively charged electroscope, indicating that the current flow was only possible in one direction.

Before Sapir it was generally considered impossible to apply the methods of historical linguistics to languages of indigenous peoples because they were believed to be more primitive than the Indo-European languages.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.

At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

And in the context of drifting personal utterances we have examined, there was occasional evidence of the origin of all such evasions.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

That such deficiencies existed within Ptolemy's theory was not discovered de novo by Copernicus.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

Sometimes ships waited for days for such a man, but Captain Heard was lucky.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.

I was delighted to make that personal contact in such trying and unusual circumstances.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.