I do not, however, regard either of them as the best practicable system.
Supposing the route should prove practicable simply as a mail line, is the Colony at present in circumstances to bear the expense of keeping it up?
Yet I penetrated under the Fall as far as there is practicable foothold; and listened at all sorts of distances for a deafening roar, which never came.
In an engine or turbine test these locations should be as near as practicable to throttle valve.
In testing a stationary boiler the sampling pipe should be located as near as practicable to the boiler, and the same is true as regards the thermometer well when the steam is superheated.
In this country, though large deposits of peat have been found, it has not as yet been found practicable to utilize it for steam generating purposes in competition with coal.
A boiler of a certain design which might be good for small plant practice would not, because of the limitations in practicable size of units, be suitable for large installations.
Wherever practicable the feed water should be weighed, especially for guarantee tests.
The factor of safety of the boiler parts which come in contact with the most intense heat in water-tube boilers can be made much higher than would be practicable in a shell boiler.
The traffic of the Suez Canal during the first two years was relatively small, for the reason that the canal is not a practicable one for sailing vessels, and steam vessels had to be built.
The Mula pass, which connects it with the Kalat highlands, was once (when the ancient city of Kandabel was the capital of Gandava) a much trodden trade highway, and is still a practicable route though no longer a popular one.
It is usuallypracticable only between the middle of July and the middle of September.
And it is not perceived that the terms presented in the address are morepracticable than those referred to in the message.
The necessities, therefore, and not the acknowledged principles, of the Government must have suggested the policy of treating with the Indians in that quarter as the only practicable mode of conciliating their good will.
If it is found practicable to come to an agreement mutually acceptable to the two parties, conventions may be concluded in the course of the present winter.
As regards the important class of single patients, the Commissioners had not found it practicableto visit them as they desired to do.
Regarded from an economic point of view, it has been found practicable to provide buildings at a cost of between L80 and L90 per bed, which, though not aesthetic, are carefully planned for the care and oversight of the inmates.
Think as they would, no feasible or practicable idea could be got hold of.
But to go up was altogether a different operation; and it was necessary for at least one to be above to render it at all practicable or possible.
It was not pleasant to see him just then, and for several weeks I had avoided him, so far as it was practicable to do so.
This seemed to be the most practicable solution of the problem which had yet presented itself.
Gonsalvo, after coolly preparing his batteries, opened a heavy cannonade on the place, which at the end of five days effected a practicable breach in the walls.
The Spanish ordnance was served with such effect, that a practicable breach was soon made in the wall.
This system is the morepracticable with this class of ballads, since it far exceeds in number any other.
Until the population of the country shall be greater in proportion to its extent, such establishments would be impracticable if attempted, and if practicable they would be unwise.
Only by a mule train, led over a scarcely practicable trail, can he reach his distant ranch, that is forty-five miles back in the heart of the mountains.
The pioneers had preceded, and the road was practicable not only for infantry, but for carriages and stages laden with fair ladies from the hotels.
Into this I ran, and finding it practicable though difficult, began to climb upwards, quite unnoticed by the Zulus who were all employed upon the further side.
On the first occasion of our outspanning here I had the curiosity to mount this slope, reflecting as I did so that although rough it would be quite practicable for a wagon.
Despite Kane's futile experiences in July, the majority of the party maintained that a boat journey to Upernavik was both practicable and advisable.
Hearing that Congress had made appropriation for further surveys of great Western routes, Frémont hastened home in 1853, to explore by a fifth expedition, what he believed to be the most central and practicable route.
I would have been very glad to have had my boat again on my side of the island; but I knew not how it waspracticable to get it about.
While the engine was still in its trial state, a curious accident occurred which led to another change in the mode of condensation, and proved of essential importance in establishing Newcomen’s engine as a practicable working power.
In organising the works at Soho, Boulton and Watt found it necessary to carry division of labour to the farthestpracticable point.
During all this time his father’s anxiety may be imagined, though he bore up with as much equanimity as was practicable under circumstances so distressing.
The question was, how was this idea to be realised in a practicable working machine?
To persuade them that he was no mere projector, but the inventor of a practicable working engine, Savery wrote and published his ‘Miner’s Friend.
Stephen Hales found it was practicableto produce elastic inflammable air from coal and other substances, and that nearly one-third of Newcastle coal was drawn off in vapour, gas, &c.
They set out on the 7th of June, travelling by way of Coldstream and Newcastle, where they joined the great north road, then comparatively practicableto the south of Durham.
But though the Marquis did not leave the steam-engine in such a state as to be taken up and adopted as a practicable working power, he at least advanced it several important steps.
Nor yet did he neglect, by all practicable means, to augment at the same time our internal resources.
It is almost folly to attempt to effect a practicable breach in a fort built of such materials.
I did not care to make an attack on my own account from the west, for my positions were not practicable for the purpose, and being short of men, I feared that such an attempt might end in disaster.
At the earliest practicabledate military administration will cease, and will be replaced by civil administration in the form of Crown Colony Government.
In such a case it is scarcely practicable to use the method recommended for small tubes on page 12, but it is quite easy to lead a crack in any desired direction.
In order to understand the value of Edison's work in this field it should be stated that, while Bell's telephone transmitted speech and other sounds, it was only practicable for short lines.
Under such conditions the telephone would be practicable upon lines of only a few miles in extent, as the amount of power generated by the human voice is necessarily quite limited.
But in these cases special arrangements were made which would be hardly practicable in a time of actual war.
The question as to whether it would be practicable to bombard an enemy on land or sea with explosive bombs dropped or discharged from flying machines or airships, is one which is much discussed but hardly yet determined.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practicable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
