Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being infeasible; impracticability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being infeasible; impracticability.
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- noun The state of being
infeasible orimpractical
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- noun the quality of not being doable
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Examples
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Political infeasibility is certainly a shortcoming of a legislative proposal. frt Says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Tragedy of Obama’s Climate Policy 2009
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Apparently conceding the infeasibility of the approach, the U.N. is giving up on binding agreements on the hard caps for emissions it already had in place.
Christopher Mims: Everybody Loves Clean Energy, but Nobody Wants to Pay for It -- Except for the Department of Defense Christopher Mims 2010
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Apparently conceding the infeasibility of the approach, the U.N. is giving up on binding agreements on the hard caps for emissions it already had in place.
Christopher Mims: Everybody Loves Clean Energy, but Nobody Wants to Pay for It -- Except for the Department of Defense Christopher Mims 2010
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Apparently conceding the infeasibility of the approach, the U.N. is giving up on binding agreements on the hard caps for emissions it already had in place.
Christopher Mims: Everybody Loves Clean Energy, but Nobody Wants to Pay for It -- Except for the Department of Defense Christopher Mims 2010
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In this often surreal town, the absurdist gibberish that comes out of LAWA, the city department that owns and operates LAX, about the infeasibility of bringing Metro to the terminals takes first prize in the fiction department.
Joel Epstein: LAX's Poor Excuse for Mass Transit Joel Epstein 2011
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Thus Gödel's theorems demonstrated the infeasibility of the Hilbert program, if it is to be characterized by those particular desiderata, consistency and completeness.
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In fact von Neumann went much further in taking the view that they showed the infeasibility of classical mathematics altogether.
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Just as conventional wisdom was consistently proven wrong in the 2008 presidential election, it's also proving wrong about the political infeasibility of a carbon tax.
Dan Rosenblum: Increasing Agreement on Carbon Taxes -- Goodbye 2008 Conventional Wisdom 2009
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Establishment pols say political infeasibility makes single-payer healthcare a non-starter, but the recent political tragicomedy unfolding in VFWs and gymnasiums across America have only left the Left dispirited and brought the Right, smelling blood, to the warpath.
Daniel Denvir: Why Bad Healthcare Policy Makes For Bad Politics, Too 2009
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I tend to think more according the (b), though if it turns out that the computing resources required to circumvent this infeasibility are greater then what is available in the universe (an infinitely large computer) then this problem segues into (a) as well.
Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008
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