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In French, we commonly say, for example, that a path is "praticable" meaning that it can be crossed.
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The majority of the country wants us out of Iraq as soon as praticable, and “praticable” gets shorter and shorter with every day and every lie.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Forrest Gump Democrats- ‘Stupid is as Stupid Does’ 2005
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The majority of the country wants us out of Iraq as soon as praticable, and “praticable” gets shorter and shorter with every day and every lie.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Forrest Gump Democrats- ‘Stupid is as Stupid Does’ 2005
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All possible eventualities should be thought of and provided for as far as praticable.
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Making tax avoidance (it's tax evasion which is against the law) illegal sounds lovely, but I don't see such a sweeping ambition being praticable, do you?
The Guardian World News Michael White 2010
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If they have been given a licence to drill they have to satisfy the HSE conditions that risk be mitigated to as low as reasonably praticable.
Greenpeace UK - Comments soulmate 2010
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America should immediately initiate plans for withdrawal from Iraq as soon as praticable.
Seeing the Forest 2009
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America should immediately initiate plans for withdrawal from Iraq as soon as praticable.
Seeing the Forest 2009
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Tiny systems and lower quantities were not praticable in this way.
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