Most engineers figure a car needs to go 300 miles between fill-ups to be practical.
But the key here is for people to be practical and not to score political points.
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Time Shift may only now be practical, but it was hardly a new concept.
But there will be practical constraints, and he'll face counter arguments from Conservative members of the cabinet.
The result is that despite the strength of the materials, the process is too expensive to be practical.
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Be practical and master a look that works for your industry and lifestyle.
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In both cases, silicon chips are too rigid and expensive to be practical.
And my hope is that my Republican friends, but also Democrats, say to themselves, let's be practical and let's do both.
Sites like Greenwashing Index and Ecolabel Index try to help, but the lists are still too long to be practical.
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Voice control wouldn't be practical in all situations, but it could be enormously helpful for certain operations, like adjusting settings or reviewing images.
Even with the computation occurring at a data center, a Watson smartphone application would still consume too much power to be practical today.
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And, although the pharmacological significance of chirality was evident in the 1930s, separating the mixtures was until recently too painstaking to be practical.
An using the biomarker to predict or identify cerebral malaria, he said, would not necessarily be practical, given the sudden onset of the disease.
But her equally big-boned mom, Edna, played rather sweetly by John Travolta, urges her to be practical, and think about working at Edna's Occidental Laundry.
The report said it would not be practical to refurbish the building, removing all the asbestos, given other upgrades and safety improvements that would needed.
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Some "get creative flashes at random times, like at night in their beds, " when powering up a digital device may not be practical, she says.
Emotional payoffs must be practical, even in matters of the heart.
The stem cells would have to be taken from a donor as it would not be practical to store fluid from every birth, just in case.
One is we believe that a CR should be practical, it should be non-political, and it should be consistent with levels of the Budget Control Act.
In the late 19th century, Impressionist painters challenged the status quo by creating pieces void of historical significance or realism, emphasizing that art need not be practical.
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Libya's rapidly growing population will need extra water for domestic use, but Colonel Qaddafi's ambition to make the country self-sufficient in food is not going to be practical.
While the idea of moving forward and backward in-game with an analog stick on the side of a gun controller seemed unintuitive at first, its execution turned out to be practical.
Last week, three big oil companies, including Chevron, said it could be practical to develop a massive oil field that is way deep below the waters the Gulf of Mexico.
While trying to automatically decipher our preferred squads from searches is nice, it might not be practical when we're just looking up information on our fantasy football players so this should be a help.
Also new this year is RAW shooting -- a feature that could help position this mid-range model as a companion shooter for advanced amateurs and pros alike, for those occasions where a full-size rig wouldn't be practical.
Yet, when the grown-ups must point out that such a purchase would neither be practical nor in the best interest of the family and cast their votes for a new, American made family minivan, it is left to the two year old to break the tie.
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