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1862. Daily News, 10 Jan., 4/3. The case of the seizures on board the Trent was an apt illustration, providentially happening in the nick of time to demonstrate the utter unworkability of popular institutions.
1869. John Mayer, in Proc. Philos. Soc. Glasgow, VII. 183. Besides this unworkability of the system of rewards, it would doubtless give rise to all manner of jobbing.
1881. Nature, XXIV. 371. The then existing laws … were in a state of … confusion and unworkability.
1886. Times, 7 April 9/1. By conceding this point to the illogical scruples of his colleagues he [Gladstone] has added to the unworkability of his plan without in the smallest degree improving it from the point of view of Imperial unity.
