Sentence examples for * inoperative from inspiring English sources

Previous assumptions are inoperative.

ETA became virtually inoperative.

Whatever the explanation, it was soon enough inoperative.

As the investigation into Watergate unraveled, Mr. Ziegler admitted that his previous statements had become "inoperative".

This renders Section 5 inoperative unless Congress comes up with a revised version of determining coverage.

Unknown to the children, an inoperative.38-caliber handgun was concealed in a cabinet drawer.

The long list of violations committed by these carriers ranged from inoperative horns to cracked frames.

Facts that have been exposed as false, for instance, are rendered "inoperative".

Yes, some of the burglar alarms on the glass cases had been inoperative for years.

The canal remained inoperative until June 1975, when it was reopened and improvements were recommenced.

The Soviet intervention, however, demanded a new consensus, because it made the existing consensus inoperative.