Sentence examples for an inoperative from inspiring English sources

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

"Either they dissolve themselves, hand over their arms, apologise and recognise the harm they have inflicted, or the rule of law will dissolve them, leaving them as an inoperative acronym, like Grapo," insists Jorge Fernández Díaz, the interior minister.ETA's leadership was expelled from its sanctuary in Norway earlier this year.

Lt. Phillips, the pilot, received permission to fly the F-4B with an inoperative transponder from his superiors.

Other issues like a disruptive passenger or an inoperative television screen might provide justification for reshuffling passengers on-board.

Diagnostic tests at Mountain Home revealed that the aircraft had an inoperative radio, inoperative transponder, oxygen system leak, and a degraded radar system.

Pre-flight inspection discovered an inoperative fuel transfer pump in the 625 usgal aft bomb bay fuel tank, but a decision was made to continue anyway.

Under a barrage of sometimes angry questions from a press corps that feels it was lied to, he has been unwilling or unable to acknowledge that his previous statements are, to use a phrase famously invoked by a predecessor, inoperative.

Jane Brody's excellent column mentioned but did not emphasize the simple step of trigger guard locks rendering a gun inoperative.

The gap between the pro-identity discourse and reality could be overcome if "territorial identity", basically an ambiguous and inoperative concept, would be transformed into an analytical category, susceptible to measurement, monitoring and evaluation.

Douglas wrote an even more confining lease — it specified, for instance, that for every two days a utility was inoperative they'd get a month free of rent — and Tammaro gave them keys.

But now – and for all but about three months of the year after the Niger floods – the canal is a sandy bowl with a succession of inoperative sluices.