Sentence examples for an unenforceable from inspiring English sources

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It's an unenforceable regime that doesn't make sense".

He signed an unenforceable memorandum in which FreshDirect talks of, maybe, reserving 300 jobs for Bronx residents.

"It's an unenforceable obligation".In good times, holders of government bonds tend to forget about the flimsiness of their claims.

His department dismissed the two-hour goal, saying it was not a target but "just an unenforceable aspiration".

But crossover voters will have to sign an unenforceable pledge not to take part in rival party politics.

They also worried that the judiciary would be unable to enforce a ban on segregation, and that an unenforceable decree would undermine the legitimacy of the federal courts.

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Judge Motz noted that under Virginia's theory, "a state could acquire standing to challenge any federal law merely by enacting a statute – even an utterly unenforceable one – purporting to prohibit the application of the federal law".

It is naïve to think that colleges and universities can do what professional law enforcement has found frustratingly impossible to do, and that is to enforce an essentially unenforceable drinking-age law.

Sehgal keeps no written or photographic record of his works; no written contracts are exchanged when he sells them; and notices in galleries ask people not to photograph them – an increasingly unenforceable rule (official or press photographs of his work may be scarce, but there are plenty of images online, mostly of Sehgal interpreters in passionate, mid-gallery clinches).

Hence the miraculous working of an essentially unenforceable law.

"The statute that we have is such an unworkable, unenforceable statute," Gill told HuffPost on Tuesday.

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