Sentence examples for becomes inoperative from inspiring English sources

The worrying spectre was raised of temperatures climbing to the point where snow-making machinery becomes inoperative; revenue was lost at the crucial Christmas/ New Year period; and the relationship between the skiing business and journalists did deteriorate.

Since many growth factors are acting in parallel to regulate these pathways, any one pathway system is robust and maintains function if one growth factor becomes inoperative.

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

A board evenly divided between the parties would quickly reach a stalemate and become inoperative, much as the Federal Election Commission has become.

There have been "offensives' "operations", and other military maneuvers carried ou by means of facts; there have been facts that disintegrated and facts that broke sown and became inoperative.

The Incas expanded and projected on earlier, pre-Incan solutions and adaptations; in the process, many tactics that had worked well on a smaller scale became inoperative; others were reformulated in such ways that their original outline was barely recognizable.

Marshall conceded he did not make any decisions of his own to alleviate the developing crisis, or give orders to his officers, who he agreed became "inoperative" and "ineffective" at the turnstiles, despite doing their best.

The old rule that one should pay no more than 30percentt of income for rent has become inoperative; for most poor renters, the figure is now more than 50percentt.

By then colonial American maritime competition with England had grown so severe that laws of 1663 required colonial ships carrying European goods to America to route them through English ports, where a duty had to be paid, but from lack of enforcement these soon became inoperative.

Romney campaign officials have said the computer-driven operation they built to monitor turnout, and to push supporters to polls in areas that were falling below vote levels needed for victory, crashed and became inoperative for a prolonged period as voting was under way.

In a report filed on the agency's Web site, the automaker said that if snow or ice were to build up on the windshield, restricting movement of the wiper arm, a nut might loosen and the wiper could become inoperative.