Sentence examples for effectively defunct from inspiring English sources
After the invasion, the Iraqi program was found to have been effectively defunct for years.
Though the IRA is effectively defunct and extreme Protestant groups have promised to junk their remaining weaponry within months, small but deadly splinters remain.
The allegorical element is effectively defunct, but this doesn't mean that the matter should be left to sea dogs and the gender police.
Despite his best efforts, Dewey is now effectively defunct, as most of its partners have left for competitors and junior lawyers and staff have been let go.
The reason it won't happen is that the bargain enshrined in the Nonproliferation Treaty -- the bargain Iranian authorities wish to see fulfilled -- is effectively defunct.
The Russian banker also told American prosecutors that the group organized by Sobinbank to buy DKB and Flamingo involved at least five other banks, some of which are now effectively defunct as a result of the 1998 financial crisis, though they were a who's who in Russian banking at the time.
The band never formally broke up but it effectively is defunct, having literally marketed itself to death.
Unlike that now-defunct group, Islamic State effectively controls much of the Tigris-Euphrates basin, an area the size of Britain, with little interference until now.
Ms. Levitan, who once worked for Crate and Barrel as an assistant store manager, said the company had been able to glamorize domestic items more effectively than the more utilitarian Lechters, now defunct.
Malthouse, to whom Johnson delegated the day-to-day role at the now defunct Metropolitan Police Authority, later assumed the role for the mayor's office for policing and crime – effectively the first elected police commissioner role – in January.
