Sentence examples for had been defunct from inspiring English sources

The antenna belonged to a station that had been defunct for the last decade, they said.

Palestinian groups in Syria have said that the camp had been defunct for years.

But Palestinian groups said the camp had been defunct for years.

Together they established a company under the resurrected name of Norman Norell, which had been defunct since 1996.

Fatal Attraction's disinterment marks the latest burst of activity from Paramount's recently revived TV division, which had been defunct between 2006 and 2013.

Under the bill, which is being sponsored by Assemblywoman Helene E. Weinstein, a Brooklyn Democrat, and Senator Owen H. Johnson, a Republican of Babylon, the additional money would go into a fund to hire employees for the Real Estate Finance Bureau, an arm of the attorney general's office that had been defunct and was revived last year by Mr. Cuomo.

(The Indian Point 1 reactor has been defunct for years).

These included the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), thought to have been defunct since the 2000s.

Last year was a big one for Fluxus, despite the fact that this international network of artists, composers and poetic pranksters has been defunct for several decades.

Now that Communism has been defunct for nearly twenty years, though, the cry of socialism no longer packs its old punch.

But the RMS, the Republic of the South Moluccas, has been defunct for decades, other than as a nominal government-in-exile in the Netherlands.