Sentence examples for had never functioned from inspiring English sources

An inquiry determined that the chemical used in the attack was a liquid component from old French tear gas grenades that had never functioned properly.

But he has never functioned on the court at the same level since.

"But since leaving the service, I have never functioned in any intelligence capacity".

Walton writes that the N.S.A.'s regime for safeguarding the privacy of Americans whose data is collected in the metadata program "has never functioned effectively".

Highway officials in Maine face the prospect of spending millions of dollars to fix a toll system that opened four years ago but that has never functioned properly.

He is considered a likely future leader of Congress, which has never functioned for long without a Gandhi or a Nehru in charge.

Complicating Salvador's mobility challenges are the public transportation debacles symbolized by a lavishly expensive subway system that somehow has never functioned.

Judge Reggie Walton's ruling that the N.S.A.'s regime for safeguarding the privacy of Americans whose data is collected in the metadata program "has never functioned effectively".

He noted that the FISA court's orders "have been so frequently and systemically violated that it can fairly be said that" the N.S.A. program "has never functioned effectively" and that "thousands of violations" occurred.

Despite the title bestowed on Smith, the N.T.R.A. has never functioned as a commissioner's office because it had neither rules to enforce nor the power to enforce them.

He cited a 2009 ruling that concluded that the requirement had been "so frequently and systematically violated that it can fairly be said that this critical element of the overall... regime has never functioned effectively".