Sentence examples for has been inoperable from inspiring English sources

The sprinkler system has been inoperable since the collapse of the adjacent World Trade Center damaged the tower.

That decision would depend on a number of factors, including the amount of time the elevator has been inoperable and an assessment of the owner's efforts to minimize the problem for tenants.

Other Hubble renovations include the installation of a new cooling system on an infrared instrument that has been inoperable since 1999 because of a coolant leak, and replacement of the main power switching controller, which has been degrading after almost 12 years in space.

Then, officials said, he submitted phony receipts to the Department of Finance indicating that the vehicles had been inoperable when they were ticketed and could not be moved.

He denied that phones had been inoperable or that attorneys are unable to schedule calls with their clients.

They found serious malfunctions in the system including some alarm systems, cameras and sensors that had been inoperable for nine months.

One day during a visit to the hospital of the University of Khartoum, I was stunned to discover that the hospital had only one 15-year-old CT scanner, which had been inoperable for the past 18 months.

The then 10-year-old Violet understood that the kind of cancer she had was inoperable, and she knew she was going to die.

"You'll be pleased to know the front has been made inoperable, filled with cement," Mr. Fisher assured the judge.

Thereafter, Isaac (Faran Tahir), a hospital technician, brings Dr. Derek Shepherd Patrick Dempseyy) a scan of his tumor, which has been declared inoperable by several other physicians due to its complexity.

The Pogues guitarist Philip Chevron has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer.