Sentence examples similar to in practice inoperative from inspiring English sources
The three nations remained formal parties to the treaty, but in practical terms ANZUS was inoperative from then on.
Conflicts in a local management committee resulted in the inoperative state of a pico-hydro installation, while the lack of finances accounted for the failure of a PV system of rural Health Centre.
In contrast, this mechanism was inoperative in a fibroblast cell line that did not assemble extensive heterochromatin during senescence.
The meeting served as the latest example of the deep partisan rift that has left the Senate dysfunctional and, at times, inoperative in carrying out some of its most basic functions like voting on presidential nominees.
These altered patterns seem to relate to the closing down of essential brain circuits that, if they do not function in childhood, are probably inoperative later on.
By the time the Valkyries made a reappearance in their catsuits, rendering inoperative Waltraute's (anyway inaudible) report that Wotan had them under house arrest, I caught myself yearning for Viking helmets.
But there is sufficient reason to suppose that the terms in question would not have been introduced but for the introduction of the old debts, with which they happened to stand in a familiar though inoperative relation.
