Sentence examples for inoperative at from inspiring English sources

Toilets that use electric pumps to flush, or laser eyes that cue toilets to flush automatically, rendered bathrooms inoperative at the Marriott Marquis.

In many developing countries where water supply and sanitation facilities have already been installed, it is estimated that 30 60 % of existing rural systems are inoperative at any given time (Brikké and Bredero 2003).

To justify this behaviour, an additional consideration in the Poole–Frenkel model was proposed which allowed to conclude, that the circumstantial agreement with the density of state model at the highest range of electric field results from the fact that the traps become inoperative at this range of field, and not because the traps were really absent.

7m,  8,  11 We stress here that this chirality induction operates at a strictly supramolecular level and is inoperative at the small, covalent molecular level, for instance in vortex biasing enantioselective reactions from achiral reagents or catalysts.

The Department of Buildings has received at least 15 complaints about defective and inoperative elevators at the building since 2002.

Marshall conceded he did not make any decisions of his own to alleviate the developing crisis, or give orders to his officers, who he agreed became "inoperative" and "ineffective" at the turnstiles, despite doing their best.

If the American analysis is accurate and emergency crews at the plant have been unable to keep the spent fuel at that inoperative reactor properly cooled — it needs to remain covered with water at all times — radiation levels could make it difficult not only to fix the problem at reactor No. 4, but to keep servicing any of the other problem reactors at the plant.

An inoperative garden hose sits at the top, one last cruel joke.

Although Mr. Krahling does not suggest inoperative cameras be placed at cash registers -- the likeliest spot for an armed robber to approach -- he says that placing them in aisles is highly effective in reducing petty crime.

The worrying spectre was raised of temperatures climbing to the point where snow-making machinery becomes inoperative; revenue was lost at the crucial Christmas/ New Year period; and the relationship between the skiing business and journalists did deteriorate.

Similarly, farmers and ranchers who want technical advice and financial credits for participating in vital land and soil conservation programs are finding phones unanswered, websites inoperative and doors closed at local Agriculture Department offices.