Sentence examples for inoperative control from inspiring English sources

In a periodically intermittent control, every control period consists of two parts: 'work time' for operative control and 'rest time' for inoperative control, which provides a spectrum of possibilities between the extremes of continuous-time and discrete-time control.

The flight crew quickly realized that the initial failure had left all hydraulic systems, and therefore all control surfaces, inoperative.

The "defeat devices bypass, defeat or render inoperative elements of the vehicles' emissions control system," the EPA said in a letter to manufacturers.

Without power to warm the fuel supply, the thrusters became inoperative and the satellite spun out of control, leaving the satellite antennas unable to fix on Earth.

Previous assumptions are inoperative.

ETA became virtually inoperative.

Whatever the explanation, it was soon enough inoperative.

Unknown to the children, an inoperative.38-caliber handgun was concealed in a cabinet drawer.

The long list of violations committed by these carriers ranged from inoperative horns to cracked frames.

Facts that have been exposed as false, for instance, are rendered "inoperative".

Yes, some of the burglar alarms on the glass cases had been inoperative for years.