Sentence examples for inoperative for from inspiring English sources

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

The bill became law Sept. 18, 1914, but was inoperative for the duration of World War I.

If the cooling system remains inoperative for many hours, the water will eventually boil away, he said, and the fuel will begin to melt.

The old rule that one should pay no more than 30percentt of income for rent has become inoperative; for most poor renters, the figure is now more than 50percentt.

Even now in regions where the uplifting and relief-creating mechanisms have been inoperative for several hundreds of millions of years, the lands have been reduced by denudation to low and often nearly featureless plains.

Romney campaign officials have said the computer-driven operation they built to monitor turnout, and to push supporters to polls in areas that were falling below vote levels needed for victory, crashed and became inoperative for a prolonged period as voting was under way.

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.

However, for inoperative lesions in an adjuvant setting, metastasis prevention may have a role.

Four of the 10 inoperative stations are scheduled for maintenance in June, said Susan Buchanan, spokeswoman for the National Weather Service.

Palmer has reportedly spurned an offer of $32m for the inoperative resort, once held under the umbrella of QNI resources but now a personal asset.

The certification at one engine inoperative condition presents advantage for trijet aircraft reducing take-off thrust, since when one engine is inoperative, 75% of the installed thrust is available for the trijet aircraft, while this value is only 50% for a twin-jet aircraft.