Sentence examples for inoperative from from inspiring English sources

The three nations remained formal parties to the treaty, but in practical terms ANZUS was inoperative from then on.

So in October 2006 the White House effectively pardoned itself by slipping a little-noticed provision into the Military Tribunals Act, conferring effective immunity from the War Crimes Act on high-level officials by making it retroactively inoperative, from 1996 to 2006.

Lt. Phillips, the pilot, received permission to fly the F-4B with an inoperative transponder from his superiors.

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

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.

Although Chalabi later denied that oil had played a role in his campaign, he gave an interview to the Jerusalem Post in 1998 in which he spoke of restoring the oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa, which had been inoperative since the creation of Israel, in 1948.

By then colonial American maritime competition with England had grown so severe that laws of 1663 required colonial ships carrying European goods to America to route them through English ports, where a duty had to be paid, but from lack of enforcement these soon became inoperative.

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.

The Douglas DC-4 was capable of flying from Perth to Adelaide with one engine inoperative.

Moreover, alternative mechanisms of refractoriness could arise from increased DDR, failure to undergo DDR and/or inoperative communication between DDR and apoptosis [46] [47].