Sentence examples for inoperative language from inspiring English sources

The committee's recent amendment to its rules merely deleted the inoperative language of the old rule, which required the committee to transmit such a subcommittee report to the full House.

ETA became virtually inoperative.

Previous assumptions are inoperative.

Whatever the explanation, it was soon enough inoperative.

As the investigation into Watergate unraveled, Mr. Ziegler admitted that his previous statements had become "inoperative".

This renders Section 5 inoperative unless Congress comes up with a revised version of determining coverage.

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.

Inoperative rockets are prone to random explosions of the unused fuel they carry.