Sentence examples for it inoperative from inspiring English sources
Samsung was forced to hobble it before rendering it inoperative with a software update.
Five years later, of course, it was Douglas's own hand that not only disturbed the Compromise, but, by engineering the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, rendered it "inoperative and void" in those territories.
The advice of the generals on the ground... the patriots who put country before politics... the contemptible surrenderists... the timetables that mean that the terrorists have won... all the Republican rhetorical crap of the post-Mission Accomplished era, which was masquerading as statesmanship, is now -- as the Nixon crowd called it -- inoperative.
The BP section of the site is a good way from the explosion and survived with very little damage, but it was inoperative as of 2009.
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.
In the U.S. the problem is that there is a fiscal instrument, but it is so polarized and broken it is basically inoperative.
"When you buy a press, it's usually inoperative," said Runge, as we passed giant piles of freshly printed sleeve art for Kraftwerk albums.
While tensions remain high on the divided Korean peninsula, the Kaesong industrial complex remains a beacon of hope for those that want to see more collaboration between the two states, even though it is currently inoperative.
When the smear backfired, it declared its previous statements inoperative and said the White House wasn't responsible.
Whatever the explanation, it was soon enough inoperative.
During the bombardment, Confederate officials in New Orleans dispatched the powerful ironclad Louisiana to help protect the forts, but the vessel's engines were inoperative, and it ended up serving as a floating battery anchored next to Fort St . Philip
