Sentence examples for nearly defunct from inspiring English sources

By all accounts, the Social Club Task Force is nearly defunct, according to a mayoral spokesman.

By 1978 it was nearly defunct, an occasional hall for boxing matches.

Then staff members did something peculiar: they published their reports to a nearly defunct Web site, Channel4000.com.

Just a year ago the company was rudderless, mired in debt, dipping into its endowment and nearly defunct.

His company, Mitchell Engineering of San Francisco — which once employed more than 300 people and booked annual revenue of more than $80 million — is nearly defunct.

In 1902 he resurrected the nearly defunct Sherman Antitrust Act by bringing a lawsuit that led to the breakup of a huge railroad conglomerate, the Northern Securities Company.

Perhaps if they made some bold decisions about community governance, then open-sourced the code for feature development and security auditing (closer to the approach of now-nearly-defunct Diaspora), they could hope to accomplish some of the above.

In other words, the now nearly-defunct neoconservative agenda of democracy promotion in Iran and elsewhere should not be confused with - nor more importantly, interfere with - genuine support for what is a true people's movement.

Off licences Almost defunct.

Now, more than 500 working satellites are circling the earth, along with nearly 2,000 defunct ones, 1,400 spent rocket boosters and 1,100 other miscellaneous cast-offs.

Now that Communism has been defunct for nearly twenty years, though, the cry of socialism no longer packs its old punch.