Sentence examples for no longer dependable from inspiring English sources

But once these tests are linked to high-stakes consequences, like teacher pay, tenure or the closing of schools, the results are no longer dependable for diagnostic purposes, either for schools or individual students.

The time-hallowed bonds between master and servant, and the codes by which both live, are no longer dependable absolutes but rather sources of ruinous self-deceptions; even the happy yokels Stevens meets on his travels turn out to stand for the post-war values of democracy and individual and collective rights which have turned Stevens and his kind into tragicomic anachronisms.

'Income from the sale of poultry and small ruminants bring in income as 'nunu' is no longer dependable'.

When a country was no longer dependable, Germany assumed full control, as it did with France in 1942, Italy in 1943, and Hungary in 1944.

If one is no longer dependable and the other has no popular support, the structure of the ruling class will be dangerously unsettled.

Tissues regenerate but less reliably, no longer dependable, ever on the brink of losing control and throwing a tumorous tantrum or letting hair fall out or grow in ridiculous places.

In addition, his hands are afflicted with arthritis and playing has become sufficiently painful that his timing, always precise and effortless, is no longer entirely dependable.

"The Matrix came out in 1999, and there was a lot of paranoia about the millennium, about machinery, about our information systems no longer being dependable, once 2000 rolled around.

But at a time when tracking's influence on a film's box-office fate has never been greater, chronic inaccuracies have led industry observers and some studio chiefs to conclude that tracking may no longer be a dependable box-office barometer.

For a start, the government wants to end the system of permanent council tenancies – which was cemented while Margaret Thatcher was in power – and replace it with arrangements that will be reviewed every two to five years, meaning that for new tenants, council housing will no longer represent anything secure or dependable, let alone be passed between generations.

But this once dependable formula is no longer enough.