Sentence examples for remained inoperative from inspiring English sources

The canal remained inoperative until June 1975, when it was reopened and improvements were recommenced.

Some units at the adjacent Cardon refinery, which had also been halted, remained inoperative, the company said.

Twenty-two raincludingncluding the Tohoku Shinkansen, remained inoperative for one month after the earthquake (TRB 2013).

Circumstances may arise where poor visibility makes detection of utilities difficult for a facility manager, causing problems to remain unnoticed and resources to remain inoperative.] Moreover, workers intending to correct an issue but who are unfamiliar with a facility may have difficultly locating themselves, as well as locating a specific room within a facility.

If the cooling system remains inoperative for many hours, the water will eventually boil away, he said, and the fuel will begin to melt.

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

The remaining 179 patients with inoperative NSCLC had the initial assessment after the first two courses of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy: 37 achieved PR and 117 were regarded as SD and these 154 patients (PR + SD) were eligible for the final analysis.

If the American analysis is accurate and emergency crews at the plant have been unable to keep the spent fuel at that inoperative reactor properly cooled — it needs to remain covered with water at all times — radiation levels could make it difficult not only to fix the problem at reactor No. 4, but to keep servicing any of the other problem reactors at the plant.

ETA became virtually inoperative.

Previous assumptions are inoperative.

Whatever the explanation, it was soon enough inoperative.