Previous assumptions are inoperative.
ETA became virtually inoperative.
Liberalisation commitments are incomplete, with implementation sometimes open-ended, and important sectors, such as agriculture, often largely excluded.While such limited accords seemingly run foul of WTO obligations regarding regional trading arrangements, the WTO provisions have long been inoperative.
Under a barrage of sometimes angry questions from a press corps that feels it was lied to, he has been unwilling or unable to acknowledge that his previous statements are, to use a phrase famously invoked by a predecessor, 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.
An inoperative garden hose sits at the top, one last cruel joke.
There are inexpensive jammers that make cellphones inoperative within a few hundred feet.
Further testing showed that seven of the eight human V1r genes are inoperative.
The Soviet intervention, however, demanded a new consensus, because it made the existing consensus inoperative.
