Sentence examples for the operative clause from inspiring English sources

Instead, he thinks that we should forget militias and concentrate on the operative clause.He further argued that "The 18th-century meaning [of 'arms'] is no different from the meaning today".

He wrote that the "prefatory" clause (that first bit about the militia) made no important restriction on the second ("operative") clause about the right to bear arms.

Regan McCarthy New York, Dec. 16, 2007 • To the Editor: Adam Freedman correctly notes that the commas in the Second Amendment are of no interpretive significance, and that there is a logical relation between the amendment's prefatory phrase and its operative clause.

For two of them the operative regulatory clause is 'pH < 4'; we take the Boolean variable c i corresponding to pH to be zero (false) for these two genes.

But the justifying, or purpose, clause there does not seem to limit the operative one.

The operative constitutional provision in this case is the Necessary and Proper Clause.

The operative word: early.

"Nearing" is the operative word.

"Gradually" is the operative word.

Flash was the operative word.

The operative word is "plainly".