Sentence examples for was operative from inspiring English sources
noun
An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.
They returned when the elevator was operative and put their ears to the wall.
"I could no longer believe that God was operative in human history".
Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, said today of Iraq's nuclear program: "Nobody said it was operative.
The results suggest that the present-day global tectonic scheme was operative in the distant past as well.
I consulted several friends about whether the "finders keepers" doctrine was operative, then begged for time: Could Matthew wait until we got two more Buzzes?
Asked why they prepared a protest form almost identical to the one they had criticized Mr. Gore for using, Mr. Ginsberg said, "I'm not sure it was operative still when people went into the counting boards".
The Coombs timeline appears to be operative.
When working against a microbe, both signals were operative.
It will be operative by autumn 2010.
Old definitions of privacy will no longer be operative.
This pathway is operative in the heart.
