Sentence examples for were inoperative from inspiring English sources

Watergate link: Ron Ziegler was Nixon's beleaguered press secretary, who once declared that previous statements he had made in his staunch defense of Nixon were "inoperative".

During the bombardment, Confederate officials in New Orleans dispatched the powerful ironclad Louisiana to help protect the forts, but the vessel's engines were inoperative, and it ended up serving as a floating battery anchored next to Fort St . Philip

First came his dismissal of the 1972 break-in at Democratic headquarters as a "third-rate burglary," and later his acknowledgment, under relentless questioning as the affair began to unravel, that his and Nixon's past statements denying any White House involvement were "inoperative".

The biggest effect on tourism was probably that the bateaux mouches -- the long boats plying the Seine that are Paris's equivalent of the Circle Line -- were inoperative until Jan . 7 because the river was too high for them to pass under all the bridges.

"Once the SDK releases, everyday users will be installing third-party applications without having to risk an iBrick," he said, referring to the fact that uses who installed unlocking software found their phones were inoperative after an Apple firmware upgrade.

Floodlights in the yard were inoperative and doors were often left open and unwatched.

Previous assumptions are inoperative.

Yes, some of the burglar alarms on the glass cases had been inoperative for years.

Further testing showed that seven of the eight human V1r genes are inoperative.

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

TAM has acknowledged that one of the two thrust reversers, used to slow planes during landings, was inoperative.