How To Use Inapplicable In A Sentence

  • At first sight, the concept of ‘handedness’ is inapplicable to completely limbless animals, and thus it is difficult to imagine a right-handed snake.
  • “priests;” and much more is the name inapplicable to the sramanas or bhikshus of Buddhism which acknowledges no God in the universe, no soul in man, and has no services of sacrifice or prayer in its worship. A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
  • You really -- Oh! my dear Lady Trant, this must not go farther -- and positively the word jilt must never be used again; for I'm confident it is quite inapplicable. Tales and Novels — Volume 07
  • I had supposed the appellation inapplicable to a gentleman!" answered Sercombe, with entire coolness. What's Mine's Mine — Complete
  • Las Casas found this definition inapplicable to the Indians but fit for the Spaniards, who unleashed “massacres” against the harmless indigenes. Bloodlust
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  • Flora, says it is possessed of active properties; the root having a sweet, pungent, aromatic taste, similar to that of the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumb.); he thinks it milder than the P. senega, and, therefore, adapted to cases in which that is inapplicable. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • It is believed that, in addition, the rule would be inapplicable if a clause respecting further advances to be made by the first mortgagee was brought to the second mortgagee's attention.
  • The rule is inapplicable to this occasion.
  • Take from it what you will, and ignore what you find inapplicable to your own life. I hope you find it as beautiful as I do.
  • There is no evidence of such a payment so the general rule is inapplicable.
  • If the couple are mere cohabitants, the MWPA 1964 is inapplicable and on the face of it the common law rules will apply.
  • rules inapplicable to day students
  • If the injury sustained was an inherent risk of the procedure, then the doctrine will be inapplicable.
  • Bound and measure are terms inapplicable to the Divine sacrifice. The Reformed Evangelist
  • A modified version of this argument seems to me much sounder in general, but inapplicable to the present case.
  • Where fully automatic techniques are inapplicable, semi-automatic equipment can combine the advantages of manual and automatic welding.
  • I cannot pretend to do much, being but a shallow philologist; yet, since I received your last Number, I have lighted on a passage in that volume of "omnifarious information" Croker's _Boswell_, which will not be deemed inapplicable. Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • Universities, when he says that their education is made up "of words that few understand and most will shortly forget; of arts that can never be used, if indeed they can even be learnt; of histories inapplicable to our times; of languages dead and even mouldy; of grammatical rules that never had living use and are only post mortem examinations; and of statements fagoted with utter disregard of their comparative value. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • Inseparable accidents are those which — although we know of no connection between them and the attributes constitutive of the species, and although, therefore, so far as we are aware, they might be absent without making the name inapplicable and the species a different species — are yet never in fact known to be absent. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • Ah, heck ! Another inapplicable designation. The staff here can't even make use of their calculators right!
  • In the case of cashcards, which involve bipartite agreements, and of electronic purses which are treated like cash, the last problem is inapplicable.
  • In these days, Parliament has passed one law, which it amended twice because it turned out that it is inapplicable in reality.
  • These regulations are inapplicable to international students.
  • What's striking about this proposal is how utterly inapplicable those arguments are here.
  • But as we cannot describe or think out the Absolute in itself, beyond stability and movement, beyond unity and multitude,—nor is that at all our business,—we must accept the double fact, admit both Shiva and Kali and seek to know what is this measureless Movement in Time and Space with regard to that timeless and spaceless pure Existence, one and stable, to which measure and measurelessness are inapplicable. Archive 2008-09-01
  • States in seceding as they did, (through regular conventions,) makes the term rebellion inapplicable to their conduct. The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.
  • The rule is inapplicable to this occasion.
  • Nor was the phrase inapplicable; for, in a letter, to which I have mislaid the reference, the Earl of Northumberland writes to the King and Marmion
  • So, what we have here is a situation where what we normally think of as legal procedures simply are inapplicable.
  • Estimates based on proximal limb-bone circumference data are more accurate but are inapplicable where postcranial remains are unknown.
  • If these writers possessed some illumination in their own fields-English or Media Studies, say, or Semiotics-the term would be inapplicable.
  • Are such pronouncements context-specific in a way that renders them inapplicable today?
  • From the beginning of my promotion efforts it was evident that the consumer education model as applied to colleagues is inapplicable for our academic setting.
  • They are inapplicable to orders made by a court of unlimited jurisdiction in the course of contentious litigation.
  • It sounds so wise and fine, but is really too one-dimensional or inapplicable to our multitudinous problems that at best, it temporarily inspires us and then fails to make a difference.
  • My research showed that the questionnaire concerned was basically inapplicable to general population groups.
  • His model of how disease spreads is inapplicable to the AIDS epidemic.
  • Inseparable accidents are those which — although we know of no connexion between them and the attributes constitutive of the species, and although, therefore, so far as we are aware, they might be absent without making the name inapplicable and the species a different species — are yet never in fact known to be absent. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • The current Apiculture Act, adopted in 1983, was completely inapplicable to new social conditions, the authors wrote in their reasoning for the bill.
  • Professionally, if not artistically speaking, Doré passed straight from child to man; in one sense of the word he had no boyhood, the term tyro remained inapplicable. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
  • The idea that term limits are necessary to unseat jaded officials and rouse lazy voters could not be more inapplicable in New York City now.
  • That fact makes certain legal rules formally inapplicable, and the novelty of the situation creates a dilemma for both the government and for immigrants.
  • I think it makes much more sense to say that a precedent is being “applied” when there is no relevant difference that makes the rule of law announced in the precedent inapplicable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional
  • The arbiter appears to the undersigned to have viewed the rivers St. John and Restigouche as possessing both a specific and a generic character; that considered _alone_ they were _specific_ ', and the designation in the treaty of "rivers falling into the Atlantic" was inapplicable to them; that considered _In connection with other rivers_ they were _generic_ and were embraced in the terms of the treaty, but that as their connection with other rivers would bring them within a principle which, according to the views taken by him of other parts of the question, was equally realized by both lines, it would be hazardous to allow them any weight in deciding the disputed boundary. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
  • These regulations are inapplicable to visitors from outside the European Community.
  • We need to target resources towards generating relevant evidence rather than recycling inadequate or inapplicable evidence.
  • Thus this Court must uphold the Probate Court's decision to find laches inapplicable to this action.
  • As the sense of ‘breathing-placeÂ’ appears to be inapplicable to the earliest use of the word (see sense 1) in French and English, the name may originally have been given to the piece of armour from a real or fancied resemblance to some other article so designated. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • In sum, a careful analysis of the Levitt and Venkatesh study suggests that present orientation is at best an incomplete and often inapplicable theory of crime.
  • Even in Christianity, beyond the priestly privilege which belongs to all believers, I object to the ministers of any denomination or church calling themselves or being called "priests;" and much more is the name inapplicable to the sramanas or bhikshus of A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline
  • It is not useful to quantitate the “proper” values in a set of calculations that are simply inapplicable. Gore Gored: Monckton replies « Climate Audit
  • With a late tax return showing a tax underpayment, the mailbox rule is inapplicable.
  • He cited that the law was over 36 years old and was inapplicable to today's conditions and that it should be updated in order to more effectively deal with modern business operations.
  • WHEREAS section 9 of the Organic Act of Puerto Rico, 39 Stat. 954 (48 U.S. C. 734), provides that "the statutory laws of the United States not locally inapplicable, except as hereinbefore or hereinafter otherwise provided, shall have the same force and effect in Puerto Rico as in the United States"; and EXECUTIVE ORDER 10005
  • unidiomatic," furnishing numerous examples from varied sources that inadvertently prove the adjective to be inapplicable. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
  • Chemical flocculation in conjunction with sedimentation for solid matter separation is generally inapplicable in rural water supplies of developing countries for a number of reasons, such as unavailability of chemicals, inadequate dosing equipment, difficult operation and maintenance procedures, as well as lack of local technical skills and trained operators. Chapter 5
  • But while these are promising examples of an approach that pursues truth above all else, they are inapplicable to the United States for two reasons.
  • Further, this principle should not be inapplicable simply because the citizen paid the money under mistake of law.

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