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How To Use inoperative In A Sentence

• Combining decaying and inoperative early warning systems with a ‘launch on warning’ posture for thousands of nuclear weapons is a recipe for nuclear disaster.
• In the case Thursday, Sullenberger was forced to glide because both engines were inoperative, which is highly unusual. Top Stories - Google News
• This aspect of aesthetic community is not the same as what another French philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, terms the "inoperative community," the longing for the original idea of community that was lost or broken in the transition to modernity, the dialectic of what sociologists term Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit
• Russia: Country Outlook While hailing the moment, Mr. Medvedev tempered his praise with a warning that any "qualitative and quantitative increase in [antiballistic missile] capability" could render the treaty inoperative. After Arms Pact, a Push to Ratify
• The consequence is that they need to perhaps reframe their legislation, in order that their legislation will not become inoperative as a consequence of section 109.
• It was also to insure that no one could alter the cars (in the US) so that the pollution controls were rendered inoperative in order to get more performance at the expense of gas mileage or emissions.
• This aspect of aesthetic community is not the same as what another French philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, terms the "inoperative community," the longing for the original idea of community that was lost or broken in the transition to modernity, the dialectic of what sociologists term Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Vince Carducci: Aesthetic Community in Detroit
• This rule is inoperative until further notice.
• The modular nature of the equipment not only permitted operation of the system when some modules are inoperative, but also permited convenient expansion to increase capability.
• One organization replaced another after virtually ignoring food shortages, and electrical power and public utilities remained inoperative.