How To Use Inoperative In A Sentence
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Combining decaying and inoperative early warning systems with a ‘launch on warning’ posture for thousands of nuclear weapons is a recipe for nuclear disaster.
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In the case Thursday, Sullenberger was forced to glide because both engines were inoperative, which is highly unusual.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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This rule is inoperative until further notice.
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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.
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One organization replaced another after virtually ignoring food shortages, and electrical power and public utilities remained inoperative.
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I therefore thought that the interest of the service would be subserved by removing one whose growing indifference might render the best-laid plans inoperative.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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“Dallas pays ACS [the camera provider] a guaranteed $3,799 per month for each operational camera, and just a fraction of that to maintain inoperative cameras.”
Your City Needs You to Blow Through Red Lights - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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Some of them we will only be able to play three times before they come inoperative.
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The recognition codes which the Simonova was broadcasting should not in theory render any platform completely inoperative.
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an inoperative law
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My kids love them, naturally enough, and I can't get away with sitting them on an inoperative machine any more.
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There was a smoke detector but it was inoperative.
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His own aides embarrassed him last November by failing to give him the full details of Cheney's latest heart attack; Bush went before the cameras to offer blithe assurances that were later rendered "inoperative," as they said in Dick Nixon's days.
Right From The Start
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Telecommunications: fair system of radiocommunication stations for intercity links; broadcast stations - 6 AM, 1 FM, limited TV service; many facilities are inoperative; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
The 1994 CIA World Factbook
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They do have deflector shields, but they are currently inoperative.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
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This rule is inoperative until further notice.
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The oil-soaked ramp, which had been rendered inoperative when small-arms fire damaged the helicopter's utility hydraulics, was stuck in the down position.
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When Tit-for-Tat is inoperative, anarchism can achieve mutual cooperation only if all agents always choose to act cooperatively even when its physically possible to defect and exploit others 'cooperation*.
Planet Atheism
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It is also extinguished when surrendered to the owner by the usufructuary (though transfer to a third person is inoperative); and again, conversely, by the fructuary becoming owner of the thing, this being called consolidation.
The Institutes of Justinian
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I'm not sure why the creators of the site felt the need to sneer at attempts to revive the language "The good folk of Adelaide will not accept the learning of an ancient language as a substitute for English because of sentimental reasons"—or why the site renders my Back button inoperative, which is extremely annoying—but it's an interesting enough site I'm posting it anyway.
Languagehat.com: KAURNA WARRA.
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Having a completely inoperative disk drive is really starting to bug me.
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The inspector noted officers were not able to demonstrate operation of radio equipment, engine room ventilation fire dampers were defective and the means of lifeboat recovery inoperative.
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This last resort could either solve the problem or render the cell phone completely inoperative.
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This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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The telephone's influence is so pervasive that only when things go wrong with the technology - for example, a thunderstorm renders it inoperative - do our problem of isolation becomes apparent.
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In the event that any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement shall be declared to be invalid or inoperative, all of the remaining terms and provisions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect.
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But this short and easy method with those who take their stand on coercion and illegality was scouted by the Radical M.P. He pointed out with the same lucidity and precision with which he would have stated a case to a leading counsel, the facts (first) that the right-of-way was not only claimed, but existed; (second) that the threatening notice was inoperative; (third) that an action lay against any person who attempted to deforce the passage of any individual; (fourth) that the road in question was the only way to kirk and market for a very considerable part of the strath, that therefore the right-of-way was inalienable; and
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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Your insurance policy will become inoperative if your circumstances change.
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The fire hydrants, which are sometimes found to be inoperative during the fire hazards in the town, should be revamped.
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All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms., reply
Harvard Posts The Wolfram Alpha Preview Video — Without A Single Shot Of The Service
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Some later model Russian missiles have been recovered in anti-terrorist raids, and some of these have become inoperative due to age or poor handling.
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This resulted in buildings being non-functional, inoperative or even condemned.
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Long, however, before mesmerism was heard of, medical history attests examples in which patients who baffled the skill of the ablest physicians have fixed their fancies on some remedy that physicians would call inoperative for good or for harm, and have recovered by the remedies thus singularly self-suggested.
A Strange Story — Complete
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One wonders how the inoperative council is supposed to generate the much needed finances to liquidate the debts.
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Atanas picked up a small piece of wood and jammed it into the frame so that the safety valve was inoperative.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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In spite of the opening and closing of doors, the hasty messengers, the ringing of bells and the perpetual clitter-clack of recording implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inactive, inoperative.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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Only one phaser is inoperative, which means, offensively, the ship is almost totally effective, but defensively its lack of forward shielding makes the vessel incredibly vulnerable.
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We can conjure them away only by observing things under conditions in which the cues to three-dimensional perception are inoperative.
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There is every indication that he will find language the satisfies him that his referendum pledge is "inoperative," as Richard Nixon once said about his promises.
Giving Up Sovereignty Is a High Price to Save a Currency U.K. Never Adopted
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Administrations make language of past Administrations on certain issues 'inoperative'. 15 years after Reagan no one was repeating his cant about "the beloved Holy Mujahadeen Freedom Fighters" of Afghanistan.
"Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a 'great civilization'..."
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Where the persistent labour shortage did have significant impact, however, was in rendering inoperative a degree of racial control the sugar planters might have preferred.
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The clerk appeared a minute later and said that the car wash was inoperative, because they were cleaning it.
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Data lay stiff and inoperative, and the front of his uniform smoked where her phaser had burned through the fabric and scorched the bioplast sheeting of his chest.
The Battle of Betazed
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Mechanics placarded the autopilot as inoperative, though they did not pull or safety the circuit breaker.
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In the inoperative position, the refuelling probe is retracted into the nose of the fuselage in front of the pilot's cabin.
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Don't worry about shutting off the fuel and mags on the inoperative engine at these low altitudes.
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One wonders how the inoperative council is supposed to generate the much needed finances to liquidate the debts.
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It is a measure of the ability of the network to successfully route information from source to destination when equipment in the network is partially functional or inoperative.
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One or more pipes or the canister itself could be blocked or damaged, or maybe one of the valves in the system is inoperative.
