inapplicability

Example Sentences

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Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.

From Slate • May 9, 2022

Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2017

They were shown the inapplicability of such instances to the present cases of difficulty.

From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by Gray, William Henry

Froude did not lay hold of the American mind, as he might have done, by showing the inapplicability of the Federal System which suits the United States to the circumstances of the United Kingdom.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

The inapplicability of this progression idea to our object is evident directly we apply it to space.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich