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inoperative

How to use inoperative in a sentence

That means the 2010 measure approved by all five San Diego County supervisors has been inoperative – a vestigial organ, essentially – ever since.

It’s acronym, CTC, reminds me of the inoperative Central de Trabajadores de Cuba.

Generally, the country raised more corn than it consumed—a sufficient cause for rendering protection inoperative.

Such a strange construction would render constitutional provisions of the highest importance completely inoperative and void.

There are plenty of laws now aiming at regulation of the trusts, but they are quite futile and inoperative.

The section would be inoperative without the action of Congress.

Among adult animals, however, selfishness seems to become inoperative in the care they take of their offspring.

These remodelled tradition, the Apologists made it to some extent inoperative without attacking it.

That to me would be a most repulsive idea if it were not that by its very vagueness it becomes inoperative.

PHINEAS FINNANTHONY TROLLOPE

Taking it, however, at Mr Thomson's calculation, what a fearful amount of unoccupied and inoperative capital is here!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985