An inoperative law. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : inoperative remedies. ,The earlier rule is now inoperative. From Dictionary.com.
In the case Thursday, Sullenberger was forced to glide because both engines were inoperative, which is highly unusual. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Up Sovereignty Is a High Price to Save a Currency U.K. Never Adopted] Reference
If that's now "inoperative," it's big - and unwelcome - news. From Wordnik.com. [The Corner on National Review Online] Reference
They were false or "inoperative" or whatever their latest excuse is. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
In Rove's case, is that statement inoperative, too?. From Wordnik.com. [Can We Go Home Now?] Reference
Gas pumps are often inoperative during power outages. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane tracker: Earl becomes major storm, threatens East Coast] Reference
The first was inoperative and the second was misspelled. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Murphy: Transparencygate!] Reference
Arabsat (inoperative); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Changing conditions have apparently rendered it now inoperative to that end. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Those assertions are now inoperative, as they used to say in the Watergate days. From Wordnik.com. [Can We Go Home Now?] Reference
A hot line between the government and the rebels, inoperative for years, is back in service. From Wordnik.com. [WORSE THAN WAR] Reference
Without this provision, they would be inoperative in more than half of the late rebel States. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
Congress prohibiting the sale or gift to him of intoxicants become substantially inoperative. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Yet the bait did not tempt him, and the system was soon discarded as useless and inoperative. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Snow and ice buildup on the windshield or wipers could cause the wipers to become inoperative. From Wordnik.com. [Car, pickup truck, SUV, and tire recalls] Reference
Television broadcast stations: 1 (1987 est.) note: limited TV service; many facilities are inoperative. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
The bill became law, however, though it has largely proved inoperative, Mr. Gladstone also opposed the. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
It had been argued against the third section that it could not be enforced, that it would be inoperative. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Television: broadcast stations: NA; note - limited TV service; many facilties are inoperative televisions: NA. From Wordnik.com. [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference
A recommendation of the Board of Trade, which still leaves the matter open, is plainly useless and inoperative. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
April 17, 1885, declared to be inoperative and of no effect, and all persons upon the land were warned to leave. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Other customers are being turned away or allowed to purchase inoperative iPhones they can activate later from home. From Wordnik.com. [iPhone 3G: U.K. review, U.S. problems] Reference
"If one side seizes the port, the other side can shell it and render it inoperative," says U.S. Ambassador Daniel Simpson. From Wordnik.com. [Lining Up At The Exit] Reference
Washington agreed to permit Moscow to keep an inoperative SS-20 in a museum at a missile-training base in the Soviet Union. From Wordnik.com. [Protest] Reference
(Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Arabsat (inoperative); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
As it now stands, it is limited in operation to the period of the war and becomes inoperative upon the formal proclamation of peace. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
This is a formula which, in many cases, is made to sanction monstrous injustice, and in all cases, I may say, is practically inoperative. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
"I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the pope's bull against the comet.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
I notice this case chiefly to show that our present law is inoperative in the case of a class of prisoners of which this one was a fair type. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
Now if the elevators at a particular subway station aren't working - inoperative, I am denied access to get in that subway station in or out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Low-Income Minorities With Disabilities See Services Disparity] Reference
And now she was disquieted lest the idea of taking her picture, which she felt was very flattering, should remain inoperative in the painter's brain. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In this era of global warming, it is inoperative, because the whole point of controlling greenhouse-gas emissions is to do something about the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Let’s Just Call It ‘Cap and Tax’] Reference
His back yard was dominated by a weird, jungle-like garden, a swing set made out of railroad ties and fence posts, and an old and inoperative beehive. From Wordnik.com. [The Boundary Line] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
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