Inoperative

“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.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

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 (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

In the case Thursday, Sullenberger was forced to glide because both engines were inoperative, which is highly unusual. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Irwin Stelzer (2010)

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. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This was before the Justice Department voter suppression scandals broke, so I guess that promise is "inoperative" now, just like the promises the GOP made after caging scandals targeting minority voters in New Jersey and Louisiana 2 decades ago. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In one sweeping statement, Mises has negated Christendom and every social, economic, and moral teaching of the Catholic Church; this statement also renders "inoperative" the entire Classical moral and philosophical tradition. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As he points out, Mises and, even more so, Rothbard advocated a social order that negate[s] Christendom and every social, economic, and moral teaching of the Catholic Church [and] also renders "inoperative" the entire Classical moral and philosophical tradition. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They were false or "inoperative" or whatever their latest excuse is. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If that's now "inoperative," it's big - and unwelcome - news. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Levinson's insertion: Unfortunately, Dean Ferrick's argument might have been rendered "inoperative" as a result of the successful attempt of Bill Clinton's supporters to argue that nothing he did, whether lying to his Cabinet and procuring their help in covering up his misconduct by vouching for him, or giving arguably perjurious responses to depositions or the grand jury, constituted the kind of "high kind and misdemeanor" justifying impeachment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The department also advises that although telephone service is inoperative in many areas, Americans may be able to reach loved ones in Japan via text message or social media such as Facebook or Twitter. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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 (2011)

I can't [watch] [television] today because my [TV] is INOP. ❋ Doctormail (2009)

INOP: Who's [downloading]?! I'm [lagging] in this [pub]! *pounds keyboard* ❋ Lifteddc (2008)

1) INOP, like [icepop], but you don't [put it in your mouth]. Wait, yes you do. 2) INOP like IPOD, except without music. However music can be included for an added effect. 3) INOP like IHOP, but no pancakes are involved, unless that's your style. 4) INOP like PINO ([Grigio]...as in the wine), however, the cost of the wine isn't included. Despite this the wine is often worth the extra cash and has a very good chance of enhancing the experience. 5) INOP like COP, costumes are available if you are kinky like that. ❋ Ilana_And_Ilan (2006)

INOP: Who's [downloading]?! I'm [lagging] in this [pub]! *pounds keyboard* ❋ Lifted (2008)