So we can agree that many of the ideas, in fact all the ideas of liberal education are totallyinoperativein local situations.
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As is the case at the local and provincial levels, the national party bureaucracy is largelyinoperative.
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When she espies the two bodies on the road and applies her brakes, she discovers that they are suddenlyinoperative.
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But unlike any forces known in gravitational attraction, they had to be conceived as selective, limiting, andinoperativebeyond a fixed (stoichiometric) stage.
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In fact, who can be heard asserting that market forces were inefcient orinoperativeanywhere?
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If the experimenter then learns that the thermometer wasinoperativeat temperatures of 105 or greater but still accurate below 105, should this change the inferences that are made?
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However, the scheme was reallyinoperative, even in 1985, because the old unified procurement price was so low that the market price could hardly drop below it.
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This structure is indeed largelyinoperative.
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The present law governing the militia has been on the statute books for one hundred and ten years and has long since beeninoperativeand obsolete.
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The vehicle, among other things, had no lights, faulty brakes, aninoperativehandbrake, a faulty exhaust and bald tyres.
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They are clumsy, tedious, costly, andinoperative, and they have been so for nearly twenty years.
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It is unnecessary to cost the effect of these cumbersome provisions, as they will be repealed at the first opportunity and will meanwhile remaininoperative.
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The tenth initiative relates to the tightening up of hygienic handling of eggs, and isinoperativewhile we await new statutory action.
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The two walk-through metal detection scanners referred to have beeninoperativefor three years.
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Why did he say then that they wereinoperativeand, indeed, unnecessary?
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