inoperable

The point is that they could not have because that would be inoperable.

By the time the lump is big enough for someone to go to the doctor to get it checked out, its always stage 4, terminal and inoperable.

After a local surgeon determined that the tumor was inoperable, a heroic team at the Mayo took it out.

In extreme cases, it can lead to a crush and cause the exit to become inoperable.

If they move it, then that spoils the calibration, sure, but rendering it inoperable is stupid.

Are you surprised that disabling part of the website renders the website inoperable?

And even if successful (in that the bridge does not immediately collapse), many bridges have been rendered inoperable due to misuse or neglect.

Who in their right mind would pay full-price for a vehicle they know is going to be inoperable within a year or two?

Unless it irrevocably makes the system inoperable, I don't see this as solving for the larger problem.

A lot of things on that equipment list are inoperable.

It's battery would be inoperable at 4 degrees Kelvin, and it has no directional antenna, and it would not know where to point it even if it did.

Too bad it had been inoperable for years when I knew him.

"If you get this wrong, your monitor may become inoperable or explode" BeOS was a consumer OS, and was denied any access to consumers.

If it was discovered "routinely" outside of surgery it was stage 4 to begin with, and there wasn't any hope, and it was probably inoperable (the fact that he got an operation and only lasted 12 months suggests the op didn't do any good).