How to Use inapplicable in a Sentence
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The statute itself, the court says, doesn’t provide a civil cause of action, and the Whistleblower Act was inapplicable here.
— Eugene Volokh, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2017 -
If a taxpayer is under the 199A taxable income threshold amounts and claimed the ERC, all of this is inapplicable.
— Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022 -
The first is inapplicable to Brown: when a player is formally charged with a crime of violence. Brown has not been charged with a crime and there is no reason to believe that he will be charged.
— Michael McCann, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019 -
The court correctly found Rule 143(g) to be inapplicable.
— Robert Goulder, Forbes, 18 June 2021 -
The parents’ strategy is simple: Try to use obscure and often inapplicable legal claims to force a school district to make a policy change.
— NBC News, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Although lawyers in these cases have cited them, all seem clearly inapplicable.
— David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020 -
Without a third party, the third party doctrine is inapplicable.
— Jill Priluck, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017 -
In convicting her, the trial court ruled that the press law’s statute of limitations was inapplicable because the article did not qualify as proper journalism.
— Thomas Grove, WSJ, 26 June 2018 -
Paxton challenged the lawsuit, claiming the Texas Whistleblower Act is inapplicable.
— Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 26 May 2023 -
But in Morrissette II the facts suggested that the policies would be surrendered in a relatively short time frame so that the longer time periods typically assumed were inapplicable.
— Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 6 June 2021 -
Its primary argument, unsurprisingly, takes on just how outdated and inapplicable the law the FBI has invoked is.
— Kim Zetter and Brian Barrett, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2016 -
For New Jersey residents, the limitations set forth above are inapplicable where attorneys’ fees, court costs, or other damages are mandated by statute.
— Outside Online, 3 June 2022 -
But the business-to-business exception continues to be inapplicable to an individual who is not acting as a sole proprietor or formed as a business entity.
— Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020 -
The particulars of when and how the privilege applies to someone like Bannon are thorny, but luckily are largely inapplicable to Mueller’s investigation.
— Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Jan. 2018 -
The decision overturned a state trial judge’s decision to throw out the jury’s verdict after determining the 1967 law under which Mr. Aleynikov was convicted was inapplicable because it was written before the advent of much of the digital age.
— Bess Levin, The Hive, 25 Jan. 2017 -
The only way to get around a legally applicable privilege would be to seek an order of immunity, which would protect the witness from criminal exposure and therefore render the Fifth Amendment inapplicable.
— Juliet S. Sorensen, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2017 -
The Times story outlines how UMG attempted to downplay the situation and keep it quiet as possible, which foreshadows how artists would likely argue that the statute of limitations is inapplicable in the face of fraudulent concealment.
— Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 19 June 2019 -
The provision becomes inapplicable after a three year holding period and there is an exception for family partnerships.
— Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021 -
The World Health Organization’s advice on Covid-19, for instance, is largely inapplicable in slums, where maintaining social distance is impossible in overcrowded housing.
— Flavie Halais, Wired, 1 June 2020 -
Indeed, whereas a sitting president might raise concerns about distraction from their official duties, that concern is obviously inapplicable here.
— Grace Segers, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2021 -
Lobachevsky’s work seemed to be a mathematical curiosity of immense theoretical importance — but entirely inapplicable to the real world.
— Julie Rehmeyer, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2014 -
Some courts have found the anticommandeering doctrine inapplicable to election laws, reasoning that Congress’s Elections Clause power authorizes it to regulate federal elections.
— David B. Rivkin Jr. and Jason Snead, WSJ, 3 June 2021 -
Taxpayers could avoid gross-basis withholding by electing net-basis taxation on qualified profits, defined to render transfer pricing inapplicable.
— Robert Goulder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021 -
She's accused of pretending to provide services by filing inapplicable immigration forms with immigration authorities.
— Alene Tchekmedyian, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
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