inapplicability

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Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.

From Slate • May 9, 2022

Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2017

I understand the last śloka as showing the inapplicability of "presumption" or arthá-patti.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

I am free to confess that theodicies of all sorts strike me as proofs of the inapplicability of the religious view of the world.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

What I am concerned to point out is simply the inapplicability of Newman's argument to one in Fitzjames's state of mind.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir