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
The fourth objection, about which a dispute has occurred between the press-setters and the master finishers in Leeds, refers to the inapplicability of the common system to long lengths.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 by Various
"An English peasant," as Mr Scott has well remarked, "appears to spurn courtesy from him, in a bitter sense of its inapplicability to his condition."
From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison
Like the religious and emotional pacifism which preceded it, this rationalistic pacifism broke down through its sheer inapplicability to the facts of life.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
