inoperable

Defence Secretary John Healey told MPs that "without this deal, within weeks, we could face losing legal rulings and within just a few years the base would become inoperable".

Bush was on auto pay for a time, paying $124 a month for the inoperable landline.

He said he had “rendered inoperable” all the guns he was about to use in his demonstration.

In previous evidence to the Commons' Welsh Affairs Committee Ian Davies confirmed that there were "berthing incidents" on 6 and 7 December which rendered both ferry terminals inoperable.

Diamond had been diagnosed with an inoperable sarcoma, a rare kind of cancer, according to his family.