It would be manifestly inapplicable to the force of gravity as defined by Newton; for this is a force varying inversely as the square of the distance; and to affirm the constancy of a varying force would be self-contradictory.
While perfectly applicable to living things, these terms express qualities which are not only inapplicable to common chemical agents, but, as far as I can see, actually inconceivable of them.
The wages of any other labour are here an inapplicable criterion.
They were ready enough to announce useless and inapplicable discoveries and conclusions; byproducts of their research, they called them, with an obviously selfconscious attempt to speak the language of industry.
We both fell silent after this catalogue, quite inapplicable to the situation, and it was with heartfelt thanks I distinguished each fault and seam in the Dover Cliffs as well as the breaking line of surf below.
But wellgroomed and feminine were alike inapplicable adjectives.
The judges who presided there resorted to some obsolete, inapplicable act of Parliament, and were weak enough to lay down the law in the manner suggested to them by the chancellor, so that a conviction was obtained.
There is no suggestion of toilet or accident, and hence the attitude is quite inapplicableto a goddess.
I should admit, indeed, that the ordinary notion of merit becomes inapplicable (see pp.
An engine of this kind must therefore necessarily have considerable dimensions and weight, and is inapplicable to uses in which a small and light machine only is admissible.
These would therefore be more properly called condensing engines than low-pressure engines; a term quite inapplicable to those of Woolf.
It would therefore be inapplicable where steam is worked expansively.
These descriptions, it will be observed, apply exclusively to the southern regions on the east and west of Ceylon; and, in many particulars, they are inapplicable to the northern portions of the island.
These precautions are inapplicable to such cases as we are now considering.
The law of slander, partially applied to attorneys, ought perhaps to be wholly inapplicable in the case of barristers.
Thus the property of the lever, the inverse proportion of the weights and arms, was known as a fact before the time of Aristotle, and known as no more; for he gives many fantastical and inapplicable reasons for the fact.
They are inapplicable where the almost universal landlord is the state, as in India.
They are inapplicable where the only capitalists are the landlords, and the laborers are their property, as in slave countries.
They are inapplicable where the agricultural laborer is generally the owner both of the land itself and of the capital, as frequently in France, or of the capital only, as in Ireland.
It is further inapplicable to all matters rich in ammonia, particularly putrid urine, as it destroys the ammonia and evolves a large amount of gases, some of which have a repugnant odour, and are perhaps not quite innocuous.
Consequently, the name of typhus fever given by some veterinary surgeons, is not altogether inapplicable to it.
As to the inward intuitions that we enjoy of that higher something which is in three ways imparted to us, the mathematical mode of procedure is plainly inapplicable to them.
Even when several labourers are employed in an establishment, the test is inapplicable to those who are engaged upon indispensable tasks; for example, the engineer in the boiler room of a small factory, and the bookkeeper in a small store.
The gentleman ought, therefore, to confine his motion to the army debt, as his principle seems inapplicable to any other.
Mr. LEWIS, and he particularly remarked, that the Common Law of England was entirely inapplicable to the subject under consideration.
Many of those objections appeared to him totally inapplicable to the subject, which he should pass over in silence.
The idea of a daily allowance must be given up, as inapplicable to the situation assigned him by the constitution.
Yet he found that all his observations on the white race were inapplicable to negroes.
We put aside, therefore, any argument, drawn from precedents, showing the extent of the power which the General Government exercised over slavery in this Territory, as altogether inapplicable to the case before us.
Even should it be allowed that the sanctuary and the altar might be measured, the injunction is altogether inapplicable to the next following clause: them that worship therein.
From all that has been said, it must be obvious that nothing is here spoken of Babylon inapplicable to Jerusalem when we think of this latter city in the light in which the Seer specially regards it.
To what kinds of taxes, if to any, is the principle of progression inapplicable and why?
What arguments advanced in favor of bimetallism in 1896 are inapplicable to-day?
Again, this waiting for conviction--this habit of listening to the arguments on each side, however excellent in general life, is inapplicable in politics.
Your observation on drifting into war is most just: though I always thought Clarendon's epithet in this one case inapplicable as well as unadvisable.
Young authors, and especially young authoresses pestered him to review their books, though his patience and good nature make 'pester' seem an inapplicable word.
