How to Use unenforceable in a Sentence

unenforceable

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  • This is the third time one of the Trump campaign's NDAs has been declared unenforceable.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Supreme Court rendered that section of the law unenforceable in 2013.
    David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The judge, instead, should find the statute unenforceable and leave it to lawmakers to go back to the drawing board.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • In too many cases, the rules are unenforceable or have large gaps.
    Alan Wolff, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2023
  • That, as well as the Speaks Out Act that makes the nondisclosure act unenforceable, caused Grant to file the lawsuit.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Such bans have been unenforceable for the past five decades, but states could look to revive them if Roe is overturned.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • Such bans have been unenforceable for the past five decades, but states could look to enact them if Roe were overturned.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 26 May 2022
  • In terms of being unenforceable, that’s not at all true.
    David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The suit is dismissed and Clifford’s claims ruled moot, as the NDA had been rendered unenforceable.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • Wiping away sweat with a hand should be avoided, perhaps the most unenforceable rule of them all.
    John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
  • Powell and Luccia’s suit in 2014 alleged that the HPO is void and unenforceable.
    Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2020
  • And if the culture of free speech dies within the legal profession, the laws on the books will become unenforceable.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The World Bank said in a recent report that the cap might be becoming unenforceable.
    Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But the city didn’t get approval for the amendment from the board and Dallas voters, which the fund says is required by city code, making the new rule unenforceable.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • While racial covenants have been unenforceable since 1948, they were still abided by for decades until the Fair Housing Act.
    Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Who gets the armrests and what are the other unwritten and unenforceable rules of air travel?
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Ivey has acknowledged that Roe v. Wade may make the law unenforceable.
    Leanna Faulk and Tina Burnside, CNN, 19 June 2019
  • In 1973, the law was transferred from the Texas penal code to the state’s civil statutes and deemed unenforceable after Roe was decided.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 27 June 2022
  • First, these tariffs are too tiny and too unenforceable.
    Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2018
  • In a 4-3 decision, Canada's Supreme Court ruled that the clause is unenforceable.
    Burcu Noyan, Fortune, 23 June 2017
  • The law was set to take effect July 11 but is now unenforceable while being challenged in court.
    Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The bill would make many of these laws unenforceable, ending the practice in scores of communities.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • In that case, a federal judge held in March that certain provisions of the NDA were unenforceable.
    Paula Reid, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The code adopted by the court was largely panned by judicial ethics experts as weak and unenforceable.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • But the Supreme Court noted that 11 of 12 states that have addressed the issue have found that waivers for for-profit companies are unenforceable.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2019
  • The lawsuit is asking that the district’s resolution be struck down by the court and that it be declared unenforceable.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 1 July 2022
  • Eight months ago, the Supreme Court adopted its own code of conduct to alleviate the blowback against the Court in the last year, though the regulations are unenforceable.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 12 July 2024
  • The contracts were unenforceable because the women were induced to sign them by fraud and coercion.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2020
  • But the measure is likely to make at least one vaccine mandate unenforceable.
    Jeff Amy, ajc, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The weak ethics code enacted by the Supreme Court last year does not tighten financial disclosure rules and is largely unenforceable.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024

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