Formerly Kardzhali was a tobacco processing center, but for economic reasons some of the communist era industrial plants are no longer operative.

"Does this mean that the Louvre agreement is no longer operative?"

With a third of public debt held abroad, the consoling thought that "we owe it to ourselves" is no longer operative.

It is as if the old aspiration, the truth shall set you free, is no longer operative.

The line is no longer operative.

Perhaps whatever phenomenon prevented manned landings before is no longer operative.

I almost smiled at the thought of iron-willed Lily being intimidated by anyone, least of all me, but my smile muscles were no longer operative.

I don't mind telling you, since it is no longer operative, that our original plan was the one most often successful in previous operations.

I think that promise is no longer operative.

The distinction is no longer operative in the Lehrstücke, Brecht argues.