| Well, many politicians and others use historical allusions, and they almost always are inapt because no two situations are the same. |
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| An article in last Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle makes a particularly inapt comparison. |
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| In fact, I have seen this Act described as a treaty and I do not know whether, in real terms, that is an entirely inapt description. |
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| But the comparison to Eisenhower's notorious caginess strikes me as quite inapt. |
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| I think the metaphor is completely inapt and is really an apples-and-oranges sort of thing. |
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| They don't seem to realize how the use of this inapt example demonstrates their inability to grasp the nature of new and different conflicts. |
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| In such circumstances it is inapt to burden the courts of Jersey with this case in any way. |
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| Are also prohibited: ammunition in operating condition, casings and projectiles, unless they were made inapt for shooting. |
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| That analogy is singularly inapt to this particular situation. |
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| This inapt degree of welfare has been publicly acknowledged as a triggering factor for the low social status and recognition of teachers in society. |
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| Everybody on TV seemed to like it, but I found it ... not exactly inappropriate, but inapt. |
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| I had been comparing the arcs with rainbows, which now seems inapt. |
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| And it strikes me as a singularly inapt analogy to make, an analogy that ought to make one question its user's underlying thinking about the problem. |
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| This type of person is is easily influenced, non-authorative and inapt of decision making. |
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| No disease is so dreadful and imminent that it cannot be made worse by the inapt application of an experimental treatment. |
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| Dismissal for economic reasons and disability making the interested party inapt for work, do not involve the loss of the quality of associate. |
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| A quarter of a century later, it is apparent that this characterization is inapt. |
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| He would notice that talking of natural controls strikes some people as solecistic, but he thought it was they who were using inapt metaphors. |
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| The Agency's lawyer submitted that the state of extreme emaciation of the animal in conjunction with the severe lesion on its jaw, rendered it inapt for transportation. |
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| It might be easy to regard its destruction a kind of failure, but, as Watson has demonstrated time and again, this would be inapt, if not mistaken. |
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| By contrast, the new Act extends the possibility of family reunification for children who are of age but who are not self-sufficient or inapt for work. |
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| This is in particular the result of the different characteristics of different transparent plastics as described above, which make them specially apt for certain applications and inapt for other applications. |
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| The album is collecting small stories about people who are inapt with real situations in their lives and what kind of world they invent to survive. |
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| The existing procedures and structures are very largely inapt, and there is little visible sign of the impact made by the contributions of civil society organisations and networks to framing EU policy. |
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| In a society which recognizes and praises the best, the strong, the accomplished, we have no choice but feeling inapt, unworthy, hopeless and rejected during times of depression. |
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| The analogy to WTO decision-making is inapt. |
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| A penguin or a clucking hen logically might satisfy the ascertainable criteria of birdness but remain somehow inapt for excavating focal meanings. |
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