But today, the contract is a dead letter and the two officials are out of work.

However, this committee met only three times without any major impact and rapidly became a dead letter.

These ideas may well remain a dead letter, since there is no evidence of any political will to turn them into reality.

His tax plan is a dead letter; he damaged relations with Congress.

It is possible that some of the agreements reached will be dead letters.

However, both commitments continued to remain dead letters by 2010.

It is clear that this law has been all but a dead letter.

What does he think I am, a dead letter?

You have forgotten that a conviction, in itself, is nothing but a dead letter.

If not a dead letter, it is close to a laughingstock.