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cannot and be
In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
they are priceless even though they cannot be recorded on a ledger page ; ;
For the answer cannot be derived from any socially cohesive element in the disrupting community.
This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.
He borrows the insights of psychology to improve his impaired vision but cannot bring to his work the distinctive vision that should be a novelist's own.
the future weight of informal factors cannot be so easily assessed.
Most now admit that Bede, Gildas, Nennius and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cannot be the infallible guides to early English history that Guest, Freeman and Green thought them to be.
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.
But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.
State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.
I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not facing the facts of life.
According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.
A more dangerous formula for national frustration cannot be imagined.
This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even of the evil of Communism.
This prime element of the truth may be stated as follows: Under prevailing policy, the U.S. can take the initiative against the Right, but cannot take the initiative against the Left.
But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.

cannot and photographed
Sixteen frames of the mirage of the Farallon Islands, which cannot be seen from sea level at all under normal conditions because they are located below the horizon, were photographed on the same day.
* " I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
However, the photographer cannot put across what he has photographed.
Although they are used heavily in children's books, they are also common in scientific literature, where they illustrate physical systems, especially ones that cannot be photographed ( such as cutaway diagrams, astronomical diagrams, and images of microscopic or sub-microscopic systems ).
Vampires cast reflections and shadows but cannot be photographed due a particular vibration of " vampire atoms.

cannot and recorded
Although the date of his birth is nowhere recorded, Constantine II cannot have been born any later than the year after his father's death, that is 879.
Until the new faculty member, Dr. Newsome, is assigned to teach at least one course, his details cannot be recorded.
* There are circumstances in which certain facts cannot be recorded at all.
Although the characters ' voices are recorded in a studio, ADR is necessary whenever members of the cast cannot all be present at once.
The phase cannot be directly recorded during a diffraction experiment: this is known as the phase problem.
Many sound effects cannot be recorded in a studio, such as explosions, gunfire, and automobile or aircraft maneuvers.
How far they made amendments is not recorded and, in the main, cannot be known because most of the originals have not survived.
A fundamental difficulty of studying ancient history is that recorded histories cannot document the entirety of human events, and only a fraction of those documents have survived into the present day.
Since nods and gestures cannot be recorded, the witness is instructed to answer all questions aloud.
Audio cannot be recorded on a VHS tape without recording a video signal, even in the audio dubbing mode.
What seems to be recorded in this are the natural suspicions that fell on the chief beneficiaries of the murder ; their actions after the murder, however sympathetic they might seem ( if actual ), cannot prove their guilt in the deed itself.
The article summarised that " without a label, or any suitable outlet for songs recorded that they feel they cannot move on from without releasing, The Cure in recorded guise are, to an extent, in limbo.
This chain of tradition includes the interpretation of unclear statements in the Bible ( e. g. that the " fruit of a beautiful tree " refers to a citron as opposed to any other fruit ), the methods of textual exegesis ( the disagreements recorded in the Mishna and Talmud generally focus on methods of exegesis ), and Laws with Mosaic authority that cannot be derived from the Biblical text ( these include measurements ( e. g. what amount of an non-kosher food must one eat to be liable ), the amount and order of the scrolls to be placed in the phylacteries, etc.
The message is broadcast across airwaves throughout the community, but there the listeners cannot always respond immediately, especially since many radio shows are recorded prior to the actual air time.
So that a buyer cannot unwittingly buy property subject to a mortgage, mortgages are registered or recorded against the title with a government office, as a public record.
After registration of legal charge, the bank's lien is recorded in the land register stating that the property is under mortgage and cannot be sold without obtaining an NOC ( No Objection Certificate ) from the bank.
In archaeological terms fire pits are referred to as features because they can be seen and recorded as part of the site but cannot be moved without being destroyed.
DVD-R can be played on consumer DVD players but cannot be added to or recorded over once finalized for viewing.
DVD-RAM can be added to and / or recorded over, but cannot be played on many consumer DVD players, and costs a lot more than other types of DVD recordable media.
Despite the tacit understanding that recorded history cannot be altered, sometimes Doug and Tony's actions are essential in causing history to unfold as it did, and the lives of individual people could be influenced by the actions of the Time Tunnel time travelers and scientists.
The latest events recorded are of the date 588, and the author cannot have lived much longer ; but of the circumstances of his death nothing is known.
Nichiren Shū regards Nichiren as Superior Practice Bodhisattva, and teaches that Shakyamuni “... is know as “ the ” Buddha, not because he attained something that ordinary people cannot attain, but because he was the first person in recorded history to awaken to the truth and to show the way whereby others could do so as well.
The exact origin of the Egyptian Mau is not recorded and therefore cannot be known for certain.

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