We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion.

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.

We cannot conceive of Oedipus without a Sphinx, nor of Hamlet without a Ghost.

We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

We cannot regard foreign policy as something left over after defense policy or trade policy or fiscal policy has been extracted.

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

We note that two such curves C and Af, cannot coincide at more than a finite number of points ; ;

We cannot now speak of maximizing the value of the objective function, since this function is now known only in a probabilistic sense.

We cannot consider ourselves educated if we do not read ; ;

We cannot, of course, assign it any substance.

We may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri.

We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills.

We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.

We cannot possibly conceive an ' is ' except as belonging to some thing that is, or exists.

Said Romney: " We simply cannot live in a setting where a project of this scale has the potential of threatening human life, as has already been seen ".

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

We are in an age of rearmaments, but we on this side cannot accept that position ".

We cannot define a point except as ' something with no parts ', nor blindness except as ' the absence of sight in a creature that is normally sighted '.

The words were given in response to the Latin maxim: " Ignoramus et ignorabimus " or " We do not know, we cannot know ":

We cannot tell at what date the book received its present form, since there are no clear historical allusions in it.

" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.

We cannot build a water-tight theology promising physical healing, surely, for the most ' miracle-ridden ' Christian will die in the end, yielding to the natural processes of senescence.

We cannot understand today, but it was not taken seriously at all.

We allow no underwater endurance contests, either, or inexpert versions of water polo.

We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.

John Wesley, the founder of the movement, was not prepared to allow unordained preachers to administer the sacraments: " We believe it would not be right for us to administer either Baptism or the Lord's Supper unless we had a commission so to do from those Bishops whom we apprehend to be in a succession from the Apostles.

We also allow for an empty set, often denoted Ø and sometimes: a set without any members at all.

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

We should mind our own business and allow others to mind theirs.

Around 4 July, Poisson declared Galois ' work " incomprehensible ", declaring that " argument is neither sufficiently clear nor sufficiently developed to allow us to judge its rigor "; however, the rejection report ends on an encouraging note: " We would then suggest that the author should publish the whole of his work in order to form a definitive opinion.

When I go to church, I am met by no upturned nose and scornful lip to tell me, ' We don't allow niggers in here!

We can allow the table size n to not be a power of 2 and still not have to perform any remainder or division operation, as these computations are sometimes costly.

We were given minds to allow us to live together in mutual assistance and security.

We can no longer allow our founder, our members, and allies to be dehumanized and unfairly discriminated against.

* Club of Rome report, quote: " We must also keep in mind the presence of social delays -- the delays necessary to allow society to absorb or to prepare for a change.

We allow X to be empty.

We can thereby allow ourselves to be absorbed in the activities around us until these irrationalities vanish on their own accord.

One Republican Minnesota state legislator was clear about what his party was trying to do: " We don't propose to allow the Democrats to make allies of the Populists, Prohibitionists, or any other party, and get up combination tickets against us.

We have nine of them, you know, and they are going to live in Australia when you and I are no longer here, and, by heaven, I am not going to allow anyone to ruin Australia if I can lift a finger to prevent it '

' Here is our answer: We refuse to allow you to speak for all the American people ... We refuse to be party to these wars and we repudiate any inference that they are being waged in our name or for our welfare ..." It indicates as inspiration "... Israeli reservists who, at great personal risk, declare ' there IS a limit ' and refuse to serve in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza ", the abolitionists, and " those who defied the Vietnam war " and concludes, " we will resist the machinery of war and repression and rally others to do everything possible to stop it.

We should not allow even invocations of Auschwitz to blackmail us into supporting the wrong cause .” ( Quoted in Prophets Outcast, Nation Books, 2004, p. 184 )

In 1885 Acton asserted that: " We must never judge the quality of a teaching by the quality of the Teacher, or allow the spots to shut out the sun.

We also do not allow him to interfere with his country from Zimbabwe.

Statement on Irish Free State passport ( 1927 ): We Timothy Healy, Esquire, one of His Majesty's Counsel, Governor General of the Irish Free State, Request and require, in the Name of His Britannic Majesty, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely ... etc.

" We are concerned about the flavour of this script, which, in its preoccupation with horror and gruesome detail, goes far beyond what we are accustomed to allow even for the ' X ' category.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said: We have a responsibility not to allow our nation to become a safe haven for those who provide assistance to ... terrorists.

We must never allow the successor conference in Geneva in April next year to be a repetition of this ".