Sentence examples for I cannot pin from inspiring English sources

While I was interviewing the artist David Salle, I was coincidentally writing a book that was giving me trouble, and although I cannot pin it down exactly (and would not want to), I know that after each talk with Salle in his studio something clarifying and bracing did filter down to my enterprise.

I watched the bloke in the two matches against Belarus and South Korea at Old Trafford and I genuinely cannot pin point his strength.

We cannot pin this one on George.

They cannot pin this losing streak on quarterback play or special teams or defensive breakdowns.

He was the key lieutenant of former boss Justin King and, unlike his rival at embattled Tesco, he cannot pin blame on his predecessors.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the central tenets of quantum mechanics, maintains that you cannot pin down all the physical properties of a particle at the same time.

"We cannot pin it on individuals, but the evidence draws us to the conclusion that the only place these passports could have been cloned is when they were inspected at the Israeli border or in other countries, where they were passed to Israelis," said one source.

Unfortunately, because of the relative rarity of the event – and therefore the shortage of data with which to look for a pattern – we cannot pin the timing of large earthquakes down to a particular decade, let alone a month, day, or hour for evacuation.

More often, the ideology behind the act must be guessed from its location (gentrifying neighbourhoods like Kreuzberg or Friedrichshain) or the sort of car targeted (the more expensive the model, the more political its immolation).Investigators cannot pin anything on far-left factions like the so-called "Autonomen", who seem no more numerous this year than in previous ones.

You cannot pin all the blame for bogus index funds on fund companies.

As this was against a backdrop of generally falling violent crime in that period, we cannot pin the fall on gun laws alone.