"Do you want a Marlboro cigarette?" I proposed, because I could not design anything else.
It doesn't mean we couldn't design a more convivial way that promotes wellbeing.
For ladybugs, Dr. Losey said, "you couldn't design a better place".
We couldn't design for the future, but we could design something that could adapt to what the future will bring".
"You couldn't design an incentive scheme better suited to keeping a CEO focused strictly on the short term if you tried".
"You almost couldn't design a problem that is a worse fit with our underlying psychology," says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Kit sewed well, and she had a good eye for style; she could work hard when she put her mind to it, but she couldn't design for toffee or cut a pattern.
He was told that the company had just secured an order for boat covers, so Mr. Williams rattled off ideas for camouflage and leaf prints, and wondered aloud if they couldn't design car covers as well.
"When you look at the challenges and the opportunities that SUNY faces," Mr. Cuomo said at a news conference, "you couldn't design a better record of experience, a better résumé, than the experience that Carl McCall brings to the table".
If you were an evil pop-culture robot from the future, sent back in time to fatally overstimulate the nostalgia-processing parts of our brains in 2011, you probably couldn't design an artifact as lethal as the video for "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win," by the Beastie Boys and featuring Santigold.
