The phrase "associations cannot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing limitations or restrictions related to associations in various contexts, such as legal, social, or organizational matters.
Example: "In this context, associations cannot operate without proper authorization from the governing body."
Alternatives: "associations are unable to" or "associations must not".
Associations cannot refuse accommodation 'to a transsexual person', but it can still be precarious for trans people if anyone around them takes exception.
On which of the seven candidates he now favours to replace him, Blatter said: "At least 140 national associations cannot exist without Fifa.
Well-defined associations cannot be established between production characteristics and enzymatic activities, and rumen microbial diversity in cattle fed tropical forages and receiving protein supplementation.
However, these associations cannot clarify whether this relationship is causal or due to a shared set of causal factors or even confounding.
Housing associations cannot be compelled by regulators to sell their homes under the Government's implementation of its Right To Buy extension, the housing minister has confirmed.
While the famously automobile-shunning mayor is already hailing the plan as the best way to get traffic moving, critics, including small businesses and residents' associations, cannot quite believe it is actually going to happen.
These results suggest that it is possible to induce specific positive emotions by flavour conditioning in the absence of active ingredients for novel but not for familiar flavours, confirming that existing associations cannot be easily erased by new conditioning.
The direction of causality of these associations cannot be determined in a cross-sectional study.
However, a player moving between different football associations cannot move back to his parent club until the transfer window reopens.
Because these factors were measured at the same time as health status in the current analyses, the directions of these associations cannot be established.
Although bidirectional associations cannot be ruled out in a cross-sectional study, the results suggest that FI may contribute to cognitive impairment among HIV-positive adults in the US.
