Sentence examples for cannot affect the question from inspiring English sources

Hence these distinctions between the two types of immunity cannot affect the question with which we are now concerned.

"While the advocate general notes that difficulties may arise from a ratification process involving all of the member states alongside the EU, she considers that that cannot affect the question of who has competence to conclude the agreement," she wrote.

That the petitioner is held under the authority of a state cannot affect the question of the power or jurisdiction of the circuit court to inquire into the cause of his commitment, and to discharge him, if he be restrained of his liberty in violation of the constitution.

But that consideration cannot affect the decision of the questions of constitutional law involved.

Where the ground involved is substantive, the determination of the federal question cannot affect the disposition if the state court decision on the state law question is allowed to stand.

A federal court is without power to decide moot questions or to give advisory opinions which cannot affect the rights of the litigants in the case before it.

The irreversibility arises from causality, that events in the future cannot affect the present.

It added, "He cannot affect the policy of the U.S. or Pakistani government.

Numbers cannot affect the imagination the way that images of catastrophes do.

These private recounts cannot affect the outcome of the election, of course.

If we cannot affect the past, it would be good to know why we cannot.