Sentence examples for cannot be expected to act from inspiring English sources
The United States cannot be expected to act as the world's policeman.
"By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe," Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth Action, said in a statement.
Eurostar, owned 55% by SNCF, the state-owned French national railway, is set up as an independent commercial concern, so it cannot be expected to act according to French national interests.Even so, Alstom clearly sees an opportunity to block the contract and perhaps engineer a re-tender.
The Ministers supporting it cannot be expected to act as if they were under oath in a court of law".
"By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe.
Communities are themselves overwhelmed and under resourced, and cannot be expected to act in isolation.
If Mahmoud Abbas cannot or will not eliminate such content from his own controlled media, how can he ever be expected to act effectively against armed terrorists determined to murder innocent Israelis (an objective he has repeatedly disclaimed)?
