Sentence examples for cannot be positively from inspiring English sources

A structure representing these hanging gardens cannot be positively identified in either the cuneiform texts or the archaeological remains.

Having been set free without any of the barnacled baggage and telltale scarring of a wild whale's travels, J. J. cannot be positively identified.

"The genetic profile, as obtained, appears unreliable because not supported by scientifically valid analytical procedures," and so cannot be positively identified as belonging to Ms. Kercher, the report said.

The other birds cannot be positively identified, but are probably ravens or swifts.

Considering the varying flocculant concentrations needed to floc the different algal species, the hypothesis that related species (Chlorophyceae) show similar flocculation behavior cannot be positively proved.

It has long been maintained by some scholars, including Chavannes, Uchida, Gao and Xue Zhongzeng that Tong Yabghu cannot be positively identified with Ziebel (or any Khazar ruler) and may actually have died as early as 626.

"You must be positively mad".

The old crone must be positively delighted.

Matt Damon would be positively thrilled.

But Protagoras' endorsement reveals an interesting subtlety in the Parmenidean thesis that what is not cannot be thought about — or more positively, the thesis that if something is had in mind, it must be.

This selection pressure increasing with latitude is highly compatible with the calcium assimilation hypothesis while the gene-culture coevolution hypothesis cannot be ruled out if a positively selected lactase gene was carried at the front of the expansion wave during the Neolithic transition in Europe.