Sentence examples for cannot be proved to have from inspiring English sources

There are some exceptions to the fear created by antiquities that cannot be proved to have reached the market before 1970.

And even if he cannot be proved to have violated the constitution, they argued, he has betrayed the public trust "wilfully, consciously and maliciously".

Many suspect that objects that cannot be proved to have been acquired before 1970 — the cutoff date set by the Unidroit convention — will become financially worthless or exceedingly difficult to negotiate.

In the US, the First Amendment still does not apply to all sexual communications under the Communications Decency Act, if they are "patently offensive under local community standards" and cannot be proved to have "redeeming social value" by the author – particularly if they are kinky and non-heteronormative.

However, that may not be the case indefinitely, as a state law has mandated that by 2015 all roads that cannot be proved to have been public will be declared private land — this also covers any right of way that has been in place for more than 200 years.

The American philosopher William James (1842 1910) refined this approach by limiting it, among matters that cannot be proved, to belief-options that one has some real inclination or desire to accept, carry momentous implications, and are such that a failure to choose constitutes a negative choice.

So, in asserting that it cannot be proved, it has to be telling the truth.

If he had a birthmark (and this cannot be proved), it would have added to his self-consciousness when he came to London.

Other cases are not taken because even when negligence is obvious, it cannot be proved that the patient would have fared differently if no mistake had been made.

While Dr. Netz acknowledges that his findings cannot be proved with absolute certainty, he has presented the work to other scholars, and they say they agree with his interpretation.

In its simplest form a presumption is an inference permitted or required by law of the existence of one fact, which is unknown or which cannot be proved, from another fact which has been proved.