Sentence examples for cannot be turned on from inspiring English sources

Militancy cannot be turned on and off like a spigot to accommodate political pressures.

You can pretend to believe whatever you want, but real belief requires some conviction, and this cannot be turned on or off at will.

The power in those cables has been turned off, and cannot be turned on again until the cables to the World Trade Center are sealed.

The system is supposed to add stability and maneuverability over normal 2-wheel steering, although I found it difficult to compare because the system cannot be turned on and off.

The taps cannot be turned on at anything like the speed with which demand is growing.

However, due to the nature of widely applied traditional mercury lamp, which cannot be turned on and off efficiently, the study of periodic illumination was limited.

The embargo was agreed on by all EU member countries; it cannot just be turned on or off.

They are incompatible with any decent settled family life – reliable childminders cannot generally be turned on just in time, children do not oblige with sickness to order.

Candles, or for that matter solar lights are a far more economical way of lighting your garden, but they cannot of course be turned on at the flick of a switch, which makes them not so user-friendly in our modern and demanding age.

But Berwick says the clock cannot be turned back on moves that are under way everywhere to improve the co-ordination and quality of care as the Act requires, he says.

The nuclear plants cannot be turned back on until the rest of the grid has power produced by other plants running on coal, gas or other fuels, said Scott Burnell, a spokesman for the regulatory commission in its headquarters in Rockville, Md. Neela Banerjee, Kenneth N. Gilpin, Carl Hulse, Christopher Marquis, Andrew Revkin and Matthew L. Wald contributed to this article.