Sentence examples for cannot but admit from inspiring English sources

In brief: If we admit a certain kind of entity, we cannot but admit all the other kinds of entities that figure in the identity conditions of such an entity; we admit fictional works; so we cannot but also admit fictional objects because they figure in the identity conditions of fictional works.

If, for example, my little finger were cut off and my consciousness adhered to it, "that would be the same self which was concerned for the whole body yesterday, as making part of itself, whose actions then it cannot but admit as its own now" (Ibid., 46).

In Social Statics, Spencer says "we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry".

This is a pattern that I have observed in my professional life for years: successful black men pairing up with white women, but now that the practice has come home to roost, so to speak, I cannot help but admit to feeling a bit demoralized.

But Rachman shows how, beneath the radar, Obama tacitly accepts the fact but cannot admit it because no major US politician can, it being too dangerous for their reputation.

Israeli officials add that some Palestinians sold their land to Jews but cannot admit it for fear of being labeled collaborators, while others have no papers to prove ownership of the land they claim.

Rapper Kanye West is the only person in the country who fails to get the joke, but cannot admit that he does not get it because he believes himself to be a genius.

This is the alternative narrative, which the Obama administration may suspect is true, but cannot admit because it calls into question the utility of drone attacks and U.S. special operations across the globe.

They need help... and, deep down, they probably want help, but cannot admit that to themselves.

But he still cannot quite admit that it is over.

But they cannot admit it.