Sentence examples for cannot clinch from inspiring English sources

And if unionist politicians cannot clinch that argument, against the populists and the disaffected, they had better move aside to let others try.

Neagle to Start Game 5 Knowing that Seattle cannot clinch this series in Game 5, Joe Torre settled on Denny Neagle as the Yankees' starter for that game.

I'm not favoring it.' " The Yankees cannot clinch the division outright until at least after Saturday afternoon's game because Boston defeated Baltimore, 4-2, tonight.

But they are not exactly kingmakers, in that their 40 seats cannot clinch a winning coalition for either Mr. Allawi, who won 91 seats, or Mr. Maliki, who won 89.

The United States leads the group with a 4-0-1 record, buthehe Americans know they cannot clinch a place in the 2002 World Cup even by winning Sunday.

Rangers cannot clinch the Premier League championship on Saturday, no matter what happens then and before, while some of the gloom on account of Old Firm defeat on Saturday has been lifted at Parkhead.

If a passporting deal – giving access to the remaining 27 members of the bloc – cannot be clinched, he said, operations might need to be beefed up in places such as Ireland.

Mr. DeSantis said that Mr. Gingrich accepts that he cannot win enough delegates to clinch the nomination.

The Giants cannot win their division — the 12-1 Cowboys clinched the National Football Conference East on Sunday — but could probably lose their three remaining games and still earn an invitation to the postseason in January as a wild-card team.

"They are going to clinch it eventually, so we cannot worry about them.

If they cannot get their advice accepted in the clinch – or, worse yet, if they have no useful advice to offer – the whole enterprise of economic scholarship has failed in its most essential duty.