Sentence examples for cannot contract from inspiring English sources

Without this chemical messenger, muscles cannot contract properly.

A vein cannot contract as an artery would.

You cannot contract your way to economic growth.

During ventricular fibrillation (VF), activation waves are fragmented and the heart cannot contract synchronously.

No acetylcholine is released and the muscle cannot contract; it is paralyzed.

Medical authorities say that people cannot contract the swine flu from eating properly cooked pork.

If state auditors cannot trace contract decisions, how can potential competitors and the public?

A company cannot, however, contract itself out of the law, notes Mark Fairbairn, a lawyer at White & Case in Hong Kong.

The transit agency cannot compel contract workers to take drug or alcohol tests, the inspector general, Matthew D. Sansverie, found.

P. 72. (7) The right to appropriate and spend money under contracts or proper governmental purposes cannot justify contracts that are not within federal power.

But appropriations and expenditures under contracts for proper [p73] governmental purposes cannot justify contracts which are not within federal power.