Sentence examples for cannot counsel from inspiring English sources

In one sense, Alexie is — and is well aware of being — the quintessential literary novelist, who, in Benjamin's terms, "has isolated himself,... is himself uncounseled and cannot counsel others.

SNAPCHAT: I cannot counsel thee on thine taste, such as it is, my good sir. But allow me to extend this offer: permit me, with a single gesture, to prove my invention's worth beyond all argument.

Mr. Almlie, 37, has been shocked, he says, at what he calls unfair discrimination, based mainly on irrational fears: that a single pastor cannot counsel a mostly married flock, that he might sow turmoil by flirting with a church member, or that he might be gay.

I don't think there's anything that I cannot counsel on.

One physician cannot counsel one patient to lose weight and take physical exercise and not counsel others in a similar way.

Defendants who cannot afford counsel cannot obtain even minimally adequate assistance.

The assignment of the Shahzad case to the office is a reminder that most federal defendants cannot afford counsel, and somebody has to represent them.

Ms. Gatto is one of a dozen trial lawyers in the Manhattan federal defenders' office, which each year, along with an office in White Plains, represents 1,600 people who cannot afford counsel.

Immigrant detainees are allowed to hire lawyers, but more often than not, they cannot afford counsel or are shuffled through the system before they have a chance to find help.

Perhaps the most satisfying cases we've made relate to the protection of low-wage workers, who are immigrants often, who come to this country, often cannot find counsel, and they are working seventy, eighty hours a week for a buck-fifty an hour — violations of the law, and we have managed to get millions and millions of dollars back for them.

The office, which represents thousands of defendants each year who cannot afford counsel in the federal courts in Manhattan, Brooklyn, White Plains, and Central Islip, N.Y., also won the only acquittal in recent years on a capital count in a federal death penalty trial in Manhattan (the jury convicted the defendant on other charges).