Sentence examples for cannot effect from inspiring English sources

He correctly concludes that teachers alone cannot effect this change.

But it cannot effect a code change (that's a matter for the editors' code committee).

A motion in parliament cannot effect the legal issue in this case".

Results of a poll in the report records 72% of respondents saying they cannot effect the outcome of the nuclear weapons debate so they do not engage on the issue.

You give a commitment, you do it for the right reasons - which, as I said, pensioners need a much longer time if you are going to make changes to their income, because they cannot effect that change.

Yet it prefers to deal with him than with Mr Putin, and it would prefer Mr Medvedev to remain as president next year.The Americans know they cannot effect change inside Russia.

On the other hand, methods depending on physical properties often cannot effect a satisfactory separation of a mixture of compounds possessing very similar physical properties; sometimes such mixtures can be converted by chemical treatment into a mixture of new substances that can be more readily separated; the separated components may then be reconverted into the original compounds.

Members' debates cannot effect change directly; they do not end with a vote.

On Aquinas' theory the species cannot effect the sense organ and cause a cognition, he seems to think.

Nevertheless, since the fall has darkened our minds and subjected our bodies to corruption, we cannot effect our own salvation without the assistance of God's word made flesh.

In the group cooperation, each group member peer has to be trustworthy so that malicious behavior of a member peer cannot effect overall outcome of the whole group.