Sentence examples for cannot reckon from inspiring English sources

I cannot reckon how a pen can create insecurity for these leaders.

My fear is that we cannot reckon with the difficult truths of real works of art, that the disturbance we feel when reading Alice Walker's "Color Purple" is rated too disruptive to the analysis of student yearly progress to be read for a test.

While Defoe had Crusoe relate his own story, Harding describes Cave's solitude mainly in the third person, and in language that has a period flavor (though happily it's not a slavish pastiche): "He huddles curled, immobile, within the few square yards of warmed space before the stove, his awareness so dulled that he cannot reckon the hours".

In this context, the study of Biasco et al beautifully demonstrates that PICs have to follow social rules: they cannot reckon without their host.

It cannot, reckons Dr Rogers, be a coincidence that a single supercontinent with a Pangaea-like configuration emerges time and time again.

Please note, there is no known connection between homosexuality and pedophilia; the point is, an institution that cannot honestly reckon with the sexual orientation of its ministry can hardly be trusted to face the question of a frightening sexual disorder.

Yet they cannot have reckoned on such an ambitious supporting cast: an audience, hand-picked to ensure a range of political allegiances, of consistently high calibre.

Chattopadhyaya (1989) argues that since Jayarāśi criticises all philosophical views and schools, he cannot be reckoned as an adherent of the Cārvāka / Lokāyata tradition, because one can either be a materialist or sceptic; and clearly Jayarāśi's philosophical views do not fit into the typical materialist framework.

In a letter, Melnik wrote: "Her attitude is childlike, and altogether she cannot be reckoned with as a responsible adult, but must be led and directed like a child.

But often police and prosecutors reckon they cannot get enough evidence to secure a conviction and throw in their cards.

The trend predates the housing boom and bust; the crisis cannot explain it.Some reckon the decline is caused by demography.