You cannot rent a car without a driver's license.
If you have no right to be here, you cannot rent a flat or a house.
Companies that lose business — fishermen who cannot fish, or hotel owners who cannot rent out rooms — can seek damages.
Generally speaking, you cannot rent intangibles — copyrights, reputations, trade secrets, memories, honesty, deliciousness, and so forth — but there are exceptions.
You cannot rent education, but there are some enticing semester-long rental deals on textbooks, a welcome gesture, since last year college students, on average, spent $1,122 on books.
The automobile rental companies, however, contend that they cannot rent to young drivers because insurance companies will not provide coverage for drivers under age 25.
But he cannot rent them to the highest bidders -- banks, brokerage firms and the like -- because of a zoning ordinance passed by the borough council last December.
Others argue that they cannot rent to housing benefit claimants even it they wanted to, because of conditions attached to insurance policies or mortages.
Despite having a part-time job, Raja cannot rent a property: his history with the Home Office and the years of not being allowed to work mean he cannot pass the necessary credit check or show three months of payslips.
Mr. Hayashi described a "vicious circle" that often sends older people back to prison: Once outside, they cannot find work; without work or a guarantor, they cannot rent an apartment.
