Sentence examples for cannot simply play from inspiring English sources

It is incredibly frustrating that you can plug the Power Gig guitar into a real amplifier (where it works as a very cheap electric guitar, according to my guitar-playing friends), but you cannot simply play it as a real instrument through your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Many children in the country today cannot simply play outdoors or walk to a mosque without the persistent threat of being killed".

While Nest's thermostat has some scaling issues to it — for example in the UK people cannot simply plug and play, but have to get professionals to install the devices because of the difference in electrical voltage — the same is not true for the Protect, which comes in a battery-powered version that can work, and therefore be sold, worldwide.

Artists cannot get away with simply playing traditional guitar music any more, Barker believes.

I simply played that.

Tim Tebow simply cannot play a pro passing game at the level required to be successful at it.

Given his averages (36 with the bat and 35 with the ball) it is disingenuous in the extreme for Afridi to suggest that he simply cannot play Test cricket, though he was clearly a terrible choice as captain.

"And we simply cannot play silly Tinkerbell games to massage the ego of some god suffering from low self-esteem".

In Mancini and City's current position, and there is still so much to play for, he cannot simply trust to luck and the hope Balotelli will deliver for him.

A: Informal forces are always at play -- you cannot simply turn them on and off by command.

Ribéry cannot simply decide for himself whether he wants to play for France or not".