Sentence examples for cannot simply turn on from inspiring English sources

Khatoun cannot simply turn on a tap and expect water to gush out; her home is not connected to the water pipelines of Karachi, the sixth most water-stressed city in the world.

Car companies cannot simply turn to Amazon and build-in Alexa; Alexa is not meant for in-car users.

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

As Europeans ourselves we cannot simply turn our backs on our fellow Europeans.

"In addition to the dotcom bubble, we had a patent bubble," says Mark Webbink of Red Hat, a firm that sells Linux, an open-source operating system.Companies cannot simply turn their back on what is happening in intellectual property.

The Legislature, having passed the law, cannot simply turn its back on the election and the voters, says Steven Gey, a constitutional law professor at Florida State University.

A student cannot simply turn in a shoddy paper, take the D and move on.

Reformers "cannot simply turn away from national politics," Skocpol writes.

"As a scientist you cannot simply turn off the key and put the car in the garage," he says.

Simply turn it on and go.

Don't move the car yet; simply turn it on, then turn it off again.