Sentence examples for cannot strictly from inspiring English sources

A company cannot strictly speaking own a colour, but they are allowed to trademark it if they can justify that it represents their brand – and many have tried to enforce their exclusive claim to a slice of the spectrum in the courts.

In every transmutation, what changes cannot strictly coincide with the terms themselves of the change.

A Muslim or a Hindu cannot strictly speaking be a godparent, nor can a secularist who has not been baptised".

When we speak of the Adam who brought sin into the world and an Adam who did not, we cannot, strictly speaking, be referring to the same individual.

Descartes' claim that mere seemings "cannot strictly speaking be false" is therefore innocuous: for in isolating the mere seeming, he isolates the perceptual from the volitional.

However, the basic food classification ("introduced" and "traditional") adopted in this study cannot strictly be assimilated to the groupings "processed" and "unprocessed foods".

Augites with substantial aluminum or sodium cannot be strictly represented in the quadrilateral plane.

The explanation may be that people are looking for something that cannot be strictly measured by I.Q.

Adler explains why fantasy in the Harry Potter and Dresden Files novels cannot adhere strictly to scientific laws, and when magic might make scientific sense in the muggle world.

This restriction cannot be strictly satisfied in every application.

On this view there cannot be strictly a priori grounds for any truth.