Sentence examples for cannot take up from inspiring English sources

It was, essentially, that historically disempowered people cannot take up a discourse of domination.

They also cannot take up more than one seat if it interferes with other passengers' comfort, nor can they block movement on a subway by doing something like standing too close to the doors.

But America has also made it clear that India cannot take up the place it thinks it deserves as a regional superpower while it is still fighting a running battle with its neighbour.

One patient is ready to be discharged but cannot take up his self-funded place in a private nursing home for four days and will not consider going into bridging accommodation until his room is available.

In fact, Mr. Ai, dubbed "China's State Enemy No. 1" by the mass-circulation Bild newspaper in an interview published the day before Ms. Merkel landed, cannot take up an academic post in Berlin because the government has seized his passport, he told Bild here (in German).

While the OFT cannot take up individual cases, it needs victims to come forward to arm it with evidence that it can use in a "stop now order" - a new European Union legal directive that blocks businesses deemed harmful to consumer interests.

People of any age cannot just "take up" F1, as is possible with golf.

Although paint has a certain elasticity, it cannot usually take up much movement, and in paintings on wood it generally cracks in a network referred to as "craquelure".

Since biota cannot only take up but also accumulate chemicals, monitoring chemicals in aquatic organisms is an essential part of various programs that assess the chemical status of water bodies.

Human beings cannot really take up the latter standpoint but can form only an empty concept of things as they exist in themselves by abstracting from all the content of our experience and leaving only the purely formal thought of an object in general.

ZFE is solely nourished from the yolk within these first days of development and cannot actively take up nutrients and, even less so, particles.