Sentence examples for cant from inspiring English sources

As she puts it: "Just cause i cant spell or know Grammar / doesn't mean i don't know Many things!

Robin Dunbar, the director of the institute of cognitive and evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, showed the audience how he had scientifically unwrapped the sentiment and cant surrounding modern ideas about friendship and the enhancing role of social networking technology.

And given the infrastructure costs involved in the former and the loss of tax revenues needed to get the latter off the ground, you cant help but think that less glamorous options which don't rely so heavily on trickle down economics might've been a better bet.

In private, peers, MPs and officials describe a debate steeped in self-interest and cant.

Avoiding Hitler What the world is reading Written in anger Utility's limits Dissident politics on the net Where life began Rights and wrongs of genetic engineering Gout and glory The big empty ReprintsFirst and foremost, "The Pity of War" demolishes standard British cant about the war.

Everyone thinks his debunking of wrongdoing clothed by cant applies beautifully to their political opponents.The real story, as often the case with saints, is a bit more complicated.

That said, Mr Putin's rhetorical table-thumping was just as calculated as the Khrushchev sort: after years of post-Soviet weakness, oil-rich Russia will behave as Mr Putin sees fit.Mr Putin's speech contained a large dollop of self-serving anti-American cant.

At their Belgrade conference in 1961 he stood out boldly against cant, and lifted their eyes from obsessive concern with decolonisation towards their duty to world peace.

First, employment in the routine occupations identi ed by Autor et al. (2003) and others account for a signi cant fraction of aggregate employment; averaged over the jobless recovery era, these jobs account for more than 50% of total employment.

Maybe, but it was still cant for the media to blame them because "it's all about football, not the real issues".

And for all his moralising cant, he did not hesitate to shift his golf ball when he had a bad lie.Along with the hypocrisy, came such tiresome maxims as "thy own reproach alone do fear" and Carnegie's preposterous but second-hand opinions.