Sentence examples for could have instructed from inspiring English sources

As mayor, he could have instructed the city's lawyers to appeal the ruling.

The Americans could have instructed Oswalt to make some pickoff tosses to kill time for Grabow, but they did not.

"L'Humanite" could have instructed its women readers not only to ignore the fad but to defy it openly by hiking their skirts up an inch or two.

The hypothesis would explain Spirit's amnesia, but it is not at all clear how the rover could have instructed itself to go into the cripple mode.

There's a line of Emerson's from 'Self-Reliance,' " Hyde told me one day in his office, "where he says of Benjamin Franklin: 'Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin?

B16 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 Experts Battle Unusual Virus As the computer virus named Sobig. Fswamped the Internet, security experts tried to stop an electronic time bomb: Sobig carried an attachment that could have instructed infected computers to communicate with 20 host PC's that were planted with a mystery program.

True, as Alan Posner points out, Burke was of another time, and of a society more hierarchical than ours, but his strong sense of the duty of his class could certainly have instructed those Republicans pandering to the Tea Party: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion".

Someone must have instructed me to perform this task.

"I have instructed the foreign minister to handle it seriously.

LSD, treated with respect, could have powerfully instructed men and women in the glories of the spiritual dimension of life.

They also accompanied the participants to the technicians after having instructed the participant not to tell anything that could reveal their headache trait or state.