Sentence examples for could not altogether from inspiring English sources

The home government was generally benevolent in legislating for their welfare but could not altogether enforce its humane policies in distant America.

Although other Europeans resented this dominance of the trade, even the Portuguese discovery and exploitation of the Cape of Good Hope route could not altogether break it.

Even last year, the Food and Drug Administration decided that it could not altogether ban researchers from its advisory boards who took industry consulting fees.

Of course, she couldn't altogether join the dots so as to make out the crushing dramatic irony – the terror for which Kirov's killing (almost certainly ordered by his theatregoing companion) was the curtain-raiser had yet to be played out.

Even if Clegg remained as leader, the possibility could not be altogether ruled out.

Much of the fun of the piece came from their sportsmanship, and also from Mr. Glass's recognition that a concerto for timpani could not be altogether serious.

Saint Bonaventure, for example, had argued that even angels could not be altogether immaterial; they must be compounds of form and "spiritual matter".

No matter how far he strayed from baseball -- into art and psychology and Eastern philosophy -- he could not leave it altogether.

When Liutprand in 731 restricted the scope of the judicial duel, for he suspected that it was unjust, he explicitly recognized that it could not be abandoned altogether, as it was part of Lombard custom.

Mr Weston revealed that several rails and seats had been moved, but insisted they could not remove seats altogether as elderly people needed plenty of seating on the lower level.

He could not abolish slavery altogether, as it was a pillar of that text.