Sentence examples for could not assert from inspiring English sources

It could not assert that the tax-free dividends went to one group of shareholders, while the tax-exempt ones went to another group, like preferred shareholders or owners of one class of common stock.

Duke Robert Curthose, the eldest of the three brothers, who by Norman custom had succeeded to his father's inheritance in Normandy, was returning from the First Crusade and could not assert his own claim to the English throne until the following year.

They range from the mundane — the police's offers and Mr. Strauss-Kahn's requests for food and water and to use a bathroom — to the sometimes coarse realities of the criminal justice system, like his complaints that his handcuffs were too tight and his eventual statement that he would not (in fact, could not) assert diplomatic immunity.

Until the fall of France in June 1940, Beneš could not assert himself, but in July the British government under Winston Churchill granted Beneš's Czechoslovak National Committee the status of a provisional government in exile; it was to receive regular British subsidies until the end of the war.

In that case, the court held that a bankruptcy trustee could not assert a claim on behalf of investors who bought the bankrupt company's debentures because the company itself would not have had any claim for damages from misconduct involving the securities.

In the context of criticizing Peirce's writings on evolution and cosmology (collected by Cohen in Chance, Love, and Logic) Holmes said, "That we could not assert necessity of the order of the universe I learned to believe from Chauncey Wright long ago" (Cohen 1948, 34-35).

It was so quickly shared around the globe that he couldn't assert his copyright, or tell who might be making money from it.

She also could not quite assert herself against the ripieno, which, with eight violins in each section, was perhaps too large to begin with.

The judge set aside one charge prior to verdict because the complainant could not definitively assert that the crime had taken place.

But in an interview this week, senior officials of the agency said that in light of the April accident, they could not confidently assert that the long-identified shortcomings with the blowout preventers had been resolved adequately.

As long as Warwick remained as powerful and influential as he was, Edward could not fully assert his royal authority, and eventual confrontation became inevitable.