Sentence examples for could not be exercised from inspiring English sources

The fact that some of Mr. Cheney's stock options could not be exercised until after inauguration was first reported by The New York Times last month.

While the decision upheld Secretary of State Katherine Harris's discretion to enforce a deadline of 5 p.m. today for all Florida counties to have their ballot tallies turned in, it also said the discretion could not be exercised arbitrarily.

The likely consequence is that contingency plans may have been insufficient and could not be exercised enough.

They subsequently passed a law that in essence taxed options as current income, even though they could not be exercised for several years and might expire worthless.

It may mean that you and the school were not 'matches'; i.e. that your interests could not be exercised to their full potential at that school.

According to his understanding, he said, Rhodesia had been told just before Federal dissolution that it would retain the Federation's former powers regarding external affairs, but that this entrustment was subject to British discretion, and could not be exercised without extensive prior consultation and conformity to Britain's line.

It's naïve to believe that the Zero could be used for anything but war, and it's equally naïve to pretend that the creation of a new warplane could not be the exercise of a spiritual passion.

Commonly, definitions of the term "exercise" were missing from papers, thus it could not be determined if "exercise" referred to general aerobic exercise, specific quadriceps strengthening exercises, range of movement exercises or all three [Additional File 2].

Participants in whom intracortical inhibition could not be induced pre-exercise using standard protocols were excluded from the corresponding analysis.

D-dimer could not be measured after exercise in several samples (12/20) due to lipemia, and this parameter was omitted from further analysis.

In addition, frequency and type of exercise on bone density could not be evaluated, because few of the subjects exercised regularly.