Sentence examples for could not be read from inspiring English sources

The only problem with these ballots is that they could not be read by machine.

*An earlier version of this article incorrectly implied that much of the Archimedes Palimpsest could not be read using MSI.

I may well be one of those thousands of voters whose punch could not be read by the machine.

The books contained therein were on the Index, and could not be read without permission from a clerical authority.

As late as 1994, officially it still could not be read without the permission of MI6 and government lawyers.

He, too, thought of himself as living in exile, as a writer whose work could not be read around him.

The prime minister's suggestion that he could afford to return from Lebanon without a peace deal whereas Condeleezza Rice, America's secretary of state, could not was read as a humiliating rather than realistic assessment of how the world works.

Many passages couldn't be read.

By Emily Nussbaum Draper was an immediate hit with audiences: the man who could read symbols but couldn't be read himself.

"He said the arrows were too dark, and the guitars couldn't be read from the stage," Miller said.

Alienware insisted that it must be a defective DVD, even though it worked on a friend's computer, but a replacement disk also couldn't be read.