Sentence examples for could not erect from inspiring English sources
It was a commentary, he said, on the fact that the police had decreed that the protesters sleeping in Zuccotti Park could not erect tents.
"I was woken up at 5.30 one morning to be told that the BA-sponsored London Eye had a technical problem – they couldn't erect it," Branson later said.
Tito couldn't erect figures or busts in honour of generals because he didn't want to be seen to be favouring any ethnic group, for example a Bosnian general or a Serb war hero, so instead they made these things that didn't refer to people".
As there'd been storms they couldn't erect a stage on the platform by the sea, like normal, a shame.
But residents may not erect a hoop, not even a roll-away one, near the kerb.
In this form Bhringi could not stand erect, so the compassionate ones who witnessed the scene blessed the sage with a third leg for support.
These measurements were not recorded if a person could not stand erect or was physically disabled.
This belief, they explain, provided camouflage for all manner of chicanery, putting people into houses they could not afford and erecting corrupt investment empires on the notion that unrealistic mortgage payments would somehow continue to flow.
Android doesn't erect boundaries between apps like iOS.
A major contributor to the massive death toll from the Haiti earthquake was shoddily constructed buildings that couldn't have been erected under the oversight of professional and honest inspectors.
