Sentence examples for could not grant from inspiring English sources

He asked the British officials there for asylum, which they said they could not grant.

A federal court could not grant the writ just because the state court decision was wrong, though reasonable, she said.

The citizens of New Orleans graciously grant to the storm the courtesy that the storm, in its rage, could not grant to them.

Only days before the experiment was set to begin, the Institut de France indicated that it could not grant Mocella's request.

Last week, a medical accreditation board said that it could not grant the new school at the University of California, Riverside, accreditation without sufficient support from the state.

Magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwausiwa told a packed court that he could not grant bail, saying it was for the couple's own protection.

Hansen was also told that he couldn't grant a routine interview to National Public Radio.

The captain explained that he couldn't grant a request like that.

Portfolio theory wasn't economics, Mr. Friedman said, and the university couldn't grant a degree in economics based on it.

Starmer made it clear that he had to enforce the law as it was; he couldn't grant immunities.

"They failed to get adequate police protection, which is why the County Department of Health couldn't grant the mass gathering permit," he said.