Sentence examples for could not hand from inspiring English sources

The ecclesiastical princes, vowed to celibacy and elected by their cathedral chapters, could not hand on their lands to descendants.

But I could not hand out a subsidy sufficient to keep the places going, and the arrondissement could not, either.

"Deutsche could not hand over client information without a subpoena," a source close to the bank told the Financial Times.

The company said it could not hand the evidence directly to police without ensuring that journalistic sources, and legally privileged documents, were protected.

But the American airmen said they could not hand out medicine without the permission of the Japanese government, which they did not have.

He let it be known that UNITA could not demobilise its remaining troops because of the UN's inefficiency and that it could not hand over territory to the government because the roads had been made impassable by heavy rains.

The backwards boy who couldn't hand over so much as a howdy became a confident front man and a bandleader's bandleader.

When tech soared, holders cashed in their call options but the funds couldn't hand over underlying stock, because that would trigger taxes for the funds' investors.

But despite the extensive testing, EA's new servers couldn't hand the opening rush and faltered the first few days.

We knew we couldn't hand down that legacy to our children".

The DNC staff was nervous and came over to make sure I knew I couldn't hand anything to the president, asked us to remove our CODEPINK buttons, and I couldn't take photos because there was an official photographer.