Sentence examples for could not have accepted from inspiring English sources

Under Senate gift restrictions, Mrs. Clinton could not have accepted such expensive gifts once she was sworn in unless she had a waiver from the Senate Ethics Committee.

If they were mere federal judges they could not have accepted the invitation, because Canon 4(C) of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges prohibits personal participation in fundraising activities.

However, his Augustinian argument serves to show that Descartes himself could not have accepted this doctrine.

Isaac Meyer Wise, one of the greatest leaders of Reform Judaism in America, was a Spinozist, and he could not have accepted the pledge in its current form.

Without endorsing Mendelssohn, whose metaphysics he could not have accepted, he none the less showed that his sympathy lay on his side.

Finally, Maudemarie Clark has argued that Nietzsche could not have accepted the very strongest form of the doctrine of the will to power — namely, that all force, animate and inanimate, is will to power — given the putative argument he gives for it.

(And to his credit, he then recused). But if he didn't have such guidelines or they were concealed from the public, the Senate couldn't have accepted such a promise.

The splendidly contrarian author of Lanark told the Scotsman: "I couldn't have accepted it and have people say, 'Success has corrupted you', or 'You're becoming mellow in your old age'.

I know she couldn't have accepted it and immediately flown across the country to babysit her niece, who's not even sick, in the hospital.

"Young people wouldn't have accepted that we could guess he wanted to conspire".

Mr. Lazio demurred then, and yesterday explained he could not possibly have accepted such a challenge when Mrs. Clinton and her supporters had already raised millions of dollars in soft money.