Sentence examples for could not instruct from inspiring English sources

Mr. Yoo said he believed that Congress could not instruct the president on "tactics," including interrogations.

Ben-Gurion could not instruct the I.D.F. to get rid of the Arabs.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin May 12, 2017 Trump would rather raise the possibility that he had an improper conversation with James Comey than leave the impression that he couldn't instruct others to do anything he desired.

Trump would rather raise the possibility that he'd had an improper, if not actually illegal, conversation with Comey than leave anyone with the impression that he couldn't instruct the people who worked for him to do anything he desired.

The poor should not instruct the rich.

There was no task-related incentive for this behavior; participants could willingly pause their walking within an intersection and they were not instructed to move between destinations quickly.

Notably, the GPs were not instructed to systematically screen patients for possible depression or depressive symptoms: which could have led to a lower risk estimate.

The participants were instructed not to move if possible; they were not instructed to avoid eyeblinks.

Participants were not instructed on their diet.

You might also think that little or nothing had changed, that the landscape of imposed, pseudo-managerial and bureaucratic jargon had not altered, did not need to alter and probably could not do so if instructed.

Parents of children who could not yet read were instructed to help the child with reading, but to refrain from influencing his/her responses.