Sentence examples for could not own enough from inspiring English sources

Most rural workers could not own enough land to support their families.

Aristocrats and others wealthy enough to commission lavish books of hours from the top artisans couldn't own enough of them.

They could not own a ship that was large enough to participate in foreign commerce, and they could not leave Italy without permission from the Senate.

He thought cowboys could not have enough money to purchase their own cattle they certainly were not being paid very much and concluded that any cowboy who owned a cow must have stolen it.

Essentially, Uber didn't think it could own enough of the Chinese market minus the enormous amount it would have spent competing with its new ally to do better than walking away with 20% of Didi.

"Vertigo," for example, describes a watchmaker's shop "in which a host of long-case clocks, wall-mounted regulators, kitchen and living room clocks, alarm clocks, pocket and wristwatches were all ticking at once, just as if one clock on its own could not destroy enough time".

Second, he argues that governments, even ones with their own currency, could not issue enough safe assets to satisfy investor demand.

Clegg insists he was forced to act after Cameron admitted last summer he could not deliver enough of his own backbenchers to vote for an elected second chamber.

David Cameron – Blairite in foreign affairs – could not mobilise enough of his own parliamentary party to win the vote for intervention in Syria.

Mr. Safir also said Los Angeles was forced on the road to recruit because it could not find enough applicants in its own region.

Grandmothers and TBAs advised women to squeeze milk from their breasts and give it to the baby because preterm newborns could not suckle enough milk on their own.