Sentence examples for could not perhaps from inspiring English sources

MacLeish could not, perhaps, have imagined the sight of a truly whole Earth.

That such a rule would engender practical difficulties in an era of expanding federal criminal jurisdiction could not, perhaps, have been foreseen.

In a threatening time, in a world clearly headed for war, West's vision could not, perhaps, be endured; Steinbeck's, in contrast, harmonized with a country preparing itself for massive collective sacrifice and effort.

Suppose the undertaking given up had been one rendered unavailing by the Statute of Limitations, no action would have lain upon it, but the attempt to enforce it could not perhaps have been resisted without injury to the defendant's mercantile character; the relinquishment of it, therefore, would have been [113 Eng. Rep. 121] good consideration for a promise.

He instantly wrote back: "je n'en aurais peut-être pas voulu recevoir d'autre de vous, malgré ce que vous me dites de triste sur vous et votre santé" ("I could not perhaps wish to have received any other [news] from you, in spite of the sad things you tell me about yourself and your health").

I should like to ask you, Commissioner, and the rest of the Commission, to think about whether the mandate of this group of advisers could not perhaps be changed in such a way as to ensure that the group identifies and sets out for the rest of us the main ethical arguments.

In his second year there, he went as far as to ask the downtown boss whether he couldn't perhaps be given a less taxing job.

The counterargument that he couldn't perhaps be bothered to make is that Amis is writing, and doing so effectively, about a particular sort of masculinity.

Who could live with it: the Republic of Ireland and, perhaps, the U.K. Who couldn't: perhaps the U.K. That's the key question now—and only another referendum can really answer it.

Could this not perhaps drive a wedge even further between demographics and generations that already could benefit from a little more cohesiveness?

Some people — like Hillebrandt – would help him but could not; others perhaps could have but didn't.