Sentence examples for could not procure from inspiring English sources

The night before, his backup, Devin Williams, failed a concussion test, and the Otters could not procure another goalie in time.

The Madonnina, a golden statue of the Virgin Mary which stands atop Milan's Duomo cathedral, might be one of few other assets in the city which even PSG's newfound wealth could not procure.

In April, when the Transportation Department concluded that it could not procure and install enough of the big machines, it declared that trace detectors also qualified as explosive detection systems.

His mother, who played basketball and put the first ball in his hands and who set an example for him by going to college as an adult, could not procure visas for her and her 7-year-old daughter to join him in New York.

This evaluation result does not have sufficient reliability for generality because we could not procure a sufficient number of participants for the practice sessions.

Our evaluation results do not have sufficient reliability because we could not procure a sufficient number of subjects in the classroom practice.

The slight on Djokovic was a delight to fans who couldn't procure Ashe tickets but suddenly had the chance to behold Djokovic, who has lost only two matches all year.

But as guests began to clamber onto the boat from a dinghy around 11 a.m., it soon became very clear that one thing Mr. Brodsky couldn't procure was wind.

Peasants and merchants who couldn't procure a loan from a yangban (a member of the Korean ruling class in the Joseon dynasty) were able to economically and socially empower one another only because they chose to unite.

What they would find, the book stated, were facts about New York hospitality "which could not be procured elsewhere".

Because of her father's dedication to his work — "Thanks to DNA profiling," Piers Ibbotson said on Tuesday, "it's been established that he did indeed 'draw on his own resources' " when outside sperm donors could not be procured — Ms. Ibbotson is also survived by an additional raft of half-siblings whose precise number is unknown.