Sentence examples for could not strictly from inspiring English sources

The judge found that American contracting officials abroad, like those with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, could not strictly be regarded as agents of the United States government within the False Claims Act.

You could not strictly hear a tuba by hearing its sound because a tuba is not an event of which a sound is a part.

His "act" was singular, not part of a practice that could ever be made public, and hence could not, strictly speaking, be understood, even as a "deviation" from normal ethical behavior.

This dataset excludes groups of closely related homologues that we could not strictly distinguish by MS data alone.

We acknowledge that the definitions for LD-SCLC and ED-SCLC vary somewhat in the different groups compared, and we could not strictly reallocate each patient because we were unable to access the individual patient databases.

Third, because this study was conducted as part of the clinical practice, we could not strictly prohibit the use of statins in the control group.

Depp might be top-billed as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates series, but he couldn't strictly be described as 'A-list' before the first instalment was released, and even in the sequels he is used sparingly; the promise of his next camp aside or foppish flounce helps us to survive the dogged attempts at acting by his co-stars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley.

Because the police were not involved, the roadside protocol could not be strictly applied.

As data was collected in different seasons, the before influx data from March could not be strictly compared to the post influx data collected in June and October.

For this reason, statistical evaluation of changes in oseltamivir brain uptake by poly I C treatment could not be strictly performed.

The genetic background of the stocks used in this study could not be strictly controlled due to the long period of this study.