Sentence examples for could only be known from inspiring English sources

"Scotland," he concluded, "could only be known by someone who had the power to live simultaneously in the bodies of all the men, women and children in it".

It can be usefully contrasted with the claim of responsibility following the attacks in Paris, which included details that could only be known to someone intimately involved in the planning.

At least one of these propositions could only be known through inference, and thus the putative noninferential justification is destroyed.

So a criterion for membership of the favored class of statements that required only those statements accepted by the scientists of the time to be members of the class was not going to be successful without knowing which sentences were thus accepted, and this, claimed Ayer, could only be known by experience.

We were informed, however, that a court order or restraining order could only be issued against known persons.

The causal agents could only be inferred from their known asthmagenic potential.

Then, in July, after flight MH17 was believed to have been shot down in Ukraine en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Gonzales began offering her own counselling to the bereaved family members of those on board – an effort, she says, that could only be borne by those who knew exactly what they were going through.

These books gave a vivid picture of a world governed by counter-intuitive fundamental laws, that (as Galileo had famously explained in The Assayer) could only be understood by someone who knew the language in which the laws were written, the language of mathematics.

It severed both of Nakahara's legs, the kind of injury that Rogers knew could only be inflicted by the ocean's apex predator, "as big as your car, weighing almost as much … I do have vivid images of his injuries but because I was so close to his face, his eyes are the things that get me … just wishing I could make him alive again", he says.

The easy familiarity with which the dancers Arieli photographed interlocked could only be achieved by people who know their own bodies and each others' intimately.

At another sale in September 1815, at Staines market, "only three shillings and four pence were offered for the lot, no one choosing to contend with the bidder, for the fair object, whose merits could only be appreciated by those who knew them.