Sentence examples for dollars could not from inspiring English sources

"The CIA have managed, with one tweet, to do what millions of PR dollars could not," suggested another Twitter user.

But even high-profile support of the brand, priced in the hundreds and thousands of dollars, could not save it from the reality of the Great Recession.

Second, it had no money of its own to hand out — although the separate Haiti Reconstruction Fund, a pot containing 14 percent of the reconstruction dollars, could not make grants without its approval.

One day in 2011, the Russian side of a mirror trade, for about ten million dollars, could not be completed: the counterparty, Westminster Capital Management, had just lost its trading license.

Congress has banned federal financing of experimentation on human embryos; last August the Clinton administration carved out an exception to that ban, ruling that taxpayer dollars could not finance work on embryos, but could pay for studies of stem cells that privately financed researchers had obtained from embryos.

They knew something even a billion dollars couldn't persuade them to ignore: that you couldn't pick a worse place to transform into an industrial landscape.

By the time Ford gave his speech, that war was lost, and seven hundred and twenty-two million dollars couldn't have done what billions of dollars and half a million American troops hadn't — though the end game, as Kennedy's film compellingly shows, was a last unnecessary fiasco.

The perception that our space program disappeared with the mothballing of her space shuttles, or thoughts that what we do is a waste of taxpayer dollars, couldn't be further from the truth.

The wealthiest country on the planet, the most militarily powerful in the history of... well, anybody, anywhere, anytime (or so we were repeatedly told)... couldn't win a war, not even with the investment of trillions of taxpayer dollars, couldn't do anything but spread chaos by force of arms.

Confidence in the dollar could not be dented.

As regards Bretton Woods, the dollar could not be the underpinning of the world's trade if the Americans did not follow the rules.