Sentence examples for it cannot be known whether from inspiring English sources

It cannot be known whether other questionable civilian killings failed to come to light.

But it stayed and bumped the boat for hours, and by doing so steered it; and it cannot be known whether it was deliberate, benevolent, that it did not steer the kayak farther out to sea.

Hunters are depicted in prehistoric art, but it cannot be known whether the hunters pursued their prey in a mood of grim necessity or with the joyful abandon of sportsmen.

However, with only the results in Column 2 it cannot be known whether the results in Column 2 were obtained because of the downward wage rigidity during recessions.

Furthermore, the procedure requires us to know whether or not B has occurred, prior to manipulating A and thus, it cannot get under way in cases in which it cannot be known whether or not B has occurred until after the occurrence or nonoccurrence of A (Dummett, 1964).

Without such recordings, it cannot be known whether the police coerced the child into confessing or whether the statement is the child's account or an agreed-to version of a pre-conceived story told by the child's interrogators.

So it cannot be known for certain whether Ekeus -- who once described his encounters with the Iraqi government as voyages into "The Arabian Nights" -- bailed out only because the Swedish government wanted to send him to Washington as its ambassador.

Of course, it cannot be known with certainty whether non-response has introduced bias, but available methods were used to assess the likelihood of bias.

While it cannot be known for certain whether methane production occurred by direct electron transfer or by hydrogen gas production in these previous studies, from a process cost perspective knowing the exact route is less important than minimizing costs.

The best prospective estimate of therapy efficacy that we can therefore give patients who must chose between therapeutic options is based on intention-to-treat analysis, given that it cannot be known a priori whether a therapy will be tolerated and/ or finished.

Whether Ubani would have passed its requirements cannot be known.