Sentence examples for it cannot refer from inspiring English sources

This may have resulted simply from haste; obviously, "it" cannot refer to "posts and pictures".

E.g., if Sammy is seven years old, then the sentence 'Sammy believes that snow is powdered sugar' could be true; but if this sentence is true, then (by our criterion of ontological commitment) its 'that'-clause refers to a real object; but then it cannot refer to a fact, because (obviously) there is no such thing as the fact that snow is powdered sugar.

Hence, if 'something' refers to a thing at time t, it cannot refer to a non-thing at different time.

The word used here for power is dunamis, but as the unmoved mover is nothing but actuality it cannot refer to an intrinsic infinite potentiality of the mover.

It was assumed that a possibility refers to an actualization in the one and only world history and that it cannot refer to the present moment because of the necessity of the present understood in the Aristotelian sense formulated in (2) and (3) above.

The Treasury Department opened its doors to economic bloggers this month, and the meeting was productive in at least one respect: as John Jansen of the blog Across the Curve concluded, "After meeting them, I feel I cannot refer to them as Timothy Geithner and his minions" anymore.

Nevertheless, since essence can be thought of independently from its being, and being is not part of its content, we cannot refer here to a distinction based on reason alone.

Like descriptivist accounts, Evans' hybrid theory accounts for cognitive significance (of the sort evidenced by sentences like (2) through (5)) as well as reference; like causal accounts, it preserves the intuition that one cannot refer to something with which one has no causal connection whatsoever.

Besides, we can define a negative constraint based on social relationship, i.e., two references that co-occur in the same hyper-edge cannot refer to the same individual.

So unlike other online applicants, however, WikiLeaks cannot refer to a spike in Internet traffic in its pitch for itself.

House rules and precedents provide substantial guidance on how a House member can and cannot refer to the president while speaking on the floor, and the guidelines state that it has been found impermissible to call the president a liar.