Sentence examples for it could not be maintained from inspiring English sources

Since the hours law failed to qualify as a health measure, it could not be maintained as a valid exercise of the police power, according to Peckham.

If this were a suit to enjoin a federal law, it could not be maintained by reason of Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447, 486, 43 S.Ct.

As such, it could not be maintained that the applicant, in registering her business under the name "JC Penney Collections", had any ulterior motive of "riding on the reputation" of the American corporation.

Second, though the training given to the observers was quite intensive before cohort initiation and repeated every two weeks during the first three months of the cohort study (at the end of which we held study A), it could not be maintained thereafter.

By the end of the year, it couldn't be maintained anymore.

It was held that the suit could not be maintained; and in the course of a very careful and discriminating opinion by Judge METCALF, it was shown that the cases which had been supposed to favor the action belonged to exceptional classes, none of which embraced the pure and simple case of an attempt by one person to enforce a promise made to another, from whom the consideration wholly proceeded.

The constitutional authority confided to Congress could not be maintained if it were deemed to depend upon the mere modal arrangements of those seeking to escape its exercise.

There it was insisted by the defendant that the action could not be maintained in the courts of Ohio.

The strictness of this argument (functional differentiation) could not be maintained in some cases, since it would have left out or pushed aside established nomenclature in mainstream vulnerability research.

However, by necessity my anonymity could not be maintained in its entirety.

It was also necessary to ensure anonymity in response data, which could not be maintained for rural areas do to the small numbers.