Sentence examples for maintained cannot from inspiring English sources

Musical meaning and communication, he maintained, cannot exist in the absence of the cultural context.

Meyer deliberately eschewed logical and philosophical problems of music and made "no attempt to decide whether music is a language or whether musical stimuli are signs or symbols". (He did not defend the inference that such concerns are irrelevant to meaning). Musical meaning and communication, he maintained, cannot exist in the absence of the cultural context.

Reason alone, Shaftesbury maintained, cannot motivate.

The mind, he maintained, cannot be so deeply ignorant of what it senses or of what it does (Essay I.vi §§3 5).

The General Election Legal and Accounting Compliance Fund that each campaign maintains cannot collect money from corporations or labor unions, while donations from individuals are limited to $2,000.

Yet this is an obscure, highly specialized world; group studies in a laboratory, most scientists maintain, cannot yet be applied to the behavior of an individual, especially an individual's commission of a violent crime.

Self-interest, he maintains, cannot explain why we approve what we do, and in particular, why we identify with those of benevolent character.

Many of the fine-scale variations are associated with sub-storms, which we maintain cannot be adequately characterized from the ground with existing networks.

The company has maintained it cannot hand over information it does not hold.

Here, we find that in stc1Δ cells, silencing mediated by tethered Clr4 can be maintained, but cannot be established.

The Metropolitan Police, meanwhile, maintains progress cannot be made until the Airwave system is fully functional.