Sentence examples for perhaps could not from inspiring English sources

These were positions that, perhaps, could not be reconciled.

But it has not — perhaps could not have — significantly narrowed the gulf between the shack-dwelling underclass and everyone else.

Enthralled, scholars perhaps could not bring themselves to look for earlier and more distant origins of modern behavior.

Hamilton thought about money in a way that Jefferson, who lived beyond his means, did not and perhaps could not.

While it does not, and perhaps could not, capture the sheer terror we Ugandans lived under, the brutality is not glossed over.

What Mueller may not have anticipated (and perhaps could not have avoided) is that Barr would improperly declare the president's guilt or innocence.

It didn't, and perhaps couldn't, make that political process pretty.

This fine writer could have given us the interior life of a complex heroine but didn't, perhaps couldn't.

But Jefferies is doing the one thing Lehman didn't — or perhaps couldn't: selling off the worrisome assets.

But what McIntyre doesn't say, and perhaps couldn't know, is that it was good theatre.

That driver perhaps couldn't have defined democracy, but he had risked his life to try to advance it.