Sentence examples for pin anything on from inspiring English sources

Mr. Titus is the right man for this job: you can't pin anything on him.

Pell claims the church was "unable to pin anything on the man".

He remembers a moment, or what he calls an almost-moment, of inspiration with Ralph Nader, but nothing else to pin anything on.

EARLY in his discussions with the F.B.I., Mr. Schlobohm recalls, an agent informed him "that Trevor Cook had been on their radar screen before," but the bureau had been unable to pin anything on him.

More often, the ideology behind the act must be guessed from its location (gentrifying neighbourhoods like Kreuzberg or Friedrichshain) or the sort of car targeted (the more expensive the model, the more political its immolation).Investigators cannot pin anything on far-left factions like the so-called "Autonomen", who seem no more numerous this year than in previous ones.

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But as the writer Tony Hiss concluded in The Times in 1967: "No one has ever pinned anything on Ray Jones, which is a tribute either to his integrity or to his cunning".

Michael Wahid Hanna, a fellow at the Century Foundation, said that if only for this reason, it's clear that Kerry's comments didn't reflect administration policy "because it's been administration policy to be ambiguous and not pin anything down" on the Egypt turmoil.

However, Brix also told Hartmann that if he could have pinned anything on him he would and suggested that Lund would be sensible to drop allegations she was being watched and someone was protecting City Hall.

"If he's in there long enough," Coogan said, "they can pin anything they want on him".

You also can't pin anything from Facebook, which on balance I think is a good thing, even though you can of course screengrab and add the image that way.