Sentence examples for plainly could not from inspiring English sources

— pushed financiers to make billions of dollars in profits selling calamitous mortgages to people who plainly could not afford them.

Mortgage-holders would be divided into groups: those who could afford to pay their resetting mortgages (who would not get help); those who were in homes they plainly could not afford (who would not get help either); and in the middle those deserving borrowers who could service their loan, but not at the resetting rates.

For the first time in the United Nations' 60-year history, the United States is being represented at the world body by a person who plainly could not win Senate approval under the advise-and-consent procedure of our Constitution ("Ambassador Bolton," editorial, Aug. 2).

One plainly could not have (for instance) 'bodily' desires such as hunger and thirst without being ensouled, but that does not mean that it must be the soul itself that forms or sustains such desires.

Working from one of the notoriously trashy Mike Hammer novels by Mickey Spillane, Aldrich plainly couldn't stand his hero, a thuggish private eye played with a permanent leer by the Broadway transplant Ralph Meeker.

being up-to-date meant giving plenty of time and energy to the band, constantly, for those thirty years; a constancy we plainly couldn't keep up with in the end.

Plainly, the idyll could not last.

In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed".

Plainly the generals could not tolerate the prospect of a Brother-dominated parliament ruling in tandem with a Brotherly president.Egypt has been in a "constitutional twilight zone" since Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president more than a year ago, says Elijah Zarwan of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank in London.

And she was surprisingly candid when she plainly stated that she could not see where what is being said to women, there and elsewhere, is in the Quran.

Even a palazzo like Mar-a-Lago has a finite number of guest rooms, and surely these were going to accommodate the happy couple's innermost social circle, and surely my wife's agreeable but plainly journalistic interactions with Melania could not have propelled her, plus me, into the sanctum sanctorum.