Sentence examples for we cannot legislate from inspiring English sources

"We cannot legislate conscience.

Regrettably, we cannot legislate morality.

Sad to say we cannot legislate for below the line posters.

"We cannot legislate the elimination of injuries from the games without eliminating the games themselves," said Representative Lamar S. Smith, Republican of Texas.

However, for some writers, Butler's account of the body fails to accommodate its weightiness, the limits which it might set to modes of conceptualisation, even though we cannot legislate in advance what those limits might be.

We cannot legislate our way out of this social issue.

We know that you cannot legislate acceptance and that human rights are achieved through a receptive culture.

A legislative body cannot legislate wisely or effectively in the absence of information respecting the conditions which the legislation is intended to affect or change; and where the legislative body does not itself possess the requisite information-which not infrequently is true-recourse must be had to others who do possess it.

So the idea of blood sacrifice is not removed, in my mind, from a modern state that cannot legislate for the proper medical treatment of pregnant women, because suffering is something we are supposed to do well.

We recognize that it is not possible or desirable to regulate everything – as the expression goes: you cannot legislate good behavior – and the guidance and principles developed by the Basel Committee are just as important as getting good regulations in place.

Archaeology cannot legislate belief.