Sentence examples for we cannot suppose from inspiring English sources

We cannot suppose that this change was without a distinct purpose on the part of Congress.

Under respondents' view the lump sum to be paid would be about $30.00 a project; and we cannot suppose that Congress meant thus to reduce the damages recoverable for respondents' fraud and thereby allow them to spread the burden progressively thinner over projects each of which individually increased their profit.

We cannot suppose that when Congress enacted the statute or amended it, it did not have in mind that a wide field for such frauds upon the government was in private and public vessels of the United States on the high seas and in foreign ports and beyond the land jurisdiction of the United States, and therefore intended to include them in the section.

We cannot suppose that congress intended to compel those courts, by such means, to draw to themselves, in the first instance, the control of all criminal prosecutions commenced in state courts exercising authority within the same territorial limits, where the accused claims that he is held in custody in violation of the constitution of the United States.

And we cannot suppose a vendee, can acquire property in any thing, which at the time of purchase, he knew the vendor had no right to convey.

Under conditions of reasonable pluralism, we cannot suppose that the reasoning of one member of the public is a proxy for everyone else's reasoning.

One cannot suppose, any more than one can with out-of-body experiences, that such events are pure fancy; similar features are emphasized in every account.

But, however smoothly Mr Menem's visit may go, Britain cannot suppose that the Falklands irritant to good relations can then be pigeonholed.

I cannot suppose that the great men who framed the Constitution ever thought the time would come when a subordinate Federal court, having no power to compel a state, in its corporate capacity, to appear before it as a litigant, would yet assume to deprive a state of the right to be represented in its own courts by its regular law officer.

I can suppose that there aren't any bodies, and I cannot suppose that I do not think, the supposition itself being a thought.

Till he has some ideas of his own, he cannot suppose them to correspond with the conceptions of another man; nor can he use any signs for them" (Locke [1690 ] 1975 3.2.2).