Sentence examples for we could apprehend from inspiring English sources

His argument was that one could not explain, say, 'triangularity' except by treating it as a particular, i.e., putting it in the subject position of a phrase, therefore assuming that we could apprehend it in abstraction from any particular, which is, according to him, impossible.

In Aleppo, the shabiha were out torturing and killing any rebels they could apprehend.

Modern scholars agree: a belligerent could apprehend a neutral ship carrying enemy goods, but must present the case for proper adjudication in port.

His ultimate subject was nothing less than the human longing to communicate — to make meaning that others could apprehend and expand.

Without an extradition treaty, the Libyans could apprehend the suspects themselves and hand them over to the United States outside a normal legal process - though some critics might paint such an arrangement as an extralegal rendition.

For John Locke, later in the seventeenth century, that meant a strong belief in a natural law that human beings could apprehend and which governed their actions even in the absence of a state.

But I could apprehend nothing of this nothingness – in my current state the Shard was notable only for being acuminate: a vast hypodermic needle lancing up into the cloudy tissue of the sky.

The following day, Charles Stuart took his life by jumping off the Tobin Bridge before police could apprehend him.

Among his first acts in office was to upend Obama-era removal priorities, vastly expanding the class of people who might be targeted by ICE and where its agents could apprehend them.

It is now apparent that unless we process this information and start putting it to use, we are likely to see people who are serial rapists continue their crimes when we could have apprehended them before they could strike again".

"Guantanamo [is] where we put terrorists, where we apprehend them," McCain told reporters on Capitol Hill.