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He could not escape the guilt that he felt in the inner recesses of his soul.
He could not tell if what he was seeing was real or if it was a hallucination.
People could not understand the singularity of his imagination.
It could not be expected that even for a brief period our Air Force could make up for our lack of naval supremacy.
After she made her point, he could not counter with anything.
Funds could only be accepted on behalf of the friars for determined, imminent, real necessities that could not be provided for from begging.
The 1668 edition of his works was printed in Amsterdam because he could not obtain the censor's licence for its publication in England.
I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar.
Johnson could not bring himself to regard the poem as earning him any merit as a poet.
Cogni could not read or write, and she left her husband to move into Byron's Venice house.
After several months of promises, Shelley announced that he either could not or would not pay off all of Godwin's debts.
Reiman and Harold Bloom, the modern idea of Shelley could not be more different.
In Athens, for instance, women could not vote or hold office and were legally and socially dependent on a male relative.
They had no significant connections and he could not afford the fees for them to attend an established school for young ladies.
His mother wanted him to have a public school education, but his family could not afford the fees, and he needed to earn a scholarship.
She could not recall his having schoolfriends to stay and exchange visits as her brother Prosper often did in holidays.
One of his former pupils recalled being beaten so hard he could not sit down for a week.
Marlborough himself could not be displaced, but his relations were dismissed from their posts in turn.
Lang sees Handel as someone who could not accept class distinctions that required him to regard himself as a social inferior.
If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. It could not be else. I have drunk medicines.
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Queen could not book Wembley for a third night, but they did play at Knebworth Park.
That cruisers talked to cruisers across vast distances like synapses discharging in a megamind could not be proven mathematically.
Ultimately, loans were made to many borrowers who simply could not afford to make their payments.
John Barry could not work in the United Kingdom due to tax problems and suggested Marvin Hamlisch to score the film.
He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.
There were no rounds and boxers fought until one of them acknowledged defeat or could not continue.
Under these rules, if a man went down and could not continue after a count of 30 seconds, the fight was over.
When it became clear that Scotland could not qualify, Andy Roxburgh resigned from his position as team manager.
As the crowds continued to stay away, it became clear that Bailey could not stem the decline.
He made bogey however after finding the right rough with his tee shot and could not get up and down from the back of the green.
Mickelson, needing a birdie at the last to tie Rose and force a playoff, blocked his drive and could not reach the green in two.
Kotelnik rallied in the closing rounds but could not land a decisive punch on Khan, Kotelnik throwing everything he had in the final two stanzas.
Maidana landed a series of follow up uppercuts and rights but could not drop Khan.
Before the season started, Mansell could not fit into the narrow car and was deputised by Mark Blundell for the opening two rounds.
On the ninth lap of the race Hamilton could not select a gear and ending up coasting for 40 seconds.
Soichiro Honda, being a race driver himself, could not stay out of international motorsport.
He was hesitant and indecisive, nearly fell out with his engraver, and when the folios were published, could not interest enough subscribers.
This stimulated sales and suited the needs of small manufacturers in the Midland city, who could not afford to trade on credit.
Ireland won the first game, the second game could not be finished due to rain and the last match was completely washed out.
This meant that the British government could legislate for Home Rule but could not be sure of making it a reality on the ground.
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The church certainly required literacy in Latin, and could not function without copyists to produce liturgical documents.
Without lasting peace, Somerset's regime could not stand the expense of the war.
Countrymen were dependent on their local priests for the reading of scripture because they could not read the text for themselves.
Protestants rejected this doctrine, believing that good works alone could not allow one to enter heaven.
One was the wish to make sure the settlement could not be destroyed by rebellion as the first Munster Plantation had been in the Nine Years War.
However, he lost his power at the court of Yuan after death of Wuzong, he could not reign as Kings of Goryeo and Shen any longer.
They could not be the administrator or executor of a person's estate and if they were owed money they had no legal redress.
The Spanish colonial leaders, in turn, could not completely eliminate British influences along the Mosquito Coast.
Loyalists often came from the same communities as Patriots and as a result, such methods could not be employed for fear of alienating them.
The debt crisis became a major factor of the French Revolution as the government could not raise taxes without public approval.
He argues that the African economic model of the period was very different from the European, and could not sustain such population losses.
I could not be in your daughter's company, and have the grace of her gentle ministerings.
With land one held, one could not formally exchange the land, consolidate fields, or entirely exclude others.
As Zulu troops could not marry until they had washed their spears in blood, they were eager for combat.
The Central Powers knew that they could not win a protracted war, but they held high hopes for success based on a final quick offensive.
However, the collapsing Ottoman economy could not sustain the fleet's strength for too long.
Many were concerned about how much longer the war would drag on or suspected that Germany could not win a war fought on two fronts.
Soon German aircraft production could not keep pace with losses, and without air cover, the Allied bombing campaign became even more devastating.
However, it could not destroy the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk despite intense bombing.
The loss of two brigades of 17th Indian Division meant that Rangoon could not be defended.
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The Chinese troops could not retreat because the routes to Yunnan were controlled by the Thais and Japanese.
The pinnaces could not tie up alongside Campania at night, and had to be moored several miles away.
Torlesse was supposed to accompany him, but in view of the degree of radioactive contamination, he felt he could not leave his command.
It believed that it could not enlarge the country's small army of 12,500 men without negative consequences.
However, unlike the Sunningdale Agreement of 1974, they found they could not bring the agreement down by a general strike.
This Protocol contains three different rights which the signatories could not agree to place in the Convention itself.
Because the Turks and Caicos is a British Overseas Territory and not an independent country, they, at one time, could not confer citizenship.
It provided that the Lords could not delay for more than one month any bill certified by the Speaker of the Commons as a money bill.
However, the Austrian and Russian forces were also heavily depleted and could not launch a major offensive.
Although she had many young men still to draft, she could not conscript them and did not dare to resort to the impressment Frederick had done.
Britain could not tolerate Russian dominance of Ottoman affairs, as that would challenge its domination of the eastern Mediterranean.
Support could not be sent by air as the single remaining Chinook was already heavily oversubscribed.
The officers on board were told that they could not sail to Bluff Cove that day.
The development of the market economy involved coercion, exploitation and violence that Adam Smith's moral philosophy could not countenance.
Airlines have often assigned the 787 to routes previously flown by larger aircraft that could not return a profit.
That could not only be achieved unless policies were harmonised and transferred to the European Community level.
He allowed employees a week's holiday a year, but on condition that they could not leave the village.
Anyone who was late not only could not work that day but lost an extra day's pay.
In the early 20th century some locomotives became so large that the fireman could not shovel coal fast enough.
Under normal operation the water temperature could not exceed that of boiling water and kept the lead below its melting point.
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It could not be made for 110 V or 220 V so several lamps were wired in series for use on standard voltage circuits.
Although the trio briefly experimented with the concept, they could not develop a workable prototype.
Outside of sermons during the celebration of the divine liturgy it could not instruct or evangelise to the faithful or its youth.
In the meantime, I had been receiving worrying reports about Nancy by mulga wire but could not find out for sure what was wrong.
Anders argued that he could not advise the soldiers to return to Poland unless the Polish Government promised elections this spring.
Swift could not bear to be present at the end, but on the night of her death he began to write his The Death of Mrs Johnson.
What his brief landfalls could not provide was a thorough understanding of exotic cultures.
Later in 1874 Gilbert offered the libretto to Richard D'Oyly Carte, but Carte could not use the piece at that time.
People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.
He could not afford to have a daily newspaper delivered to Redhill, suggesting that his financial circumstances there were still tight.
Berkeley thus concluded that forces lay beyond any kind of empirical observation and could not be a part of proper science.
Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment.
I saw that he was right, and I saw that I could not hope ever again to do fundamental work in philosophy.
The war could not be blamed for the downturn in Welsh fortunes as all the home nations lost their young talent in equal numbers.
Suddenly the call of the professional league was a very strong draw to men who could not claim money for playing union.
The difficult navigation of the harbour gave security to the locals, as larger attacking ships could not enter.
This is what the natural philosophers Thales, Anaximenes and Aristotle believed, which could not be different from the folklore belief.
The Mint could not find a suitable metal which was sufficiently different in colour to the existing coins and which would not tarnish.
Even if she could have faced life without him, she could not go through it all again, the bankruptcy and shame and necessitude.
As the new Emperor could not exert his constitutional powers until he became of age, a regency was set up by the National Assembly.
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However, the team could not sustain its status and is now back in the fourth division.
He justified this action to the Senate by saying that in the din of battle he could not distinguish Roman from ally.
He was succeeded by Robert Bruce and John Comyn as joint Guardians, but they could not see past their personal differences.
Each congregation was free to choose or reject its own pastor, but once he was chosen he could not be fired.
The colonists rejected a moralistic lifestyle and complained that their colony could not compete economically with the Carolina rice plantations.
However, the British could not conduct an aggressive pursuit, due to the presence of American ships on Lake Champlain.
Land struggles occurred after the First and Second World Wars as returning servicemen could not get crofts.
I for one could not belong to a Government which did not on every occasion seek to enlarge its resources by a wise economy.
Even these enlarged premises could not contain the expanding University, which quickly spread across much of Gilmorehill.
Sir John French suggested landing at Antwerp, which was vetoed by Winston Churchill as the Royal Navy could not guarantee safe passage.
To reduce the drag of the antennas the operating wavelength could not be much greater than one m, difficult for the day's electronics.
When he got there, he found his colleagues tucking into roast chicken and other tastier things than njahi and could not help pitying himself.
The Hanoverian association terminated in 1837 with the accession of Queen Victoria who, being a female, could not accede to Hanover.
Property of a household could not be disposed of without the consent of both spouses.
As unfree, slaves could not be legal agents either for themselves or others.
The status of children was based on their parents, and they could not act independently.
However, it does mention that certain types of person could not be maintained because of the difficulty in doing so.
Should the murderer be unable to pay by himself, his family was normally responsible for paying any amount the murderer could not pay.
Any extra land that daughters could not inherit because of female inheritance limits also went to the wider kin.
The head of a kin group was entitled to extra property since he was liable for debts a kinsman could not pay.
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The text however present a schema that could not have been used in actuality.
By contrast, a person who had been acquitted of a lesser offence could not be tried for an aggravated form even if new evidence became available.
After the Mad War, the duke Francis II could not marry off his daughter Anne without the King of France's consent.
It is also the third best selling soft drink in the UK in July 2013 the merger collapsed when terms could not be agreed.
After the Reformation, the castle passed to several owners, who could not maintain its structure and the building deteriorated into a ruin.
Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky argued that money could not be arbitrarily abolished following a socialist revolution.
And if the computer did produce a joke, it could not separate it from the nonjokes.
But if he held him prisoner, the support for Gruffudd could not be transformed into anything more dangerous.
This caused conflict with the church, as under canon law illegitimate children could not inherit.
In this case her kindred could compel her to return if she was still a virgin, but if she was not she could not be compelled to return.
Further, a hungry man who had passed at least three towns without receiving a meal could not be punished for stealing food.
She was unable to leave for 10 days because of the wind and could not be boarded as no suitable boats were available.
Despite Louis controlling Westminster Abbey, he could not be crowned king because the English Church and the Papacy backed Henry.
He captured the Constable outside the castle and he and his men captured the outer ward but could not break into the inner defences.
They could not compete with the mills of northern England in other markets.
As a result, the judge ruled that the defendants could not receive a fair trial and all 14 were acquitted.
When the market fell, brokers called in these loans, which could not be paid back.
The liquidation of debt could not keep up with the fall of prices which it caused.
The importance of tobacco to soldiers was early on recognized as something that could not be ignored by commanders.
Lord Chief Justice William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield concluded that Somerset could not be forced to leave England against his will.
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During this era, Lord Mansfield declared that a slave who fled from his master could not be taken by force in England, nor sold abroad.
An accord between northern and southern leaders was signed in Amman, Jordan on 20 February 1994, but this could not stop the civil war.
As long as he was on his feet at the end of the ten rounds, he could not lose his title.
It could not be more inaccurate in terms of procedure, the way they talk or the way they dress.
In 2017 Y Cymro's current owners could not find a buyer and the paper closed, along with its website.
Superior Court on 10 December 1974, the album tapes could not be formally accepted by Warner Bros.
To escape this, filmmakers began moving out west, where Edison's patents could not be enforced.
This process was tedious and difficult, and vehicles were subject to damage and could not be used for routine travel.
Later experimenters could not replicate the discovery, and it was dismissed as an error for many years.
The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse slowed the evolution of amphibians who could not survive as well in the cooler, drier conditions.
Another important customer was the Telegraph Office of the General Post Office, but this could not be reached though the culverts.
Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted to produce a musical based on The Railway Series, but Awdry could not give Lloyd Webber the control he wanted.
Charles was so unpopular that he could not raise an army to fight the invasion and instead fled to Burgundy.
Under the rules of the Salic law the crown of France could not pass to a woman nor could the line of kingship pass through the female line.
Most of the English kingdoms, being in turmoil, could not stand against the Vikings.
Due to telephone landline breakups, warnings could not be forwarded from coastal to hinterland emergency offices.
He could not long outdistance such a runner as the Bishop, whose tremendous strides would surely overhaul him in the end.
The subsequent investigation determined that the explosion was probably accidental, though sabotage could not be completely ruled out.
In practice drills, cordite could not be supplied to the guns rapidly enough through the hoists and hatches.
In practice, the K class were a constant problem and could not operate effectively with a fleet.
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But Oquedo could not resist the chance to make battle with such favorable odds.
Another important concession was that the King of France could not raise a new tax without the consent of the Normans.
It took him two days, arriving in time to relieve the French garrison, but he discovered he could not rescue his fleet.
Unfortunately, the three armies could not coordinate their efforts effectively.
However the fact that the losing side could not easily escape meant that battles tended to be hard and bloody.
Nelson could not immediately make out the French flagship as the French and Spanish were not flying command pennants.
By the time the German attack froze to a halt before Moscow on December 5, 1941, it literally could not go any further.
The German land forces could not remain inactive any longer, since it would allow the Allies to reorganise their defence or escape.
May further asserted that, despite Allied mistakes, the Germans could not have succeeded but for outrageous good luck.
The German attack was resumed and continued until the German commander decided that the defenders could not be defeated before dark.
As the water supply was knocked out, the resulting fires could not be extinguished.
The route was safest from surface attacks, but the nearby minefields and sand banks meant it could not be used at night.
It could not envisage taking on the Royal Navy Home Fleet, and said it would take a year to organise shipping for the troops.
Another perspective has also been put forward, which suggests the Germans could not have gained air superiority before the weather window closed.
He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.
His achloropsia meant he could not distinguish light and dark shades of green.
It was obviously his policy to appear all things to all people. He could not venture to take any decided course.
The merchants who owned the goods claimed that the King of Almain was the lord of the town, and the Bishop could not do justice in the matter.
Despite his antitheological bias, James recognized that he could not completely discount religious doctrines.
To be sure, Mr. Panetta emphasized that the president could not bypass antitorture statutes, as Bush lawyers claimed.
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The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on.
They would think that I had abandoned them, that I could not handle the stress and pressure and this ashamed me immensely.
Shooting could not be avoided both times when we took into custody suspicious persons who turned out to be Banderites.
Having recognized his individuality, his subjectivity, having been in relationship with him, I could not render him beingless.
She was so amazed at the change in him that she could not believe her eyes.
There was no way that the two officers in the car could not have seen the bizarre, blazingly lit scene before them.
Boron, from the previously identified borolithochrome pigment, could not be determined as it likely occurs below the ppm level.
He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.
So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors.
If English were a causal ontology, you could not say or write 'I ate my house', because you cannot eat a house.
The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.
An mTOR inhibitor could not chemosensitize apoptosis incompetent esophageal cancer cells, whereas lithium could.
For me, I could not give a stuff who is vegetarian, chickenarian or what. It is up to them, just hope they make a good judgement.
Geelong could not get their running game going and lapsed into clanger after clanger.
Now when God called him, Moses told God immediately that he could not speak clear enough to be this leader.
Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.
Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
She could not meet his eyes... yet was without discomfort. The praise of his conspection was not human.
If he had taken a contradictious tone on purpose to draw Mrs. Luna out, he could not have elicited more of the information he desired.
We had an angry dialogue for a couple of minutes and could not establish the password and counter-password.
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It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.
But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.
He knew that by coming out to his family he would be crossing the Rubicon but he could not live a lie anymore.
If told that they could not stay up late the children would cry blue murder.
Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.
The derbendci, inadequate in number, could not cope with the new situation.
At first she could not move her tongue differentiatedly and moved it rather as a whole.
In our case we tried the traditional methods to remove the food bolus for over 2 hours but we could not disimpact it.
If ye could not do the next jump ye just dreeped down and ran along the ground and up the next one.
A drouthier pair of mortals could not have been found anywhere, and, at the first draught, each emptied his cup to the bottom!
All my dubitation and distress were gone, for I had something to do, although what I could not yet tell.
The ear-to-the-ground President knew that all the unrest could not be blamed on Communists.
Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.
In fact, the book was encrypted to ensure that copies could not be printed, a measure underscoring an ongoing concern about e-piracy.
Wall Street was on a fairly even keel Tuesday morning but the same could not be said for Best Buy as the company's stock plummeted.
A text that could not speak to the present was dead, and the exegete had a duty to revive it.
A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.
He placed the page face-down on the table so that we could not see its contents.
Scientists could not care less what faithists think, and we don't waste our time trying to convince them of anything.
On 24 July 1998, the silo THC analyzer's FID flamed out and could not be relighted.
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All the floaty music in the world could not disguise my grunts as I clenched my teeth and curled my toes to fight the pain.
He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.
The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.
We slouch and bellow, reminding in prayers our deathless woe And foredamn ourselves more by the ignorance of what we could not know.
This could not be applied to the forepack ballast tank but this will be generally operated at a fixed level.
The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.
You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.
He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.
John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and could not help grinning like a Cheshire cat.
But Leandro simply could not reconcile himself to the thought of her taking all the risk to save both their heinies.
It did not mention Portugal, which could not claim newly discovered lands east of the line.
Before its invention screws could not be cut to any precision using various earlier lathe designs, some of which copied from a template.
His sister Miriam, now a highschoolgirl, could not tear awkward eyes from the brother absence had changed so greatly.
If it came to blows, the younger man could not hope to hold his own with the huge policeman.
Agricultural life afforded securities that pastoral life could not, and sedentary farming populations grew faster than nomadic.
Posidonius and Strabo described an island of women where men could not venture for fear of death, and where the women ripped each other apart.
It was also a haven for Gallic rebels and the like, and so could not be left alone much longer.
This indicates a deep knowledge of a variety of historical subjects that he could not help but share.
Suetonius Paulinus rode to London, the rebels' next target, but concluded it could not be defended.
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The rebels descended on Camulodunum and destroyed it, killing all those who could not escape.
Londinium, too, was burnt to the ground and the Roman historian Tacitus claims every inhabitant who could not get away was killed.
The siege was renewed but the city could not hold out for long, and on 15 July surrendered to Sir Thomas Fairfax.
In the Humble Petition it was called the Other House as the Commons could not agree on a suitable name.
The African bishops could not come to terms and the Donatists asked Constantine to act as a judge in the dispute.
Ricimer was the son of a Suevic king and his mother was the daughter of a Gothic one, so he could not aspire to an imperial throne.
Although slavery had been illegalized by 1870, fundamental prejudice could not be legislated away.
The soldiers were trained to memorize every step in battle, so discipline and order could not break down into chaos.
Their pleasures, poor as they were, could not be preserved pure, but were imbittered by petty competitions, and worthless emulation.
Mosk could not pay his rent and was already in bad odour with his landlord.
The Albanian forces could not take part in the ensuing battle because it had started before their arrival.
One of the specific charges laid against Longchamp, by John's supporter Hugh, Bishop of Coventry, was that he could not speak English.
Richard feared his forces being bottled up in Acre as he believed his campaign could not advance with the prisoners in train.
These attempts to regulate wages could not succeed in the long run, but in the short term they were enforced with great vigour.
Each son became king in turn but died young without male heirs, leaving only daughters who could not inherit the throne.
Since they were female, they could not transmit their Capetian status to their descendants.
The French rejected the claim, maintaining that Isabella could not transmit a right that she did not possess.
Edward could not succeed in his plans for Scotland if the Scots could count on French support.
People who could not afford glass often used polished horn, cloth or even paper.
Women were appointed as deaconesses from 1861 but they could not function fully as deacons and were not considered ordained clergy.
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Philip could not speak English, and so they spoke in a mixture of Spanish, French, and Latin.
The Spanish guarded their trade routes jealously, and Mary could not condone illicit trade or piracy against her husband.
His men could not find any trace of the 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children, nor was there any sign of a struggle or battle.
If I digg'd up thy forefathers graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
As the opium trade was illegal in China, Company ships could not carry opium to China.
However, to get to the Armada, they would have to cross the zone dominated by the Dutch navy, where the Armada could not go.
Charles, however, guaranteed Strafford that he would not sign the attainder, without which the bill could not be passed.
However, Montrose, who had raised a mercenary force in Norway, had already landed and could not abandon the fight.
Charles, however, promised Strafford that he would not sign the attainder, so it could not be passed.
Impoverished, Charles could not obtain sufficient support to mount a serious challenge to Cromwell's government.
The college statutes required them to fill the vacancy within a certain time and so could not wait for a further royal nomination.
The Dutch preparations, though carried out with great speed, could not remain secret.
Architects of the 18th century could not forget Wren, but they could not forgive some elements in his work they deemed unconventional.
By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Logistical difficulties meant that French casualties could not be replaced, unlike Russian ones.
The Whigs could not get the bill past its second reading in the British House of Commons, and the bill failed.
Opponents at the time saw evidence that women were too emotional and could not think as logically as men.
Therefore, the lack of detectable expression suggested that gluconate and ketogluconate could not be formed.
It was supposed that Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and the Royal Navy could not operate under conditions of German air superiority.
Dowding agreed air defence would require some offensive action, and fighters could not defend Britain alone.
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Other targets would be considered if the primary ones could not be attacked because of weather conditions.
Morrison warned that he could not counter the Communist unrest unless provision of shelters were made.
When a neurosurgical unit eventually agreed to admit her she could not be saved.
After the Second World War, the British treasury was so weak that it could not operate independently of the United States.
As the new King of England could not read English, it was ordered that a note of all matters of state should be made in Latin or Spanish.
They insisted that they could not only control taxation, but also public expenditure.
The firefighters could not save both, and a decision was taken to try to rescue the Hall.
A district court, for example, could not rely on a Supreme Court dissent as a basis to depart from the reasoning of the majority opinion.
The effect of this was that, in criminal matters, the House of Lords could not control its own docket.
Appeal Committees could not meet while Parliament was prorogued or dissolved.
Judgment could not be given between the summoning of a Parliament and the State Opening.
Harrison also invented the bimetallic strip and the rolling bearing, without which most vehicles could not move.
The roof was low but she could not clamber up on it ladderless, hauling the long shakes and the nails, the hammer.
This meant that parish councils could not do anything outside their statutory powers.
These economists believed that genuinely free markets and voluntary exchange could not exist within the exploitative conditions of capitalism.
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
However, by 1675 the issue could not be avoided and by then his unconventional views stood in the way.
Blackstone's book stated that dissent from the Church of England was a crime and that Dissenters could not be loyal subjects.
I am sure I could not have found anywhere another companion so brilliant and yet so charming and unconceited.
When Dirac found that he could not express what he wanted to say in French, he chose to remain silent.

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