Word: cannot
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More is at stake than the survival of a single species. Conservationists fear that if they cannot rally to the rescue of earth's largest land mammal, there is little hope of preventing a multitude of lesser creatures from slipping into extinction. The elephant has become emblematic of the wild and the struggle to preserve...
...cannot exist 'half slave, half free' in women's rights," Yard said. "One hundred and thirty years ago we fought a civil war because this country could not exist 'half-slave half-free.' Once again, America is embattled...
...exception that a landlord is a person who cannot afford representation," Dee said. "And even a small landlord has experience going down to the Rent Control Board. A tenant is less likely to have experience in that...
...road between the Harvard Undergraduate Council and the University administration is paved with impotence. Technically, the council holds no real political power. All the Council resolutions in the world cannot force anyone in the administration to act on anything...
...everything with equal curiosity: he is as interested in the way a formidable old nun grips her crucifix -- like a weapon -- as in the way the left hand of his monarch Philip IV rests, lightly but not quite negligently, on the hilt of his sword. There is nothing he cannot draw, though no drawings by Velazquez survive. That, however, is part of his fascination to eyes conditioned by the spontaneity of painting since Manet, for now that Velazquez's paint has aged, one sees the radical shifts and erasures of form below the unperturbed surface. There is no texture...