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Example sentences for "cannot fail"

  • A close observer of the past and present religious and political condition of this country, cannot fail to see an evident and manifest change in both, especially during the last ten or twenty years.

  • His answer was, "we do not deem it prudent to do so; we cannot fail to kill Jesuitism in Italy, and there will be an end of it.

  • For a Similar Reason, carpets whose colours are all of what artists call middle tint (neither dark nor light), cannot fail to look dull and dingy, even when quite new.

  • This dish is enough for six people, and it cannot fail to be excellent if the receipt be closely followed.

  • The perspiration and dirt with which these parts are frequently covered, cannot fail to obstruct their pores.

  • This doctrine of prime matter and form, which the scholastics adopted and adapted from the Greeks, and especially from Aristotle, cannot fail to be of interest even to modern scientists.

  • In its development a more constant and more even progress cannot fail to be seen.

  • Without that assistance I shall surely fail; with it, I cannot fail.

  • I think he cannot fail to relish it, for he never has tasted a better drink or one that has cost so much.

  • I will not discuss the matter more, for you have surely done so much for me that I cannot fail you in any need.

  • I know what his intention is: he thinks now that he cannot fail to take me off defenceless with him.

  • The marriage of my daughter, Dorothy, with the last male representative of our ancient house, cannot fail to be regarded by me with entire satisfaction.

  • All this district impressed me very much, both from a geographical and an ethnological point of view, and by its magnitude it cannot fail to appeal to our minds.

  • The orphanages are most successful, and the leper establishments--where those living dead are cared for by the nuns at the sacrifice of their own lives--cannot fail to excite universal admiration.

  • The observer must have sentiment; and even so it may or may not appeal to him, and he may like it or not, yet he cannot fail to regard it as impressive and imposing.

  • Whatever our opinions of Chinese art may be, we cannot fail to admire its vigour and its refinement.

  • The paintings, however, cannot fail to attract the attention, although the time allowed to look at them is little short of aggravation.

  • It is in this particular that the work appears to possess its chief merit, and on this account it cannot fail of being preferred to many others.

  • Nevertheless these attempts, after all, cannot fail to be more or less misleading, since the best books and the best pictures do not number exactly a hundred.

  • These Testimonies, if they proceed from critical pens, cannot fail to have due influence on all impartial observers.

  • But when again you see my prince, tell him that all my thoughts are his, and I am sure he cannot fail.

  • With such sweet faith and love to bless me, I cannot fail.

  • This is indeed something so rare that when we meet it we cannot fail to love it, but it is not everything.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot bring; cannot deny; cannot describe; cannot doubt; cannot express; cannot give; cannot hope; cannot imagine; cannot know; cannot pass; cannot refuse; cannot remember; cannot represent; cannot save; cannot say; cannot tell; cannot think; cannot understand; good people; like that; mare clausum; raining hard; said the little lady; sharp minor; that while; trouble you