Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] refused [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past he has always refused to deny the relationship ‘ on the record ’ and Camilla has also maintained a dignified silence . |
| 2 | ‘ Yet the Labour Party has repeatedly refused to repudiate the TUC motion rejecting inward investment as alien . |
| 3 | The former king condemns the Kabul regime with the same tone he used when the Soviet troops were in Afghanistan and has also refused to endorse the mujahedin interim government in Peshawar . |
| 4 | It is impossible to check the validity of this statement , as the Government has consistently refused to provide the key information necessary to make this calculation , namely details on what would have paid out in the uprating allowance of supplementary benefit had it still been in force in April 1988 . |
| 5 | The artist 's widow did not think it appropriate that the work should have ended up on the commercial circuit and has therefore refused to sign the document . |
| 6 | The last experiment , the post-revolutionary Constituent Assembly , lasted but 24 hours after it had tiresomely refused to recognize the authority of the Bolshevik government . |
| 7 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 8 | It may be that the privilege will be held to exist where the only possible mode of communication is via the media , for example if the appropriate authority had arbitrarily refused to consider the information . |
| 9 | Most recently he had also refused to attend the UNCED summit , which he described as a " funeral wake " , arguing that the failure to agree on a carbon tax " deluded expectations and eluded responsibility " [ see p. 38947 ] . |
| 10 | However , Ukraine invited representatives from the other CIS states to meet on Feb. 25 to negotiate repayment mechanisms ; at the meeting , which Russia had not attended , Ukraine had offered to become responsible for the share of the debt incurred by Moldova , Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan , which had also refused to sign the memorandum ( their share of the debt being minimal ) . |
| 11 | An annulment of his marriage was deemed essential not only because Anne had steadfastly refused to become the royal mistress , but more importantly because Henry was deeply anxious about the succession . |
| 12 | Government negotiators had again refused to consider the proposal , as in previous peace talks held in San José on July 21-26 and Aug. 17-22 . |
| 13 | The protesters withdrew , but were angered by news that the council had again refused to meet the deputation , although accepting an amendment that the next general purposes committee would receive it . |
| 14 | Iraq had previously refused to destroy the complex , arguing that it served civilian purposes . |
| 15 | However , the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , had subsequently refused to allow the Assembly to convene and had ordered a crackdown on the NLD . |
| 16 | Leaders of such religions , whose pronouncements undoubtedly influenced those missionaries , have persistently refused to accept the truth of the fact that , there is no ‘ god ’ with powers to override the laws of survival , these are inexorable and do not include any element of compassion . |
| 17 | ‘ The many controversies about the election of the said officer [ the wakeman ] and about contempts made by persons who having been lawfully chosen and elected to the said office according to ancient custom and continual practice yet have utterly refused to undergo the said office or satisfy the ordinary fines accustomed and adjudged for contempts . ’ |
| 18 | The Home Unions have steadfastly refused to alter the timing of the tour to accommodate the Wallaby tour to South Africa and have also denied the ARU 's request to permit the Wallabies to tour South Africa prior to arriving in Ireland and Scotland . |