Example sentences of "refused to sign [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tall one , Steve , threatened me if I refused to sign a document . ’ |
| 2 | Britain also refused to sign a Social Charter in 1989 which guaranteed certain minimum social rights to EC peoples , and it had to be said , thirty years after the Rome treaties , that European unity had not really fulfilled the high hopes of Schuman , de Gasperi or Adenauer . |
| 3 | They were denied a pay rise when they refused to sign a personal contract because they wanted to be covered by the trade union collective agreement . |
| 4 | PP : I understand that Barclays is the largest European lender to the Philippines with loans totalling over $384 million and that in 1987 you refused to sign a loan extension agreement between the Philippine government and 500 commercial creditors unless the $57 million debts of a private company , Planters Products PLC , were assumed by the government . |
| 5 | China refused to sign an ‘ unofficial ’ treaty , or to change its guidelines on the treatment Taiwanese investors should receive — which is more favourable than that offered many foreign investors . |
| 6 | They refused to sign the bond , arguing that to do so would prevent them from making any public protests . |
| 7 | It refused to sign the 1988 accounts when the thrift failed to meet minimum capital standards . |
| 8 | Alone in the Council , Cranmer refused to sign the document altering the succession , until finally he yielded to the plea of his dying godson . |
| 9 | The Bosnian Serbs refused to sign the Vance-Owen plan because , if it were ever implemented , it would make it impossible for this generation of Serbs to link Serbia proper with the Serb-held parts of Bosnia and Croatia to make them a single state . |
| 10 | He symbolically refused to sign the first Annual Report to the Minister with the traditional ‘ Your obedient servant ’ , preferring the more neutral ‘ Yours faithfully ’ . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union and its allies refused to sign the San Francisco peace Treaty in September 1951 on the grounds that it violated an agreement on ‘ one peace ’ reached in 1942 , and condemned the Security Treaty . |
| 12 | He made detailed admissions and at the end was asked whether not seeing a solicitor had made any difference , He said not , but would like to see a solicitor , and refused to sign the notes of interview until he had done so . |
| 13 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 14 | James Kilfedder ( see below North Down page 16 ) is apparently the only candidate who refused to sign the undertaking without losing the support of the coalition . |
| 15 | Khieu Samphan refused to sign the communiqué , which he claimed was fundamentally different from the Thai document approved by the four groups in May . |
| 16 | The leading rural workers ' unions refused to sign the government 's " agrarian reconciliation " agreement in September on the grounds that it was an attempt to arrest agrarian reform , did not address the needs of the rural population — an estimated 170,000 families lacked sufficient land to maintain a subsistence living — and favoured private land tenure . |
| 17 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman , who refused to sign the agreement , returned to Zagreb where he warned that " all-out war " could be imminent and convened a crisis session of the war cabinet . |
| 18 | Although the PAC and Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) refused to sign the accord they gave separate undertakings to work for peace . |
| 19 | Alone of all the nations attending Rio , the USA refused to sign the Convention , chiefly on the grounds that it would prejudice the success of the US biotechnology industry . |
| 20 | Byelarus refused to sign the draft treaty , which would be presented to the CIS summit in September for signing . |
| 21 | Even then Wilson refused to sign the budget bill until congress had passed enabling legislation which provided for a suspension of the minimum school financing requirement ( which , under the terms of a 1988 initiative , had been set at 40 per cent of the state 's general fund ) should the education loan be ruled unconstitutional in court . |
| 22 | They did not always meet with success , however ; Parker 's clergy , for example , refused to sign the address . |
| 23 | Ten experts refused to sign the report . |
| 24 | Alone of all the nations attending Rio , the USA refused to sign the Convention , chiefly on the grounds that it would prejudice the success of the US biotechnology industry . |
| 25 | This represents a reversal of the previous US policy , as former President Bush refused to sign the treaty when it was first proposed at last year 's Earth summit in Rio [ see ED 59/60 ] . |
| 26 | Britain had Europe 's poorest record in nursery education , child care and part time workers ' rights and the position was worsened when Britain refused to sign the EC social charter , he added . |
| 27 | The CFDT then refused to sign the agreements and called for intensification of the strike movement . |