Example sentences of "[art] government refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | When Bradford Muslims burnt copies of ‘ The Satanic Verses ’ and effigies of its author , right-thinking liberals cringed ; when the government refused to ban the book as blasphemous , even moderate Muslims felt insulted . |
2 | The Government refused to accord the privately owned press the right to claim absolute freedom of expression , since this right could be used against the majority who were voiceless . |
3 | Monetarists argued that as long as the government refused to increase the money supply , even if unemployment was increasing , there could be no inflation . |
4 | Negotiations between the government and the opposition , which disputed the November presidential election results [ see p. 39180 ] , failed after the government refused to concede the principal demand — the completion of a new voters ' register . |
5 | In the free industrial zones , trade unions were unofficially banned and the government refused to recognize the unions that were formed , although they fulfilled the legal requirements . |
6 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |