Example sentences of "refused [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end , a court refused to enforce a six-month restraint against a Mayfair hairdresser , extending for a radius of half a mile . |
| 2 | Not only would Ulster be right to resist , but so would army officers who refused to enforce the decision of parliament : |
| 3 | If the judges refused to enforce the offensive legislation and an election was held with the same result followed by a reintroduction of the legislation , what would judges then do ? |
| 4 | Less than four hours before the scheduled start , the local fire brigade refused to issue a safety licence for the arena . |
| 5 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 6 | They also refused to support a government which relied on Russian former communists . |
| 7 | In fact , his cabinet colleagues , already unsure about public support for the bill and alienated from Dr Browne by his provocative politics , were not prepared to go against the hierarchy 's condemnation and refused to support the proposal . |
| 8 | The campaign of resistance had then succeeded , but few Unionists were celebrating ; Lord Winterton in Sussex and Willoughby de Broke in Warwickshire were among the Unionists who were preparing to spread an Irish civil war to England by setting up " commandos " of diehards among the yeomanry — but it was not clear whom they would fight if the army refused to support the government . |
| 9 | In May 1947 , after mounting disagreements , the Communists refused to support the government in a vote of confidence and premier Paul Ramadier decided to expel them from office . |
| 10 | The opposition Social Democrats refused to support the package , however , and the Riksbank ( the central bank ) was obliged to float the krona on the exchange markets , resulting in an effective 9 per cent devaluation [ see also p. 39206 ] . |
| 11 | Les Verts member Marie-Christine Blandin was subsequently elected president of the regional council in Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( long a socialist stronghold ) after the party Les Verts ( which controlled only eight of the 113 seats in the regional council ) refused to support the Socialist candidate . |
| 12 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 13 | The SNP refused to support the Government in last night 's vote in spite of claims from Government sources that the deal two weeks ago went beyond the single vote on the EC committee and that it covered timetable motions too . |
| 14 | The SNP refused to support the Government last night in spite of claims from government sources that the deal two weeks ago went beyond the single vote on the EC committee and that it covered timetable motions too . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the communists refused to support the left 's call for a transitional government headed by Mendès-France on the grounds that he was too closely associated with the new movement . |
| 16 | But he refused to compare the projected newspaper to anything on the present market , and insisted that only he could shape it . |
| 17 | Although he always treated Richard Baxter with the utmost politeness and civility , he nevertheless refused to embrace the Gospel himself and kept his family and servants away from the meetings . |
| 18 | In February 1915 the National Union Executive refused to sanction a scheme to use the party agents to find recruits , since it " might savour of compulsion " and in April the Committee refused to debate a motion on compulsory service because of the party truce . |
| 19 | They had never had an argument , apart from one occasion in 1956 , when Henry refused to wear a pair of short trousers . |
| 20 | He was unconventional — he always used to wear a woolly cap and refused to wear a tie . |
| 21 | The Maggot , who refused to wear a seat belt , shoved his throttles forward , and I felt the sweat trickling down my belly as the brakes were released and the small plane thundered down the rough surface . |
| 22 | Katherine wandered back into her bedroom and lazily sorted through her wardrobe , before finally settling on a simple gown of heavy blue satin that was at least two seasons out of date , but which served to hide her fuller figure as she refused to wear a corset . |
| 23 | who refused to wear the stuffy school uniform but came to classes in a grubby khaki shirt and shorts , would not sit properly on his chair but cross-legged on it , yawned during lessons and often stayed away from school altogether . |
| 24 | Sylvester , however , refused to wear the imperial crown above his clerical tonsure ( by this gesture perhaps accentuating the superiority of his priestly office ) . |
| 25 | Yeltsin , however , refused to suspend the decree during the investigation , and warned that any attempt by Gorbachev to countermand it would result in renewed antagonism . |
| 26 | He allegedly refused to treat the boy , insisting that he should be taken to hospital . |
| 27 | Later the Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ) was to maintain that this ceremony had gone out of use and he refused to perform the office for the English pope , Adrian IV , at Sutri in 1155 . |
| 28 | Retaliation would be allowed against a country which refused to implement a panel 's final report or failed to reach some other approved agreement within 30 days . |
| 29 | Orkney Islands Council Social Work Department refused to implement the independent decision of the Children 's Panel , and blamed the Reporter for allowing them to reach it . |
| 30 | The Ukrainian government refused to implement the new rates , considering them a violation of sovereignty , and the RSFSR government called their introduction contrary to the proposed new Union Treaty . |