Example sentences of "[noun] refused sign the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Byelarus refused to sign the draft treaty , which would be presented to the CIS summit in September for signing . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | Alone in the Council , Cranmer refused to sign the document altering the succession , until finally he yielded to the plea of his dying godson . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Khieu Samphan refused to sign the communiqué , which he claimed was fundamentally different from the Thai document approved by the four groups in May . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ten experts refused to sign the report . |
| 12 | 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 . |