The phrase "a way of refusing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or approaches to decline or reject something.
Example: "She found a way of refusing the invitation without hurting his feelings."
Alternatives: "a method of declining" or "a means of rejecting".
In David Cromer's robust new revival (at the Walter Kerr), Artie (Ben Stiller), in this scene, is provocatively planted with his back to the audience — a way of refusing the character's charm and emphasizing his lack of control.
In situations like these, according to the psychologist Rod Martin, Humor is a way of refusing to be overcome by the people and situations, both large and small, that threaten our well being.
Marx believed that man could be made perfect; Communists found that people had an irritating way of refusing to be perfected.
A refusal to even to sit at a bargaining table is another way of refusing to govern.
"When the only thing that matters in the final analysis is how big you're getting and how fast, which is what's shown to produce these multibillion-dollar returns, what you get is a culture of looking the other way, of refusing to deal with what ought to be an affront to people," Mitch Kapor told me a few days after Kalanick resigned.
They accuse the UK of using these agreements in an unscrupulous way, as a means of refusing to take in refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East, including unaccompanied children with family connections in the UK.
The politician said there was a perception that the UK was using a bilateral agreement with France in an "unscrupulous way, as a means of refusing to take in refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East, including unaccompanied children with family connections in the UK".
"To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some is one way of refusing to face the issues," he writes.
This is a complex environmental issue Perhaps unsurprisingly given the church's stance on birth control, and in common with many environmentalists, he thinks consumption rather than overpopulation is the bigger environmental problem: To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.
The second use of the term correctly points to the arrogance and danger of ignoring excessive consumption: "To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues".
And then she positively owns Cersei, asking, "I wonder if you're the worst person I've ever met?" It's a rhetorical question, and a hell of a way to refuse an olive branch, but this is not a show where wit and care prevail.
