Sentence examples for about the refusal of from inspiring English sources

The story Carberry told about the refusal of the England hierarchy to fly his mother to Australia was heart-breaking".

Mr. Mukasey was equally disappointing about the refusal of certain administration witnesses to answer Congressional subpoenas to testify about the United States attorneys scandal.

Merkel was diplomatic about the refusal of other EU countries, with the exception of Sweden and Austria, to shoulder the burden.

Mr. Carter was particularly concerned about the refusal of the United States and South Korea to send humanitarian assistance to the North, saying their deliberate withholding of food aid amounted to "a human rights violation".

Readers of Paul Krugman and other like-minded commentators are familiar with their repeated complaints about the refusal of economists to revise their theories in the face of recalcitrant facts.

The United States has also expressed concern about the refusal of the Laotian government to help in the investigation of two missing American citizens and a resident, all of Laotian origin, who disappeared this year.

Re your Oct. 4 editorial about Italy and the refusal of Silvio Berlusconi's political party to back him in bringing down Prime Minister Enrico Letta's government: This is without doubt good news for Italy and good news for Europe and the rest of the world.

Perhaps part of what is so appealing, so fascinating about "Mad Men" is the refusal of bourgeois ordinariness, the struggle against it, in all of its poetic and mundane and tragic forms.

The you-should-have-known inquisition, with this week's target Condoleezza Rice, is surrogate for a more contentious backward glance: Did concern about missile defense and the refusal of Saddam to permit U.N. inspections somehow keep us from preventing 9/11?

At one time, in Spain, it was criminal to publish details about an encounter or even the refusal of one, lest such actions sustain the custom.

Perhaps the most contentious issue about Curriculum 2000 has been the refusal of many universities to accept that the study of key skills should form the basis of any offer made to applicants.