The phrase "alone to refuse" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of being the only one who refuses something, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "She felt alone to refuse the offer, as everyone else accepted it."
Alternatives: "the only one to refuse" or "solely to refuse".
But the British government is not alone in trying to refuse the return of foreign fighters and their families.
Respondents who lived alone were significantly more likely to refuse the diagnostic assessment than those living with someone.
Durga, a village health care worker assured Asu that she was not alone and that her decision to refuse early marriage was also backed by the government and the police.
It is rude for a person to refuse to leave you alone when you have asked them to.
Hospitals may go it alone and refuse to impose the new contract on junior doctors proposed by the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, on NHS trainee medics from August.
I am sorry... but if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful". Fisher was not really alone.
Gay people marrying or becoming pregnant, individuals migrating from one gender to another, let alone refusing to commit to either, occasion immense turbulence in thought systems that depend on orderly separation and partition, which is part of the reason that the trans rights movement has proved so depressingly threatening to certain quarters of feminist thought.
At the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Manchester (see article), he was alone in refusing to commit to attending a rally against the coalition government's planned spending cuts.
A video shot by an onlooker and widely watched online shows Garner telling the officers to leave him alone and refusing to be handcuffed.
The video shot by an onlooker shows the 43-year-old Garner, who was black, telling the officers to leave him alone and refusing to be handcuffed.
