Sentence examples for appalling refusal from inspiring English sources

What disturbed them was the appalling refusal of this bitterly partisan, antiregulatory Congress to join the effort.

Barbel's loyalty to her father's memory is both touching and appalling, but her refusal to admit the truth about his actions is something worse.

He said the last two years had been appalling "because of the unwillingness, refusal of the DUP and other unionists" to accept "democratic decisons".

Karimov's desire to build a secular state and oppose Islamism lent him an allure in the west, which for long periods seemed happy to overlook his appalling human rights record and his steadfast refusal to embrace democratic reform.

The guarantee, and the Y's refusal to compromise, were particularly "appalling," Mr. Zustiak said, because the Harkness doesn't have "a track record of being a festival that is well attended".

The Georgia pardon and parole board's refusal to grant him clemency is appalling in light of developments after his conviction: reports about police misconduct, the recantation of testimony by a string of eyewitnesses and reports from other witnesses that another person had confessed to the crime.

The state's refusal to let him go is not just appalling but stupid.

"I find that appalling," Representative Lou Lang, a Democrat from Skokie, said of Mr. Maram's refusal to appear.

Yet the basic problem has nothing to do with race: it lies in the appalling state of too many primary and elementary schools, and in the refusal of the teachers' unions to countenance reform or experiment.

In fact, the Reagan administration was notable for its long refusal to mention the issue of Aids, a silence that had appalling consequences.

The current impasse -- the government shutdown and the Republicans' refusal to raise the debt ceiling -- is just one (especially appalling) episode in a long-running drama.