Sentence examples for attempting to refuse from inspiring English sources

Attempting to refuse on the grounds that his music is currently banned in Russia, Shostakovich finds himself instantly rehabilitated.

HuffPost is keeping a running tally of the states attempting to refuse Syrians.

Three years ago, Peter O'Toole attempted to refuse a lifetime achievement Oscar, on roughly the same grounds that Evelyn Waugh turned down a CBE in 1959.

Women will still be able to attempt to refuse sexual advances, and can still try to prevent them by physical means, but a crucial illocutionary form of protection will be closed to them.

When I hear these cases I begin to wonder about the potential abuses of government power when security services and law enforcement personnel can question us under medical duress--including medication and invasive bodily searches--without a warrant, while we attempt to refuse, and without reading our rights to us or supplying a lawyer if we ask for one.

You DID drive the Bus DIDN'T you?" "I've had cabs called for me while staying at nice hotels that upon seeing me waiting in front of the hotel have attempted to refuse to take me somewhere until a concierge worker or someone from the hotel pressed the issue.

Stirling's attempt to refuse the request, calling it "vexatious", smacks of fear.

"The very attempt to refuse creepiness and use every possible means to stave it off is precisely what makes the awkward, obsessive man creepy," Kotsko writes.

then, these authors argue, women's attempts to refuse sexual advances will be characteristically inert with respect to the speech act of refusal.

I am calling on Brian Cookson and his campaign supporters to accept that and to put an end to their concerted attempts to refuse the congress a choice between two candidates".

Men are allegedly so misinformed by pornography that they will systematically misinterpret women's attempts to refuse sex, and juries and the public at large are likely to dismiss or trivialize the testimony of sexual assault victims (Langton 2009, 297).