Sentence examples for be unreasonable to refuse from inspiring English sources

JUSTICE BREYER -- Well, then isn't it possible that when the court says she must accept under certain circumstances, what they mean is outside those circumstances, given the circumstances here, it would be unreasonable to refuse?

However, such draconian changes are likely to raise concerns about how well sometimes vulnerable people are advised about their choices, and who makes decisions about whether a claimant is "unreasonable" to refuse a job offer or has left a job "without good reason".

It might not be unreasonable to suggest that the dealer could have refused to sell his wares on the grounds that Steve was clearly not in a physical state to ingest them.

It might not be unreasonable to suggest that the dealer could have refused to sell him coke on the grounds that Steve was clearly not in a physical state to ingest the drug.

It may be unreasonable to demand that a grandparent relocates away from her own job and social network to care for grandchildren, and equally unreasonable to refuse an extended visit periodically, or in an emergency, or to communicate with grandchildren at a distance if this matters to the adult child.

I agree; if you have your heart set on a career in an intern-dependent field, it would be unreasonable to expect you to abandon that hope just because the people currently in charge refuse to do what's right.

While refusing to confirm the president's attendance, a Yale spokeswoman, Helaine S. Klasky, said it would not be unreasonable to expect both Mr. Bush and some protest.

"Can he be unreasonable to people?

It would have been unreasonable to expect anything but decline.

"It's unreasonable to expect people to be saints.

"It is unreasonable to have such a disparity.