Sentence examples for been able to refuse from inspiring English sources

Like La Motta, Robinson rebuffed offers he shouldn't have been able to refuse.

It seems no city has been able to refuse it: not cinephiles in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth or even Berlin.

Much of the show, and its subtext, might be about the crisis in masculinity itself: how men might refuse masculinity, just as women have, to an extent, been able to refuse their stereotypical roles.

Ms. Brilmayer said there had not been a single case of a state being put in that position, noting that states had long been able to refuse recognition of marriages between cousins and even recently divorced individuals.

People claiming jobseeker's allowance had been able to refuse to accept such jobs without facing penalties.

If appropriate procedures for double-checking the identity of public service personnel had existed, the guards or other personnel might have been able to refuse ABB ferry access to Utøya.

— that the company won't be able to refuse.

They will not be able to refuse governmental legislation.

Republicans will still be able to refuse to raise taxes.

Should the warfighter be able to refuse to have them reversed upon discharge?

Now, Japan has made her an offer she might not be able to refuse.