Sentence examples for bound to refuse from inspiring English sources

So they hit on the brilliant reverse—"Godfather" strategy of making him an offer he was bound to refuse.

Although foreign providers are not legally bound to refuse services to Iranians, they err on the safe side for fear of getting into trouble.

The difficulty for the chancellor was that, having been for so long denied, people want jam, which he was bound to refuse them.

Many services are denied to Iranians not because providers are legally bound to refuse them but because they err on the side of safety for fear of running foul of the policy.

Many services are denied to Iranians not because providers are legally bound to refuse them under international sanctions but because they err on the safe side for fear of running foul of the policy.

Am I ethically bound to refuse to order the test because its purpose is clearly not to treat substance abuse but to aid in the defense of a suspect?

Or do they retain the bias that some of them are bound to have, and simply refuse to allow themselves to act on it?

Prior to giving such authorisation, the proposed ATT would require that countries assess the risk that the transfer of weapons might be used for violations of human rights and bind them to refuse permission where that risk is apparent.

Back in Pigeon Creek all those years ago, she married Jake and is still legally bound to him, since he refused to divorce her.

They refuse to be bound to the broken temples of commerce and manufacturing, the vacant Beaux Arts hotels, the rotting nineteenth-century row houses, the abandoned sidings and once-grand railway stations that inscribe Scranton and Wilkes-Barre and diminish Pittsburgh and Lancaster.

But it refuses to be bound to an international agreement that does not require larger, verifiable reductions from the United States and other wealthy countries.