Sentence examples for by refusing to accede from inspiring English sources

(At the G-8 summit this summer, the President embarrassed British Prime Minister Tony Blair by refusing to accede even to minor modifications in this position).

Mr. Blair, by refusing to accede to the protesters' demands to cut fuel taxes, has increasingly become the target of the protesters, and tonight he upped the stakes by angrily denouncing the demonstrations.

Organizers said the event was intended as a personal demonstration of commitment to their religion and to the ideals of public service embodied by their patron, who was executed in 1535 for refusing to accede to King Henry VIII's claim to be head of the English church.

And an irate lawyer from Suffolk has just persuaded a publisher to issue a whole book on the iniquity of refusing to accede to the demands of the people of Sudbury (Betraying the NHS, by Michael Mandelstam).

After World War I Fritz Thyssen was arrested for refusing to accede to the demands of French authorities occupying the Ruhr.

For Bolt, Thomas More, refusing to accede to the king's break with the Catholic church, was the conscience-struck hero and Thomas Cromwell a power-hungry skulker.

The attacks were apparently meant to punish Ms. Hanover for refusing to accede to her husband's request in court last Friday to impose a gag order on the proceedings.

But the Turkish government denies that what happened was a genocide, refusing to accede to a mountain of research that makes it clear that the Ottoman Turks engaged in a campaign to eradicate Armenians from Turkey.

And now, the decision to clear out Rabaa, the military leaders argued — in words their supporters loudly echoed — had been forced on them by the intransigence of the Brotherhood: the group, they said, refused to accede to the reality of their newfound situation, or modify their demands that Morsi be fully reinstated.

He refused to accede to their wishes.

Israel refused to accede to the terrorists' demands to release Palestinian prisoners, and the nine remaining hostages and their captors were eventually transported by helicopters to a military airfield, where officials said they were to be flown to Cairo.