Sentence examples for by refusing to maintain from inspiring English sources

Westland also complied with the sanctions by refusing to maintain any U.S.-made components.

Lithuania, which had refused to maintain relations with Poland because of the dispute over Vilnius, yielded.

"These people refuse to maintain their property," Mrs. McDaniel, a retired Newark schoolteacher, said with indignation.

"On more than one occasion, he refused to maintain the good behavior and standards the other detainees maintained," Mr. Gill said, so he was placed in solitary confinement.

They've refused to maintain the elevator properly.

This empire refuses to maintain levee walls but runs to build border walls.

The bank disappointed the markets last month by refusing to reduce rates, maintaining that the dangers of inflation were too serious to be ignored.

"By refusing to compromise and insisting on maintaining a high labor cost structure, the union leadership has ensured that the jobs that they were trying to protect would eventually disappear from the Bronx forever," the statement said.

This concept, which sprang from a famous article by two criminologists in Atlantic Monthly in March 1982, maintains that by refusing to tolerate tiny infractions of the law dropping litter, spray-painting walls the authorities can create a climate in which crime of more dangerous kinds finds it impossible to flourish.

I sincerely hope it maintains this status by refusing to reverse its decision".

No one was allowed to approach the emperor armed, but Tiridates I maintained his dignity by refusing to remove his sword as he approached the ruler of the Roman Empire (though as a compromise, he agreed to have his sword firmly fastened in the sheath, so that it could not be drawn).