Sentence examples for by refusing to speak from inspiring English sources

Blé Goudé waved an American flag and delighted the crowd by refusing to speak French.

And he infuriated everybody by refusing to speak out clearly on affirmative action during the election campaign.

Voters vote with their emotions, and if you misinform their emotions by refusing to speak negative truths about your opponent, you are misleading the electorate and endangering your candidacy.

By refusing to speak out against the slow but certain extinction of the country's pachyderms and rhinos, both whose tusks and horns are treasured by Kenya's newest BFF China, it is just a matter of time before Sir Branson's vision of a "landscape... alive with a majestic kingdom of animals... hundreds of lions, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes and wildebeest" becomes just that -- a mirage.

While Wesley Snipes gambled his career away by reportedly refusing to speak, Reynolds secured his through strategic eye-rolling and improvising the only memorable line in the movie ("You cock-juggling thundercunt").

And you can't keep climate change at bay by simply refusing to speak its name.

His story is spliced with that of his prosecutor (in 17th-century wig and coat), whose mother is shown being executed by drowning for refusing to speak church- and state-appeasing words (a scene played twice to the accompaniment of a song hauntingly keened by Myra McFadyen).

This means, by way of example, refusing to speak on panels or in spaces that are not diverse, recommending some of the many talented women I know for jobs or speaking gigs, and partnering with women whose privilege set does not match mine to do wide-ranging gender justice work.

By ignoring the issues and refusing to speak up, we only perpetuate the idea that disability is not okay and that it is something to be hidden.

In their famous family feud, two brothers operated food shops separated only by a brick wall for 25 years, refusing to speak to each other.

Normalcy of a sort is restored by strangling the memory of what happened, refusing to speak of it at all.