Sentence examples for caused by refusing from inspiring English sources

It is preposterous to suggest that the "hurt" caused by refusing service to same-sex couples who can simply choose to patronize another business is greater than the hurt inflicted on business owners forced to act against their wishes or go to jail.

Grand juries have caused outcry by refusing to indict white police officers for the death of black men in different cases and attitudes to the first black President in US history appear to have hardened into a resentment and disappointment from two political wings of public and media opinion.

The likeliest disaster here will not be caused by Congress refusing to raise the debt ceiling.

Further chaos was caused by builders refusing to work overtime through christmas and the new year after 22 steel contractors were laid off.

It mainly blames a crew shortage that it says is caused by pilots refusing to work overtime because of slow progress toward a new contract, though weather has also played a role.

Delta Air Lines sued its pilots' union and 49 individual pilots today and said it would trim 100 to 125 flights from its schedule in an effort to minimize cancellations that it says have been caused by pilots refusing to work overtime.

More collapses of small firms, caused by banks refusing loans to pay for buying young fish from freshwater hatcheries and transporting them to sea cages, look likely.In this section What's it worth?

UKIP's sole MP has caused consternation by refusing to endorse Nigel Farage's return as the party's leader.

The secretive and incompetent military regime in Myanmar caused concern by refusing aid, insisting that only 59 people in the country had died.

But even in such adversity old habits die hard: the troops Australia sent to the devastated province of Aceh were viewed with suspicion by the Indonesian armed forces, which are suppressing a secessionist uprising there.Plainly, there are still tensions: Mr Howard caused offence by refusing to sign up to ASEAN's "treaty of amity and co-operation" which he instinctively feels is anti-western.

Prosecutor Ed Ryan disputed Ruiz's characterization of Hawsawi's injuries, saying they arose out of an "incident" on December 7 that Hawsawi caused himself "by refusing a lawful order from those guarding him to return to his cell".