Sentence examples for chance to refuse from inspiring English sources

So we've been following news out of Seattle, which last October became the first American city to mandate that phone-book publishers provide citizens ("customers" would be the wrong word) with the chance to refuse delivery of those thudding tomes.

But you may take a page from Frank Sinatra and do it your way, as long as your guests know what they're in for, and they have a chance to refuse.

In Re Boyes, Kay J came to the conclusion that communication requires allowing the trustee the chance to refuse his office; as such, it cannot be done after death.

Formal consent prior to contact for patient follow-up was not required since all patients who were contacted had the chance to refuse completion of the questionnaire.

23 By actively seeking an invitation, the physician has an opportunity to confirm readiness, and it gives the patient a chance to refuse and/or possibly defer to a loved one.

The primary outcome variable, asked of HCV and HIV, allowed respondents to select one of three screening options: (1) universal screening of all blood samples without patient knowledge of the test and without receiving negative results, (2) universal screening without receiving negative results but with a chance to refuse testing, or (3) screening based on clinician judgment.

The renter, who had declined the chance to purchase, refused to grant access.

And his only chance at a future is to refuse to accept himself that his weight gain is irrevocable.

If that were to be done, the ethical issues are more complex than they might seem: is it ethical to refuse the chance to eliminate a serious genetic disease in a future individual "without their consent"?

And there are a lot of times when I am tempted to "fix" things for them and know that I can't, and that to do so would be to refuse them the chance to learn and grown and experience the joy of being independent, competent adults.

In fact, having researched the history of public shaming in America in the Massachusetts Archives, he can only conclude that Lehrer, for one, was humiliated to a degree that would have been thought excessive even in the 18th century, the Puritans of New England having seemingly worked out that to ruin a person in front of his fellows is also to refuse him a second chance in life.