Sentence examples for consciously refused from inspiring English sources
"The Fed deliberately and consciously refused to regulate the mortgage industry like it was supposed to have done.
The administration that now offers the excuse that HSBC is too big to prosecute is the same one that quite consciously refused to attempt to break up these banks in the aftermath of the "too-big-to-fail" crisis of 2008, as former TARP overseer Neil Barofsky, among others, has spent years arguing.
Chris Leslie, the previous shadow chancellor, was one of the first to sink his teeth in, followed by about 20 other Labour MPs, who consciously refused to support McDonnell's opposition to the "fiscal charter" requiring governments to run a budget surplus by 2019.
The Obama White House, quite consciously, refused to draw a line around the public plan even as Senate Democrats practically begged for them to do so.
The book, by the way, consciously refuses to take those figurative quote-marks away from the event – in the direction of one certainty or another.
What made me stop in these two cases, when so often I've passed by, no doubt quickening my pace the sooner to escape my own bad odour of mingled smugness and guilt at consciously refusing the charitable act?
What the labels don't recognize, or consciously refuse to recognize, is that there was a very real community on OiNK.
Clark, with help from his mother, regains control over his mind and consciously refuses to look for the stones.
In its final track, an album that has strenuously avoided cliches bursts gloriously into them, and a singer who has self-consciously refused beauty gives us thick, textural harmonies as satisfying as something Phil Spector might have produced.
It's a calm, healing movie with a sweetly emollient musical score, and it consciously – counterintuitively – refuses to engage with the divisive political anger and revulsion that might be expected to be the focus of a film about terror victims.
Historian Allan Bérubé documented that homosexuals in the armed forces either consciously or subconsciously refused to identify themselves as homosexual or lesbian, and also never spoke about others' orientation.
