Sentence examples for deliberate refusal from inspiring English sources

Deliberate refusal to engage with ideas, ethics or even reality.

10 His deliberate refusal, continuing his contempt, cf. Yates v. United States, 355 U.S. 66, 75, 78 S.Ct.

Given The Post's extensive efforts to contact every lawmaker, nonresponse may be its own type of response: a deliberate refusal to engage on the issue.

Its efforts to build infrastructure have been derisory; the deliberate refusal to reach a decision about airport capacity around London is a particular blow to the capital's ability to compete against Paris and Frankfurt.

In a report released Wednesday, the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs said Apple's "stubbornly evasive" posture toward the accusations "can only be seen as a deliberate refusal of responsibility" for environmental issues.

"I am opposed to millionaires," he noted, "but it would be dangerous to offer me the position". Twain's great virtue as a writer, his genius, was his deliberate refusal of borrowed propriety or scale.

Section 192, like the ordinary federal criminal statute, requires a criminal intent—in this instance, a deliberate, intentional refusal to answer.

And the deliberate human refusal of this shared vocation with and within the material order of things is thus an act of rebellion against the creator.

924, but is deliberate in its refusal to appraise the practical effect of this ordinance as a deterrent to interstate commerce, 341 U.S. 639, 71 S.Ct.

Each mention of "gridlock" under Obama must be wrought in truth: that "gridlock" was a deliberate and systematic refusal of the Republican Congress to work with him.

Women are being held back in the classical music world by deliberate prejudice and refusal to introduce family-friendly work policies, according to Jude Kelly, artistic director of the Southbank Centre, which is among the country's leading classical music venues.