Sentence examples for described refusing from inspiring English sources

No doctors described refusing to take such samples.

This building worker describes refusing the offer: It's the same old scenario.

A government might be described as refusing to recognize a foreign dictator because, it believes, his recent "election" was fraudulent.

For example, Alberti [ 75] described how, refusing to accept separation from their partners, migrant women detained in Pagani center in Mytilene (Lesvos, Greece), turned down the offer by the Greek government to relocate them and their children to a more "human camp".

Feminist Natasha Walter said modern-day feminists were "standing on the shoulders of giants"; Ann Leslie described being refused a mortgage because she was a woman; Paris Lee said the internet had changed things; Anna Span said she called herself a post-structuralist.

I acknowledged to him that I could not help bursting out laughing, despite the horror of the situation depicted, upon reading the preface to Race Matters, in which he described being refused by ten successive taxis in New York on his way to the photo shoot for the book cover, then giving up and taking the subway, arriving late.

He described Democrats as refusing to applaud even positive news, and said they'd prefer to see him do badly than the country do well.

One woman described a nurse refusing to remove her drip because she had made a "special case" of herself.

They described how BT refused to listen – and made them pay.

In a piece written for DealBook, Mr. Kinnucan described why he refused to cooperate with the authorities.

I asked the doctor, 'Will you take care of this human being?' " But the doctor, whom Masri described as American, refused to help.