Sentence examples for earlier refusal from inspiring English sources

Yashika was supposed to have gone on Sunday, but her supporters said Air Mauritius had refused to fly her out, following an earlier refusal by British Airways.

That is striking, given an earlier refusal to join Mr Singh's administration.

The Maoists were retaliating against General Katwal's earlier refusal to abandon an army recruitment drive, as the government and UN had said he should.

Europe's earlier refusal to countenance default gave some lucky bondholders a year in which they could get repaid in full with loans granted by official creditors.

Yet an earlier refusal by supervisors and banks to recognise the scale of the problem contributed to an erosion of confidence in both banks and in government finances.

It has shaken the commission's president, Jacques Santer, whose immediate response to the parliament's earlier refusal to approve the accounts for 1996 was complacent and curmudgeonly.

The Sunday Telegraph rightly commented at the time that the nation was being punished for its "earlier refusals to recognise the importance of the 19th-century master.

Over the past few days he has been meeting with Mr. Kagame, and some indications emerged Wednesday night that Mr. Kabila had been persuaded to negotiate with the M23, despite earlier refusals.

Israel has interpreted the Palestinians' earlier refusals to negotiate because of Har Homa as an essentially rhetorical crisis intended to push Washington to intervene to move the talks along, an Israeli government official said on condition of anonymity.

On the subject of releasing his tax returns, however, Mr. Corzine has shown no sign of movement -- or perhaps more precisely, no sign that he expects his former colleagues at Goldman Sachs might budge from their earlier refusals.

The German companies' earlier refusals to publish those lists, and contention that they had failed to honor various agreements during the last four years, nearly unraveled the international negotiations.