Sentence examples for elected to refuse from inspiring English sources

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When told that the two African-American members of the team would not be allowed to play because of segregation, the team elected to refuse the bowl bid.

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Consequently, individual states can now elect to refuse participation in the ACA mandates without reducing their federal Medicaid assistance.

I point out that in order to change policy he would need to be elected to Westminster but he repeatedly refuses to be drawn on whether he would - as previously hinted - stand as a prospective parliamentary candidate in Kent.

Recently, parental concerns about vaccine safety together with the growing complexity of the immunization schedules and the increasing number of injections has lead to a rising number of parents who elect to postpone or even refuse the administration of some vaccines for their children [ 5].

The entire Democratic caucus in the Senate, as well as the President-elect, asked Burris to refuse the appointment, and Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office a few days later.

That's more than twice what we're paying now because our elected officials refuse to compromise with each other and agree on a spending plan.

The children of the Southwest and Southeast cannot make progress if their elected officials refuse to recognize that children are their most important resource.

And he is betting that the American people, having just elected the first modern President to refuse to release his tax returns, are, in effect, done with ethics.

The resolution reported that party affiliates have "pressured local elected officials in the United States to refuse or withdraw support for the Falun Gong spiritual group," that Falun Gong spokespeople have had their houses have been broken into, and individuals engaged in peaceful protest actions outside embassies have been physically assaulted.

The right of the laity to refuse the person elected was abolished by a Synod held in the Lateran in 769, but restored to Roman noblemen by Pope Nicholas I during a Synod of Rome in 862.

Clarence Clarke, a fire captain at United Nations headquarters who organized the repudiated election, said he felt he had been "set up," so the polling officers that he and other union members had elected refused to step down.

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