Sentence examples for essentially refused from inspiring English sources

Last Friday, defying not only the service but also the courts, the corps essentially refused.

"All of Wall Street has essentially refused to deal with the real costs of the litigation that they are up against," said Christopher Whalen, a senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners.

The group lost the support of most revolutionaries, and opposition grew steadily for the next six months, until many state institutions, including the police, essentially refused to work on behalf of Morsi's government.

Named Feminist Times after the original founders of Spare Rib essentially refused to collaborate on the project, the magazine has already been forced to delete an anonymous article in praise of forced sterilisations after activists took to Twitter to express their outrage.

He has refused virtually every attempt to settle his differences with the Congolese government, and in the wake of his military triumphs has essentially refused to recognize the legitimacy of the first elected government that Congo has known in more than four decades.

The German courts essentially refused to convict or seriously punish those the allies had designated as major war criminals.

Thus far, the government has stonewalled, essentially refusing to comply.

His officials show up at peace talks but essentially refuse to negotiate.

Law enforcement officials said that Mr. Powell had started taking a breath test and then stopped before it was completed, essentially refusing to take it.

The nursing home told him not to worry: If he signed a document essentially refusing to support his wife of several decades, Medicaid, the federal insurance program for the indigent, would pick up the bill.

In the months since, however, lawyers for the City of New York have presented a far more aggressive stance against the wounded bystanders who have sued, essentially refusing to settle the cases and moving to have them thrown out before trial.