Sentence examples for express refusal from inspiring English sources

They can refuse this possibility by filling a form to express refusal and in this case tumor biopsies were destroyed.

Another situation can accrue when the child is old enough to express refusal to treatment and asks the court to intervene (like the teenage girl who refused chemotherapy).

For an instance of this Court's express refusal to give the surface literal meaning to a jurisdictional provision on the ground that to do so would not be consistent with the 'sense of the thing' and would confer upon this Court a jurisdiction beyond what 'naturally and properly belongs to it,' see American Security & Trust Co. v. Commissioners of District of Columbia, 224 U.S. 491, 495, 32 S.Ct.

He "set aside" his ward's and the parents' articulately expressed refusal of a blood transfusion and ruled for the hospital.

Dummett observes, "We have no negation of the conditional of natural language, that is, no negation of its sense: we have only a form for expressing refusal to assent to its assertion".

Three weeks later, faced with the patient's complete dependence on mechanical ventilation and her clearly and repeatedly expressed refusal of ventilatory support, and after numerous discussions with those concerned, the medical team decided to remove ventilatory support and the patient was extubated.

Since expressed refusal requires the willingness and capacity to register the disinclination to participate, a degree of involvement greater than that required for no reply, it seems plausible that people who explicitly refuse to participate might differ systematically from nonparticipants who simply do not respond.

Nurses explained refusals to comply – clearly expressed refusals, or patients who agree but simply do not go – in different ways.

A sceptical reader emailed to express his refusal to believe in the existence of a child like Kevin, except in a horror story.

In the 1960s, you could express your refusal to conform by wearing your hair long (but so did everyone else), demonstrating in the street (ditto), wearing flowers round your neck (ditto), smoking marijuana (ditto), attending rock festivals and dancing in the mud with nothing on (ditto) or taping a Che Guevera poster to your wall (ditto).

My preferred political gesture is to act on my belief that most people in all countries either wish me well or aren't interested in me one way or another (either is fine with me), and to express my refusal to live in fear through my writing and public speaking.