Sentence examples for expressed refusal from inspiring English sources
He "set aside" his ward's and the parents' articulately expressed refusal of a blood transfusion and ruled for the hospital.
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.
They can refuse this possibility by filling a form to express refusal and in this case tumor biopsies were destroyed.
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".
It expressed their refusal to comply with the communists' efforts to create a "new" society.
Under the new law, based on the tenet "no means no" or "nein heißt nein", a victim who verbally expressed their refusal to give consent would be able to file a criminal complaint.
He writes: Remembering them, the innocent dead, I must thrust a dagger calmly Into my eyes Must purchase with blindness Clarity of the brain For that bone-devouring memory Is best expressed By refusal.
And it was not difficult to see how, after the West abandoned its military options against Syria under Russian duress – and after the British and American people expressed their refusal to embark upon another Middle East war – Syria's international status was, to some extent, redeemed.
For now, all eyes are on the Philippines' new president, Rodrigo Duterte, who has expressed his refusal to flaunt the verdict to taunt China in order to avoid further escalation.
