Sentence examples for faction refused from inspiring English sources

When his faction refused to discuss the constitutional reform in parliament, protests flared.

The Douglas faction refused to accept a platform, modeled after Yancey's Alabama Platform of 1848, committed to protecting slavery in the territories.

Local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere, a leading figure in her relatively youthful 'G40' faction, refused to answer Reuters questions about the situation in Harare.

After an acrimonious state convention in 1847 (in which the Henshaw faction refused to allow platform items opposing slavery), Morton quit the party for the burgeoning Free Soil movement.

Barkley's convention address attacked Republicans and praised the Democrats' record without making reference to prohibition, but many in the Beckham faction refused to accept Black, and he was defeated in the general election by Republican Edwin P. Morrow.

This country cannot continue to lurch from crisis to crisis because one radical faction refuses to accept the results of an election.

In 1969 he resigned his post of speaker of the Palestine National Council when the PLO factions refused to make the organisation's financial assets transparents.

While the lion's share of FARC fighters, roughly 7,000, disarmed and entered lives as civilians and politicians, a number of so-called dissident factions refused to give up the fight and continued rebel and drug trafficking activity.

Prayuth launched his coup after rival factions refused to give ground in a struggle for power between the royalist establishment and a populist government that had raised fears of serious violence and damaged the economy.

Mr. Lopez, Mr. Levin and a faction of the Satmar Hasidic sect refused to support the project until the developer promised that 30 percent of the units would be moderately priced.

"There are some armed factions refusing to give children back.