Sentence examples for firmly refusing from inspiring English sources

Clan elders bargain among themselves and cash usually changes hands, with everyone firmly refusing to call the money ransom.

The interest in Ms. Ashton's visit, which yielded no immediate breakthroughs except the news about Mr. Morsi, reflected the depth of Egypt's predicament, with the Brotherhood and the military both firmly refusing to yield.

He had fended off Williams on race while firmly refusing to discuss race itself; his allusion to "uncomfortable" facts was his only acknowledgment that he was in potentially thorny territory.

Any university considering cooperating should first read my NCTQ book chapter before firmly refusing.

She was a paradox: the ultimate sex parodist who wrote and delivered such lines as "Goodness had nothin' to do with it," and "Beulah, peel me a grape," while firmly refusing to be photographed in the nude.

She firmly refused the distraction.

They very firmly refused to accept it!

He firmly refuses, but she brings him to court.

She firmly refused to answer any questions related to politics.

The head of pastoral welfare told us to be professional, to firmly refuse.

(Guardian Australia's request to sit in on the debate was firmly refused: "Sorry, impossible").