Sentence examples for for refusing to act from inspiring English sources
Borel was also sharply critical of the public broadcaster for refusing to act on her initial complaint.
In an interview in her chambers on Friday, Justice Ginsburg took stock of a tumultuous term and chastised the Senate for refusing to act on President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
Most Kosovo Serbs still live in enclaves, some of which have to be protected by foreign peacekeepers.The report described by aides to its Norwegian author, Kai Eide, as a "very frank piece of paper"—will excoriate Albanian leaders for failing to protect Serbs and other minorities, and Serb politicians for refusing to act constructively in Kosovo's politics.
WASHINGTON — Members of the presidential panel that investigated the 2010 BP oil rig explosion and spill sharply criticized Congress on Tuesday for refusing to act on any of its recommendations and gave the Obama administration and the oil industry mixed marks.
Labour has accused the Conservatives of being obsessed by taxing the poor for unoccupied bedrooms while refusing to act against the super-rich who keep mansions empty for years.
After refusing to act for a man whose instructions he discovered were lies, he was sent a revolver.
As a means by which to prevent reaching an agreement, Netanyahu borrowed a page or two from the Iranian negotiating manual by playing for time and by merely preaching, for example, the two state solution for international and public consumption but refusing to act on it.
Veteran Baluch nationalists Sardar Attaullah Mengal, Nawab Khair Bux Khan Marri, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Mir Ghous Bux Bizenjo, Sher Mohammed Marri and Mir Gul Khan Naseer have spent many years in prison for defending the human rights of the Baluch people and refusing to act as quislings for the Punjabi-dominated political and military establishment in Islamabad.
How's Davis going to blame Bush for something Davis accomplished himself by refusing to act when advised of the problem in 1999, before Bush even became a presidential candidate, much less president?
"But by refusing to act, Michael Gove is paving the way for more fragile schools to run into trouble".
