Sentence examples for ground for refusing from inspiring English sources

If they don't comply, nothing much happens, but it would be very easy to add a line to the Licensing Act, which would make refusing to comply with equality legislation a ground for refusing a licence.

It is one thing to accept that the world may not have the resources and the dexterity at this moment to provide the finest of medical care to all, but that is not a reason for eliminating our search for ways of proceeding towards just that, nor a ground for refusing to provide whatever can be easily provided right now for all.

Indeed, some have argued that once one accepts the former practice, there is no moral ground for refusing the second.

Now, safety and the environment are grounds for refusing orders, they said.

Thus there are overwhelmingly compassionate grounds for refusing to extradite Gary McKinnon, the hacker suffering from Asperger's.

In its grounds for refusing to publish details of the memorandum the Home Office has admitted it "contains information relating to the UK's security co-operation with Saudi Arabia".

Duffy's predecessor as poet laureate, Andrew Motion, has written a poem called A Moment of Reflection, inspired by Siegfried Sassoon's statement to his commanding officer explaining his grounds for refusing to serve further in the army.

But a legal report commissioned by Die Linke party and seen by the Guardian claims that Germany could have grounds for refusing an extradition request if the prosecution against Snowden could be shown to be "of political character".

According to AFP guidelines in 2004, the attorney general had decided that police would adopt a future policy where a lack of guarantees of no death penalty could be grounds for refusing requests from overseas police.

But a legal report commissioned by die Linke [the Left] party and seen by the Guardian claims that Germany could have grounds for refusing an extradition request if the prosecution against Snowden could be shown to be "of political character".

Government officials must strictly respond to the application within 30 days, either by providing the required information or explaining the grounds for refusing it.