Sentence examples for he refused to recognize from inspiring English sources

When he refused to recognize a teenage daughter born out of wedlock, there were calls for his ouster.

During his term he refused to recognize Anastasio Somoza's Nicaragua, Francisco Franco's Spain, and Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic.

He refused to recognize the reforms and privileges made since 1152, and the archbishop and most of the bishops went into exile; Sverrir was excommunicated.

First put before a court-martial, he refused to recognize its competence and insisted on his right as a peer to be tried by the upper chamber.

When Great Britain refused his conditions, he declared war, but, at the same time, he refused to recognize the United States's independence.

Of course, Adenauer could not ignore the emotional issue of German reunification, and thus he refused to recognize the East German regime or Polish control of the lands east of the Oder-Neisse rivers.

When he found his biological mother, by then in a retirement home, she refused to recognize him.

Because he refuses to recognize the existence of the federal government.

He has refused to recognize the new government, has rebuffed calls to return home and continues to operate at the United Nations even though his budget has been frozen.

He at once refused to recognize the legality of the court because "a king cannot be tried by any superior jurisdiction on earth".

In theory it was pernicious, he argued, because it refused to recognize slavery as a moral wrong.