Sentence examples for implicit refusals from inspiring English sources

Of the remaining 398 intervention arm and 387 control practices, 42 and 40, respectively, explicitly refused to participate, while 85 and 45, respectively had not responded after being allowed at least one year to consider taking part (and can be considered as implicit refusals, generated by the way the study was carried out).

Mull Historical Society was a communal ideal as much as a band, an implicit refusal of Thatcher's disbelief in "society".

This implicit refusal to grant sensory information and affective processing the power to catalyze and inform serious reflection is not new; neither is the attribution of popular landscape aesthetics to the elite society of a limited culture and historical period surprising, given the current preponderance of post-modernist sensibilities.

If a questionnaire was ultimately not returned then this was considered as an implicit refusal.

Yet he refrained from more than implicit criticism of China for its refusal to respect these.

This study evaluated the roles of drink refusal self-efficacy (DRSE), implicit drinking identity, and self-awareness in drinking.

But the refusal to deal at all, implicit in General Yaalon's perception of the Palestinians as an enemy only to be flattened, leads directly to an open-ended war of attrition.

(Bechdel's theme was her mother's refusal to touch her. Helen's implicit comment was apparently "No comment").

"It was not a failure in courage on his [my father's] part, for certain… It had instead to do with an unwillingness to condescend to being offended, a refusal to acknowledge the hurt caused by the insult implicit in Arthur's remark – that it is always noteworthy when Jews behave well".

More might be called a moderate conciliarist; and though his refusal to swear the oath of succession arose from its implicit repudiation of the pope's power of dispensation, he saw that power as deriving from the church as the whole people of God.

He argued that a refusal to outlaw cruelty toward U.S.-held terrorist suspects was an implicit invitation to abuse.