Sentence examples for in refusing to back from inspiring English sources

Britain's top official on Northern Ireland, Peter Mandelson, is right in refusing to back down on the planned name change.

Ed Miliband has looked out of touch in refusing to back an EU referendum and by not having a cohesive alternative to counter financial austerity.

"I think they made an error of judgement in refusing to back me and they probably, in retrospect, made an error of judgment in taking his money".

Though he made no mention of Solyndra, the bankrupt solar company that benefited from a government loan program, or Keystone XL, the controversial oil pipeline he rejected to much celebration and criticism last week, the president showed political backbone in refusing to back down from his commitment to investing in developing renewables.

WASHINGTON — For the past year, China has adopted an increasingly muscular position toward the United States, berating American officials for the global economic crisis, stage-managing President Obama's visit to China in November, refusing to back a tougher climate change agreement in Copenhagen and standing fast against American demands for tough new Security Council sanctions against Iran.

The same officials arrested Mr Magnitsky, who died in prison in 2009 after refusing to back down.

For instance, you have Princeton professor Robert P George, perhaps the most noted intellectual defender of social conservatism in the country, refusing to back Trump, even as he says he can't back Clinton either.

Demonstrations spread across the country in response, with Syrian citizens refusing to back down.

Deepening political uncertainty in Dublin, with opposition parties refusing to back a jaded and unpopular government's austerity plans, and growing concern about the ever rising-liabilities of state-guaranteed Irish banks also played a role.

In fact, for the first time in 25 years, The Charlotte Observer is refusing to back the Republican politician for re-election.

Photograph: JOHN KOLESIDIS/REUTERS Greece's government is refusing to back down in the face of public anger today.