Sentence examples for in refusing to permit from inspiring English sources

Whereupon certain members on the Ministerial side thought fit that they should be gagged; and persevered, with something very like stupidity, in refusing to permit the adjournment.

In refusing to permit the bill to be debated or voted on, Ayatollah Khamenei took the exceptional action of circumventing the normal institutional checks on legislative power.

Yesterday the court admirably fulfilled that mission in refusing to permit organized student-led prayers before public high school football games.

He spoke for the court in refusing to permit a state court to enforce a private agreement ("restrictive covenant") to sell real property to white persons only (Shelley v. Kraemer, 1948).

* The RCUK and Finch Group agree (see Section 5) that funders offering to pay for gold OA are justified in refusing to permit embargoes on green OA longer than six months in the natural sciences, or longer than 12 months the social sciences and humanities.

The case to be argued Monday is an appeal from a ruling on Friday by a state trial judge that Ms. Harris, the state's top election official, acted within her lawful discretion in refusing to permit three counties that were conducting or planning to conduct manual recounts to submit amended election returns after the Nov. 14 statutory deadline.

A joint federal and state law enforcement effort investigating the MS-13 gang had pushed a district court to hold the social networking giant in contempt of court for refusing to permit real-time listening in on voice calls.

Ms. Miller, who is not related to the pastor, had won support in conservative Christian circles for refusing to permit court-mandated visits with Isabella by her other legal mother, Janet Jenkins, Ms. Miller's former partner in a civil union in Vermont.

During Operation Desert Fox — the Clinton Administration's four-day campaign, in December , 1998 to punish Saddam Hussein for refusing to permit U.N. weapons inspections — more than six hundred bombs and four hundred missiles struck Iraqi military targets.

Mr Rajoy is refusing to permit that (though all eyes will be on Scotland's independence vote, also in September).

True, prosecutors suffered a major setback when Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Federal District Court in Manhattan refused to permit the testimony of the only witness who could connect Mr. Ghailani to the explosives used in the bombings.