Sentence examples for initially refuses from inspiring English sources
He hands one to Mr. Morrison, who initially refuses to take it.
He initially refuses but, after some sub-Karate Kid persuasion, performs a rather convenient U-turn.
But like her guests Cassandra doesn't believe that Marci could have scored a real-life, flesh-and-blood boyfriend, so she initially refuses to provide the intel that Marci seeks.
When one obese man, or what Southwest calls a customer of size, or a COS, initially refuses to pay for an extra seat, he is made to understand how he must do so for his own comfort.
The WASP soldier Cable, who initially refuses to marry his native sweetheart, Liat, also decides to stay with her on their island rather than returning to America at the end of the war; the Japanese conveniently kill him before he can miscegenate.
Stroy initially refused, unwilling to give up the initial dream of revolutionizing medicine for bipeds.
Big shippers initially refused.
Kershaw initially refused the sergeant's request.
After initially refusing, the I.T.F. is budging.
