Sentence examples for it turned away from inspiring English sources

For instance, one sperm bank in Israel says that when it opened its doors 1991, it turned away about a third of the applicants for low quality.

From the late nineteen-nineties onward, the Fed stubbornly refused to recognize that speculative bubbles encourage the spread of rationally irrational behavior; convinced that the market was a self-regulating mechanism, it turned away from its traditional role, which is — in the words of a former Fed chairman, William McChesney Martin — "to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going".

From the late nineteen-nineties onward, the Fed stubbornly refused to recognize that speculative bubbles encourage the spread of rationally irrational behavior; convinced that the market was a self-regulating mechanism, it turned away from its traditional role, which is in the words of a former Fed chairman, William McChesney Martin—"to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going".

It turned away and dropped its bombs over a wide area.

Each ant could also sweep the air with its antennas; if it made contact with another ant, it turned away and slowed down to avoid a collision.

From the administration's first days, it turned away from internationalism and the concerns of its European allies by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdrawing America's signature from the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court.

The hotel continues to pride itself as much on the famous types it turns away as on its famous guests.

The school is so selective that it turns away more than 90percentt of its applicants each year.

But as a private company, it turns away questions about how much profit it earns on its library management deals. .

But a selective school is not a hospital, and those it turns away are not sick.

It turns away many of the poorest would-be migrants, which is hard to justify in humanitarian terms.