Sentence examples for need to refuse from inspiring English sources

To do that, we need to refuse all the meaningless plastic and tin destined for landfills.

But artists do need to refuse things in order to survive, and even thrive.

Public and private insurers might need to refuse coverage for high-cost care that adds little value.

Young people should be given the emotional tools they need to refuse peer pressure and to resist the urge to do things simply because 'everyone' else is.

His presence in the airports of Moscow or Havana, or in government housing in Caracas, will give American lawmakers the excuse they need to refuse any changes in the laws that have allowed domestic surveillance to go off the rails.

Data about people with anti-social behaviour orders or banning orders is fed into the scanners by police, providing staff with the information they need to refuse entry.

Leslie Brisman New Haven, March 15 , 2010To the Editor: In "Driving Drunk in Jerusalem" (column, March 14), Thomas L. Friedman argues convincingly that "Israel needs a wake-up call" and that the United States needs to refuse to be pushed around by its dependent ally.

The city reasoned that Con Edison was just as loath to see power cut from the city as the administration was, and that a court order would give Con Ed the ammunition it needed to refuse the orders of the Independent System Operator, the two officials said.

Ball later said his anger when writing the first draft had blinded him to the idea that Lester needed to refuse sex with Angela to complete his emotional journey to achieve redemption.

August 2010: Writing for Fox News, Christian Wilton suggests that a GOP-controlled Congress needs to "refuse to appropriate money required for federal agencies to implement Obamacare, buying time to offer a Republican alternative".

Among the many statements of Bourgeois is one that runs: "If your need is to refuse to abandon the past, you have to recreate it.