Sentence examples for needs to refuse from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

We need to refuse to vote on electronic voting machines without a voter-verifiable paper ballot, and to continue to pressure our legislatures to implement voting technology that works.

We need to refuse to stay complicit and refuse to stay passive when we hear it.