Sentence examples for officials refusal from inspiring English sources

Still, our elected officials' refusal to discuss higher taxes may overstate our aversion.

The banks say that a chief stumbling block to continued expansion in the United States has been Canadian officials' refusal to allow them to grow any bigger at home through mergers or acquisitions.

Behind the scenes, however, he is scathing about Treasury officials' refusal to pursue value for money in detail, or to empower the Cabinet Office to bang heads together and take really big bites out of Whitehall's cost base.

Three Jewish inmates at Rikers Island have filed a federal lawsuit saying their constitutional rights were violated by prison officials' refusal to provide them a vegan diet, which the inmates say is required by their religious beliefs.

But investigators say that amassing evidence takes time and that they are also being slowed by Yemeni officials' refusal to let Americans question scores of people detained so far.

Ironically, the most attention the protest received (despite it being the largest mass hunger strike in history) was due to a judge approving prison officials' request to force-feed "unresponsive" protesters – an intervention largely necessary because of officials' refusal to provide strikers with liquids beyond water or prescribed medication.

We talk about the protests, about the shameful official refusal to allow Chileans abroad to vote in elections.

"The Nauru government's official refusal of my request for a visa to visit the Nauru detention centre confirms that the Australian government has much to hide," the member for Denison said.

In what might be a sign that Tokyo could soon move to reduce tensions, Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported on Wednesday that the Japanese government may ease back from its official refusal to recognize that a territorial dispute even exists, a stance that has long angered Chinese officials.

Some Muslim groups have long criticized the Tablighi Jamaat for its official refusal to take a stand on the causes that have inflamed the Muslim world, from the Afghan holy war against the Soviet Union in the 1980's to the more recent wars over Kashmir, Chechnya and Bosnia.

4. (SBU) The best case scenario XXXXXXXXXXXX foresees is that China responds to Google's official refusal to take down the link by issuing an order warning against further non-compliance.