When Ibrahim finally managed to get him to a local hospital after being refused a taxi on account of the blood, DuCorais was refused treatment for his injuries by Moroccan doctors and the pair were both ejected.
Boutros-Ghali, both on principle and on account of his proud temperament, refused to bow to the whims of Washington.
17 July 1923: The genius of Henry Ford The visionary industrialist who made cars affordable to the American middle classes talked about assembly lines, mass production and said no one applying to join his labour force is refused on account of their physical condition.
It may not be refused on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, but it does not follow from mere citizenship of the United States.
It was designed to signify Ali's persecution following his refusal to join the US Army for the Vietnam war (he refused on account of his Muslim faith).
He refused on account of her gender.
The office he sought was that of Lord Privy Seal, a position Gladstone refused on account of Rosebery's inexperience in Government.
After he refused, on account of his religious calling, he was borne off against his will to the battlefield.
In Alexandria, Virginia where I live, the public library was the site of a 1939 sit-in predating the Civil Rights Movement, when five young African-Americans who had been refused library cards on account of their race sat down with books in the reading room and refused to leave.
(In addition, the statute retained language providing that "[n]o trademark by which the goods of the applicant may be distinguished from the goods of others shall be refused registration... on account of its nature" (except for certain specified reasons not relevant here).
One unusually explicit example of this is a letter sent by 'A mother of three' to a newspaper in suburban Kent in 1909, complaining that: I have lately applied to five different landlords for a cottage, and each have refused me on account of my children.
