Sentence examples for point of refuse from inspiring English sources

JUST off Mount Pleasant Avenue in Dover, opposite the Rockaway Townsquare Mall, there is a place now being transformed into a point of refuge for business travelers — after more than 30 years spent as a point of refuse.

But one Sinn Fein minister made a point of refusing to hoist this symbol of British rule.

Nor does Strand trust anyone, even to the point of refusing sleep.

As Beck's new album, "Sea Change," demonstrates, he is making a point of refusing to choose.

Her parents paid for boarding school – Cheltenham Ladies Collegee – but made a point of refusing to support her after that.

During the transition, he ignored Truman to the point of refusing Truman's invitation for a pre-Christmas White House lunch.

What is the point of refusing to even countenance someone who is now so influential over all our lives?

During World War II, Gen. George C. Marshall, the country's highest-ranking officer, was so determined to stay out of politics that he made a point of refusing to laugh at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's jokes.

Or make a point of refusing to sign a sales contract that says that the sale is conditioned upon financing approval, a consumer tactic that the dealers association endorses.

A Hamas militant who worked closely with him, and who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Dujana, described him as "extraordinarily religious, to the point of refusing to do things that are normal, like watching an unveiled anchorwoman on television".

Reared as a passionate Catholic nationalist, yet he was educated mainly in the schools of the Protestant ascendancy, matriculating at Trinity College, Dublin, where he made a point of refusing to stand for "God Save the King".