Sentence examples for refusal to elect from inspiring English sources
The Electoral Diet at Regensburg (July August 1630) threatened the emperor with the combined opposition of the Catholic and Protestant princes under French leadership and with refusal to elect his son Ferdinand III as king of the Romans unless Wallenstein was dismissed and the army virtually disbanded.
The postmortem offered by the media was that the movement's inability to formulate tangible goals, its lack of demands, its steadfast adherence to the principles of "non-hierarchy," its refusal to elect or bow to a leadership, its unwillingness to embrace the traditional system of interest-group politics—all resulted in its self-destruction.
Mr Grillo was at least a fresh face with a healthy distrust of la casta; but his refusal to help elect a president or to support any coalition government, and his attacks on the concept of representative democracy, suggest he is not the answer for those who want the political and economic reforms that Italy needs.If technocracy cannot produce a durable government, and democracy hasn't, what now?
It requires 266 to elect.
He's motivated by the left's "refusal to accept legitimately elected leaders".
But she defended the American refusal to recognize the earlier, elected, Hamas-led government.
Still, our elected officials' refusal to discuss higher taxes may overstate our aversion.
Dixon won nine votes, despite his polite refusal to serve should he be elected.
At the time voters appreciated her refusal to sugar-coat the facts, and elected her accordingly.Sceptics had warned that Texas would be last into the recession but last out.
And this just highlights the absurdity and the danger of the president-elect's refusal to put his assets in a true blind trust".
Indeed, it was their refusal to relinquish power — just 35 percent of voters elected half the state legislators nationwide as recently as the 1960s — that led the Supreme Court to intervene with a series of rulings beginning that decade that transformed redistricting.
