Sentence examples for refusal to modify from inspiring English sources

But I believe that there is a simple explanation for his refusal to modify his policies.

Their biggest hurdle will be overcoming Russia's current refusal to modify the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to permit limited national missile defenses.

The refusal to modify her aspect, her habits, her attitudes was her strategy for resisting American culture, for fighting it, for maintaining her identity.

This definition of the fetus as alive, which is unequivocally anti-abortion, showed the depths of his pro-life belief and the nonpolitical reason for his refusal to modify the G.O.P.'s extreme anti-abortion platform plank.

Until his old age, he yearned for the role in public service to which his brilliance and vision should have propelled him, but that was always denied him by his refusal to modify his perfectionism.

The announcement on Feb. 9, by the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said the provisions of a new Cambodian law to set up a tribunal, and the government's refusal to modify it, made it impossible to hold a trial that would meet international standards of justice.

These "mistakes," the report concluded, "stem from the refusal... to modify [the Park's scientists'] intuitive, but statistically and scientifically unproven, belief that DBOC mariculture activities... .. disturb harbor seals in Drakes Estero.

In the face of court cases challenging its secrecy, the government has started to modify its traditional refusal to say anything about its nuclear arms programs.

The Idists were frustrated at the refusal of the growing Esperanto movement to modify any of Zamenhof's basic rules.

The filing of this notice comes after Reckitt Benckiser's (maker of d-Con) refusal to comply with the EPA's request to modify their packaging so that exposure to small children would be eliminated.

Most want to modify it".