Sentence examples for refusal to serve from inspiring English sources

Their doctrine of political neutrality and their refusal to serve in the military has led to imprisonment of members who refused conscription during World War II and at other times where national service has been compulsory.

Refusal to serve would have meant being shot.

The prosecutor's real attack, though, was on Thomas's refusal to serve in the Army.

Sainsbury's apologised for their employee's grumpy refusal to serve a paying customer?

He is not allowed to leave Iran because of his refusal to serve in the military.

Other signs of racism prevail: employment ads with "No Roma Need Apply" signs, and restaurants' refusal to serve Roma customers.

The amount of AWOLS and refusals to serve are unprecedented in our history as a nation as well as are refusals to carry out orders that involve firing on targets where civilians may be harmed.

In his appointments Corbyn is also getting stick for the lack of women at the top table (as on the podium at Saturday's special conference) which is a careless unforced error despite those refusals to serve.

Sincere, heartfelt moral convictions, like those invoked recently by businesses to justify limitations on employee health benefits or refusals to serve same-sex couples (a practice rejected by the New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday), cannot be used to undermine our longstanding commitment to fairness in employment and the marketplace.

Just last month, the security chiefs repeated their refusal ever to serve under him, saying that they were ready to "do anything" to ensure Mr Mugabe remained in power.

It is not clear that Mr. Pataki would be hurt politically by a continued refusal to pledge to serve his entire term.