Sentence examples for refusal to start from inspiring English sources

11 because of the Irish Republican Army's refusal to start disarming.

The statement made no mention of the I.R.A.'s refusal to start disarming, the reason cited for the shutdown of the home-rule administration.

In the last slanted softening of late afternoon light, against the squealy repeated note of one small insect's cheep, under the bird-haunted acacia tree towering over the bare trampled compound, and near Camillo's derelict-looking car, dirt footprints on its doors — Camillo had been kicking it barefoot in fury for its refusal to start — an old woman approached through the sunlit risen dust.

Mr. Trimble is under attack from the increasing numbers of hard-line members of his party who believe that the I.R.A. refusal to start shedding its weapons is proof that the organization is not committed to peace and is simply using its continuing armed state to extract concessions from Dublin and London.

Patient refusal to initiate the recommended antihormonal medication and non-adherence to therapy (defined as a composite of compliance and persistence: the patient started therapy, but discontinued the planned treatment) are important, but are not the only contributors.

The increasingly hard-line Ulster Unionists are putting pressure on their leader, David Trimble, to pull out of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the power-sharing home rule legislature that he heads as first minister, to protest the refusal of the I.R.A. to start disarming.

The grant comes with no strings; Mr. Thiel doesn't even get first refusal rights to invest if fellows are raising money to start a company.

The main issue was the union's refusal to accept the company's proposal for workers to start contributing money toward their health coverage.

Addressing the Palestinians' steadfast refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is a good place to start.

He also wanted the troops to start leaving by July 2011.Was this a brilliant compromise or a refusal to take a hard decision?

By their refusal to give way to Hitler over Danzig, they did as much as any nation to start the destruction of German Naziism.