Sentence examples for refusal to yield from inspiring English sources
The "insistent question mark" denotes one family member's refusal to yield to a willed silence.
He seemed to live on from sheer stubborn refusal to yield the floor.
Call it admirable resilience or hardened indifference, it is a refusal to yield the right of way to an adversary.
I've always given him high marks in self-control for his refusal to yield to pure terror in that instant.
All because they REVOKED Jim Acosta's press badge after his continuous grandstanding and inappropriate refusal to yield to other reporters.
Her supporters would say No; her refusal to yield – after the 1984 Brighton bombing, say – was necessary.
Boehner refused to yield.
It was his spiky bowling, taking five for 35, that was at the very heart of England's brave victory over Australia, epitomising his side's refusal ever to yield the fight in defending a modest total of 259.
The eye sees first the astounding ferocity of the contests, the refusal of each fighter to yield, the skill, the ringcraft, the sense that each man was fighting for his life as much as his livelihood.
Boswell had been to visit David Hume under these conditions, because he had been reluctant to believe that the stoicism of the old philosopher would hold up, and as a result we have one excellent account of the refusal of the intelligence to yield to such moral blackmail.
