Sentence examples for refusals to send from inspiring English sources

The military campaign was severely hampered by Elizabeth's repeated refusals to send promised funds for her starving soldiers.

During the 1960s there was speculation that Prime Minister Harold Wilson's continual refusals to send British troops to Vietnam, even as a token force, and despite President Lyndon B. Johnson's persistent requests, were in part due to the American opposition to the Suez war years earlier.

Johnson was greatly hurt by Wilson's refusal to send as much as a Guards band to Vietnam.

The bitterest disappointment for London and Paris, Ms. Cowling said, was the Modern's refusal to send "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" to them.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's refusal to send more UN staff members into such an insecure environment greatly frustrated the administration of U.S. Pres.

Lebanon's refusal to send troops to patrol the border with Israel, leaving the job to peacekeepers, creates tensions and uncertainties.

Refusal to send through the mail can be a sign of fraud by people trying to avoid mail-fraud statutes, he said.

But it is working behind the scenes, and issuing reminders of its historic friendship for Iraq and its refusal to send troops there.

Faced with 12,000 applicants for 1,200 freshman slots, the United States Naval Academy was blunt about its refusal to send a California high school senior an admissions application.

Then there is Mr. Cullerton's refusal to send Mr. Quinn the bill until they reach a compromise, out of fear that Mr. Quinn might demonstrate his relevance by vetoing it outright.

Equality watchdogs have warned that disabled people face growing barriers in the workplace after a senior diplomat lost her discrimination claim against a Foreign Office refusal to send her abroad on the grounds her deafness made the posting too expensive.