Sentence examples for refuse by from inspiring English sources

I Refuse, by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett (Graywolf).

Young had good reason to refuse: By the time of the Army's re-enlistment request, Congress had rejected another of Utah's regular and futile appeals for statehood.

The Palestinian Authority should make Israel an offer it can't refuse by leapfrogging the logjam and declaring publicly that it is prepared to accept the outlines of the deal that successive Israeli governments have put on the table.

The latest trash-related shouting match involves plans to ship New York's refuse by barge to a new transfer station in Linden, then cram it onto astonishingly long trains and send them barreling through the heart of the state.

There was a horrible, almost sensual excitement in Audiard's prison-gangster thriller, about a terrified Arab-Muslim called Malik (played by newcomer Tahar Rahim), just admitted to prison, who is made an offer he can't refuse by Corsican gang-boss César (played by Niels Arestrup – who viewers may remember from Audiard's last film, The Beat That My Heart Skipped).

FAT OF THE LAND: Garbage in New York the Last Two Hundred Years By Benjamin Miller Four Walls Eight Windows ($18, paperback) Although hauling refuse by train should have been cheaper than the Street-Cleaning Department's old methods, the cost of waste disposal in Brooklyn after four years under the contract was ten times higher than it had been before.

Help was refused by Pres.

The offer was refused by the protesters.

This money was sometimes refused by beggars.

Gailhaguet said the application was twice refused by French authorities.

Extradition refused by Britain in 2005 Magomed Uspayev Chechen activist.