Sentence examples for refuse recognition from inspiring English sources

Would they be allowed to refuse recognition in other cases?

A statement from Mr. Kerry campaign's said he had voted against the legislation, which permits states to refuse recognition of gay marriages performed in other states, because he believed it was "unnecessarily divisive".

Ms. Brilmayer said there had not been a single case of a state being put in that position, noting that states had long been able to refuse recognition of marriages between cousins and even recently divorced individuals.

This distinction fails to explain why it may be more embarrassing to refuse recognition to an extraterritorial confiscatory law directed at nationals of the confiscating state than it would be to refuse effect to a territorial confiscatory law.

Several EU nations are expected to refuse recognition of that independence, reviving painful memories of European disunity over the break up of Yugoslavia.Mr Rehn said previous empires and unions had been forged with the power of "cannons and armies".

At present the 1996 "Defence of Marriage Act", signed by Bill Clinton, denies federal recognition to any state-approved gay marriages, and allows states to refuse recognition to other states' gay marriages as well.

But countries including Russia and Spain have refused recognition, fearing separatist movements in their own territories.

Pinckney was appointed minister to France (1796) but was refused recognition by the French Directory and left Paris for Amsterdam.

The Confederates could not forgive Britain for refusing recognition; the North could not forgive the unofficial help Britain gave the South.

The United States was the main holdout, refusing recognition on the grounds that the communist regime routinely violated accepted norms of international behaviour.

Abbas refused recognition, Israel resumed building, and both sides were given political cover as the first round of Obama-era talks collapsed around them.