Sentence examples for refuse representation from inspiring English sources

It almost seemed after reading the Times story that unless the crime was truly horrific she might decline the representation or she might refuse representation of the truly "innocent" client, or clients charged with run-of-the-mill criminality.

He refused representation and can't really be said to have defended himself.

It's possible to refuse that representation of yourself.

The men's families, mainly subsistence farmers in rural areas where everyone knows everyone else, refused legal representation because they preferred to negotiate with the judge, said Aken'Ova.

Habré had refused legal representation, saying he did not recognise the court's jurisdiction, and vowed not to cooperate with the trial.

He had refused legal representation and said he did not recognise the jurisdiction of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), a special international criminal tribunal set up in Senegal by the African Union.

Since his arrest, Lim had refused legal representation.

Women to women, we learned from the Alliance of Parliamentary Women how the women in government, regardless of party representation, refuse to let political differences drive a wedge in their own consensus-building.

Now, as a proud gay man willing to expose his love of some "chick flick" 15 years later, I refuse to accept these representations because "Legally Blonde" and its audience deserve so much better. .

Taken to court when she refused taxation without representation, she was saved from penury by her suffragette sisters.

At the same time paintings like "City Dog Walker at Night" place Ms. Lee in the company of female painters like Loren MacIver and Biala who, like her, refuse to choose between abstraction and representation.