Sentence examples for refuse to authorise from inspiring English sources

Worse, when the certificate comes due in 2002, the computer will assume that it matured a century earlier, and might refuse to authorise the return of the customer's money.Fixing this particular problem seemed simple.

There are members of Congress who decry mismanagement in Treasury programmes, but hold up appointments for top staff and refuse to authorise new tools or provide new funding for a different strategy.

In June the IMF refused to authorise a planned loan of $475m.

When he left the firm acrimoniously in October 2008, he refused to authorise further payments of commission, amounting to £4.3 million.

He says Callcredit contacted NatWest twice, but on both occasions the bank refused to authorise the removal of the address.

And a week ago, Barcelona refused to authorise the unfurling of a banner that declared Catalonia Europe's next state.

In February the EU parliament refused to authorise further transfers of information to Washington until privacy concerns had been properly addressed by the US.

His widow (and executor), Valerie Eliot, refused to authorise any biographies; the poet's reputation became tarnished with accusations of anti-Semitism.

Vasili Arkhipov, the second-in-command, refused to authorise the use of nuclear weapons, and the vote to do so had to be unanimous.

The following year, May refused to authorise their use by any police force in England and Wales, in what was seen as a snub to Johnson.

He has further ire for the state governor, who refused to authorise snipers to shoot Nascimento when he was leaning out of the bus window.