Sentence examples for refuse to be held from inspiring English sources

No one elected these companies and they refuse to be held accountable.

The Qatari authorities say they remain committed to delivering meaningful reform but that it will take time, and they refuse to be held to a specific timetable.

Jacksonville, Florida opened a new container terminal in 2009; traffic from Asia is already booming, even before the new-look Panama canal opens".We refuse to be held hostage forever," says Shelly Boshart Davis, vice-president of a straw exporter in Oregon that uses West Coast ports to ship its hay to hungry cows in South Korea and Japan.

They'll say they're not negotiating over the debt ceiling, and in the end, they may well refuse to be held hostage over the debt ceiling, but the debt ceiling will be part of the pressure Republicans use to force the next deal.

Here's my issue: It's not so much that your service sucks, it's that you refuse to be held accountable for it sucking, and rarely, if ever, do anything about it.

Issa is optimistic, however, that the tech community could wield its considerable political power to force Congress to separately pass high skilled immigration reform, by declaring that "'As a tech community, I refuse to be held hostage to endorsing what we need, that has nothing to do with these other problems.'".

Mr. Brauchli refuses to be held hostage to the past.

They are not merely refusing to be held accountable but are saying that no one will account for the violence.

He refused to be held to deadlines, saying he would release his compositions when he felt they were ready.

She refused to be held down a year and is now doing very well after home tuition.

But he said Swiss rules and HSBC's decentralised structure obscured what was going on at the business, and he refused to be held personally accountable.