Sentence examples for refuse to cede from inspiring English sources

Guests who refuse to cede the microphone win.

It is still just possible, some people reckon, that the journalists will refuse to cede power, forcing the group to seek bankruptcy protection.

Now, he argues, if the Palestinians fail here, Israel will point to the example and refuse to cede more of the West Bank.

Berlioz, in his 1843 "Treatise on Instrumentation," wrote that organ and orchestra exhibit a "secret antipathy," resembling rival potentates who refuse to cede ground to each other: "One is Emperor, the other Pope; their mission is not the same".

The incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo, continued to refuse to cede power, despite having finished well behind the winning candidate, Alassane Ouattara, a former prime minister, in the count of the country's top election official, as well as that of the United Nations and of independent observers like the Carter Center and the European Union.

There are younger stars who have their sort of dominance on their mind — Lil Wayne and Drake primarily — but the landscape they have to navigate doesn't favor the lengthy reigns of old, especially when the entrenched powers refuse to cede any ground.

But each time he refused to cede control.

Americans refused to cede the discussion to the N.R.A. and other gun interests.

He resumed contact with the French when the Spaniards refused to cede the Valtellina.

All failed, largely because the emperor refused to cede any territories to Italy.

But Frederick refused to cede it, and his old alliance with Henry came to an end.