Sentence examples for refuse to contribute from inspiring English sources

If a 'ride' costs £10 and I contribute only 50p, my ride is not literally free but, nevertheless, by shirking part of the necessary contribution I may be committing an injustice – as are those who refuse to contribute what is necessary to maintain the institution of research, even if they have paid something towards it in some form.

Personally, I refuse to contribute to the military divorce rate.

And we can more than match whatever the CEOs and billionaires refuse to contribute.

Companies that depend on state largesse and yet refuse to contribute are, well, scroungers.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte said his country would refuse to contribute any further aid to Greece.

But we refuse to contribute to the international security force because of our dread of another Somalia scenario.

Some of the east Europeans, led by Poland, which balked at being asked to pay up, are refusing to contribute and Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Swedish prime minister, admitted that European contributions to the fund would be "voluntary", meaning they may not be made at all.

Britain refused to contribute, on those grounds.

Partly for that reason, Mr. Gutierrez initially refused to contribute to Mr. Poindexter's book.

And former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who controlled the government from 1982 to 1998, adamantly refused to contribute any public money to the workers.

Many of the officers later said they had been fired for refusing to contribute to the Democratic governor.