Sentence examples for refuse to exercise from inspiring English sources

Andree thinks they can beat it; Hester, knowing better, attempts to sign over her pension benefits to her partner, so Andree can keep their house after she's gone, only to have the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders refuse to exercise their right to extend her pension to her domestic partner.

Similarly, some other irresponsible Americans eat massive quantities of junk food, refuse to exercise and then demand that someone else pay for their health care.

Yet in cases like al-Aulaqi there is no accountability so long as the government is careful to assert arguments which offer a constitutional justification for targeted killings -- that the person posed an imminent threat which could be dealt with no other way -- and the courts refuse to exercise oversight.

In a 2001 paper, John Searle states that even a determinist must act on the supposition of freedom; his argument is that a determinist in a restaurant would not be able to refuse to exercise his or her free will.

"But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis".

Under the section, the Minister had power to direct that a complaint be considered by the Committee of Investigation but he refused to exercise the statutory power and provided no reasons for his refusal.

He stubbornly refused to exercise.

It was refusing to exercise judgment.

The corrupt and under-staffed government refuses to exercise its responsibility.

However, psychiatric reports from the time suggested he was fearful of his fellow inmates and refused to exercise with them.

Still, on August 3, 1927, the governor refused to exercise his power of clemency; his advisory committee agreed with this stand.