Sentence examples for refuse to regard from inspiring English sources

Electoral fundamentalists refuse to regard elections as a means of taking part in democracy, seeing them instead as an end in themselves, as a doctrine with an intrinsic, inalienable value.

Neither man is engaged in politics although both have an acute sense of the country's past and present; both, in their different ways, wrestle with the fundamental questions of life and death which have always been at the core of Russian drama.Both men refuse to regard theatre as entertainment.

After continuing to refuse to regard himself as a soldier, his long imprisonment as an absolutist conscientious objector (CO) began - it was 1916.

Although numerous migrants have been settling in Chinese cities for years, they still refuse to regard themselves as citizens, considering themselves instead as on the margin of citizenship or even as peasants.

This is in itself a new departure, as is Hamas' decision to refuse to regard Egypt as a negotiator.

He refused to regard "the humorous, the moralistic, and the sad" as separate values.

When we talked, Carlsen refused to regard his exploit in epic light.

Until now, like neighbouring Switzerland, it has refused to regard tax evasion by foreigners as a crime.

My various children had grown up, my wife was getting bored and my insurance company had refused to regard me as dead, so the family fortuneswere low.

"Rehab" was not the first song to confront addiction, but it was certainly unusual in refusing to regard addiction in a completely negative light.

Only Tony Blair's government tried to diminish the suffering of the Armenians when it refused to regard the outrages as an act of genocide and tried to exclude survivors from commemorating their dead during Holocaust ceremonies in London.