Sentence examples for refused as a from inspiring English sources

But others have refused as a protest, even if they speak Estonian.

When Mr. Dal Monte worked at Del Posto, he refused, as a proud Roman, to touch it with anything green.

Although his life was in jeopardy, Louaillier refused, as a matter of principle, to answer the charges except by objecting to the court's jurisdiction.

He refused as a child to speak Persian, and as a teenager was, in his mother's words, "more American than the Americans".

He was attracted to acting from an early age and his political activism was evident when in 1948 he refused, as a conscientious objector, to do National Service.

As he revealed in 2006, he was called up to the Waffen-SS (the elite military wing of the Nazi Party) at age 17, two years after he had been refused as a volunteer for submarine duty.

But the transition concept has been refused as an external criterion in the guidelines [ 1].

That's why I refuse, as a justice, to give a helping hand to blacks.

Who then – bring on a crescendo of notes – refuse, as a gesture of defiance, to set one.

In April 1942 Terry-Thomas received his call-up papers; he later wrote that "it would have seemed rather rude and ungrateful to refuse"; as a result, he left ENSA and reported to the Royal Corps of Signals training depot in Ossett, West Yorkshire.

Her husband alleged doctors refused as there was a foetal heartbeat and because Ireland "is a Catholic country".