Sentence examples for refused audience from inspiring English sources

Armed with their testimonials, he sought to confront Bentinck but was refused audience.

Rule 46 of the court's procedural rules (pdf) states that "A chamber may, after a warning, impose sanctions against or refuse audience to a counsel if, in its opinion, his conduct remains offensive or abusive, obstructs the proceedings, or is otherwise contrary to the interests of justice".

In 1975 Alexander Solzhentitsyn was refused an audience with the American president at the White House.

Both embassies were refused an audience with the shogun (the Dutch failure being variously attributed to Nuyts's "haughty demeanour and the antics of his travel companions" and "Hamada's machinations at the court" ).

Headland has comic smarts enough to venture both filthily revisionist readings of My So-Called Life and riffs on the Potsdam conference, while refusing her audience any comforting safety nets.

For "The Ladies Who Lunch," a great number that will always be owned by Elaine Stritch, and is sung well enough here by Barbara Walsh, Doyle avoids both invidious comparison and showstopping expectation by strategically running the song directly into the ensuing dialogue, thus refusing the audience a chance to respond.

She and the rest of the audience refused to leave, as encores led to encores.

When Kazan received an honorary Oscar in 1999, many in the audience refused to clap.