Sentence examples for refused efforts from inspiring English sources

But the United States Supreme Court has refused efforts to legalize marijuana as a medical treatment.

But its lenders have so far refused efforts to eliminate most — if not all — of the $7 billion owed to them.

Master Sergeant Travis E. Watkins, still alive in his paralyzed condition, refused efforts of evacuation, saying that he did not want to be a burden to those who had a chance to get away.

French officials, however, said the group had never offered more than vague demands and refused all efforts to negotiate.

One local tribal leader, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisals, said the militants had refused all efforts by local tribesmen to persuade them to leave the town peacefully.

Khartoum has refused repeated efforts to establish a 20,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in the province, and on Thursday it rejected the most recent UN proposal to send in troops.

And although that application was refused, new efforts are under way.

From that moment, according to Ali, Roose refused all efforts to compromise.

In this first meeting with Derek and his mom, the teen was cloaked in a hoodie and refused my efforts to engage in conversation.

Before his execution, Turpin frequently received visitors (the gaoler was reputed to have earned £100 from selling drinks to Turpin and his guests), although he refused the efforts of a local clergyman who offered him "serious remonstrances and admonitions".

For two years, as the House ethics panel investigated 12 charges against him -- 11 of which he was found guilty of -- Rangel refused all efforts at settlement, while disputing every charge (all of which were decided against him with no serious factual challenges, as a result of which he will be censured on the floor of the House).