Sentence examples for refused on grounds from inspiring English sources

The FOI request was refused on grounds of privacy and excessive cost.

Ms. Reno refused on grounds that evidence was insufficient to put the independent counsel law into effect.

Seventeen forces refused on grounds of cost but a further nine claimed disclosure would involve a "risk of undermining national security".

Her government ran a lottery for would-be pilgrims to Kailas, she said, and many were refused on grounds of health.

Taimoor Shah, who translates for The Times, reported that Ali had refused, on grounds that the Taliban were not pleased and that the family of the suspects was threatening him again.

Having refused on grounds of religious legality and propriety to grant the Emperor's request for a dispensation to contract a fourth marriage after the death of his third wife, and declining to consult Pope Sergius III in the matter, Nicholas was banished to a monastery outside Constantinople.

The newspapers said that Mr. Kouchner, who is French, had asked Colonel Mechain to take a job in his office, but the Ministry of Defense had refused "on security grounds".

When someone suggests she ask the mother of a malnourished girl to compare her diet to that of a Western child, she refuses on grounds of tact.

I don't think the case is there for that – next they'll be arguing for a right to refuse on grounds of race, colour or ethnic background.

Their response to John, who of course cannot dance (though he is a fine basketball player), ranges from chilly politesse to open hostility: Dwayne, for example, refuses, on grounds of racial pride, to serve him chocolate ice cream.

From all the practices invited to attend, one practice refused on the grounds that they had not implemented AA.