Sentence examples for refused proposals from inspiring English sources

Following the example of de Gaulle, who refused proposals for an integrated Europe, Houphouët-Boigny opposed Nkrumah's proposed United States of Africa, which called into question Côte d'Ivoire's recently acquired national sovereignty.

When Khrushchev visited Beijing in 1958, Mao refused proposals for military cooperation.

Authorities that produce an up-to-date local plan will find that the law not only allows them, but requires them to refuse proposals for development which are contrary to a local plan.

The later chronicle of Theophanes Continuatus, however, reports a different story, according to which Nikephoros was disgraced and dismissed from his post after refusing proposals for a marriage alliance with Leo's powerful chief minister, Stylianos Zaoutzes.

Arafat refused the proposals, and at the end of last September, after Ariel Sharon took his notoriously provocative stroll on the Temple Mount near the al-Aqsa mosque, the second intifada began.

They also turned down Mrs. Rell's call to reject a contract arbitration award to state corrections employees and refused Republican proposals to make a symbolic 5percentt cut in legislative salaries.

Since 1 April 2009, YouTube has refused all proposals of an appropriate licensing".

We tried to reach an agreement with them that would allow the business to continue with these plans and have offered various solutions, and so far they have refused all proposals.

Bottle girls in tight dresses paraded around with sparklers and beer buckets, while slurring young financiers wooed scantily clad women with hard-to-refuse proposals.

In a fit of passion, he threatened suicide if she refused his proposal of marriage.

But many of the 19 groups in the negotiations refused the proposal.