Sentence examples for refused the proposal from inspiring English sources

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

Mrs. Bryant refused the proposal, but a few days later said she would accept the stone as a friendship ring.

But Mr. Anastasiades denied that he refused the proposal to exempt deposits under 100,000 euros from the levy, according to the government spokesman, Christos Stylianides.

"As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident," the Pyongyang regime said in a statement, adding that there would be "grave consequences" if the US refused the proposal.

While exploring the key incident — in which Emily, after many years of marriage to a Captain Jesse, refused the proposal, offered in a séance, to be reunited with Hallam after death — Byatt read Alex Owen's "The Darkened Room," "a gripping feminist account of nineteenth-century mediumship as one of the few professions open to women".

However, the deputies of the city refused the proposal because of the lack of consensus between political parties.

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.

Younger may accept or refuse the proposal.

When Tamizhselvi refuses the proposal due to her concern for Sivaji, he calms her fears and convinces her to marry him.

Kali refuses the proposal due to his hatred for Kumaran, and instead makes arrangements to get Valli married to Murugesa (Venniradai Moorthy)a local, philandering grocer.

Afroza's father, Md Akram Hossain, recalls how he eventually agreed to his daughter's request: "Refusing the proposal was a big challenge for me.