Sentence examples for refused to align from inspiring English sources

However, three newly elected Democrats have refused to align with the party, and his arrest further clouds the party's hopes.

Throughout the campaign, Mr. Yushchenko has refused to align himself with the popular opposition figure Yulia Tymoshenko, whom Mr. Kuchma fired as deputy prime minister and has repeatedly tried to jail.

Although 32 Democrats were elected to Senate seats in November, three holdouts have refused to align themselves with the current party leadership, leaving open the possibility that the Republicans could retain the majority.

Further, his growing role in youth baseball has created tensions with Little League Baseball, the 64-year-old federation of youth leagues, which historically has refused to align itself with any one star player.

At Dalí's urging, the poet began to experiment more boldly with avant-garde currents in the art world, notably surrealism, although he refused to align himself with any movement.

The fresh restrictions on the clerics' web sites appears to be a further sign of the widening gulf between Iran's leadership and top ayatollahs who have refused to align themselves with an increasingly authoritarian regime.

Conceding that Corbyn is "a political maverick, a political transgressor and deviator who refuses to align himself with the mores and quirkiness of the British political establishment", they thought press reaction to him was "transgressive and highly problematic from a democratic perspective".

In his view, however, a true philosopher does not hesitate to re-assess any opinion from whatever source; refusing to align himself with a sect or school, he presents himself as a critical, independent thinker (Repastinatio, 1 8; 359–363).

After repeatedly refusing to align herself with the feminist movement, Beauvoir declared herself a feminist in a 1972 interview in Le Nouvel observateur and joined other Marxist feminists in founding the journal Questions féministes.

I eventually aligned myself with the idea of being third gendered by rejecting gender as a whole and refusing to align with either male or female, a concept which is now defined as gender non conforming.

In some cases, we are even called heretical and not the true followers of Christ because we refuse to align with political ideologies that do not agree with harm reduction.