Sentence examples for refused to bind from inspiring English sources

The German government, however, refused to bind itself as to Poland's future, demanding instead that the existing Polish units should swear "fidelity in arms with the German and Austrian forces".

The ministers agreed to drop the measure then pending, but refused to bind themselves in the future.

Hunter was a frustrated figure when he sliced a penalty wide of the posts early in the second period, awarded to Edinburgh when Ospreys prop Owen Williams was sin-binned for repeatedly refusing to bind on to his opposite number in the scrum.

For his String Quartet (1964), Lutosławski originally produced only the four instrumental parts, refusing to bind them in a full score, because he was concerned that this would imply that he wanted notes in vertical alignment to coincide, as is the case with conventionally notated classical ensemble music.

But Modernist architects by their very nature refused to be bound by tradition.

In a letter to a federal court, a lawyer for the City of New York complained that the Department of Justice had "abruptly refused" to be bound by the settlement agreement.

Kahlon refused to be bound by coalition discipline on these matters, effectively insisting on retaining a veto over any legislation that would weaken the court's independence.

He refused to be bound by the inflexible dogma of the Church, yet at the same time was hostile to the fundamentalist rationalism of the enlightenment.

It also meant that once this ceasefire began, the pro-Assad coalition would be able to claim international legitimacy for the new battle lines it had imposed in Aleppo, and when the rebellion refused to be bound by this aggression, Russia could blame the rebels for violating the ceasefire.

He also refused to be bound strictly by Archimedean methods; eventually he extended the range of cases in which a surface is generated by a conic section a curve formed by the intersection of a plane and a cone rotating about its principal axis by adding solids generated by rotation about lines in the plane of the conic section other than the principal axis.

Despite the common law restriction against co-defendants testifying for each other, Warren noted that federal courts had refused to be "bound by 'the dead hand of the common-law'" since 1918.