Sentence examples for refused to bite from inspiring English sources

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Cook refused to bite.

The unamused contractor, it is said, refused to bite.

Unfortunately, some obvious catches, such as Boehringer Ingelheim or Akzo Nobel, have reportedly refused to bite.

Told later of the comments, Lord Smith refused to bite back.

But Wenger refused to bite and insisted he did not feel like a "king" as Mourinho had called him.

Cablevision's executives refused to bite, answering with generalities about "strategic investments to help retain what is a very healthy business".

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This time, Congress is refusing to bite.

Like Morrissey, he has had deals with a variety of labels but refuses to bite his tongue when those deals have turned sour.

Yet he is also a Southern gentleman, steadfastly polite, refusing to bite when asked about a city official's observation that, hey, people in jobs sometimes have to move, so why not a displaced animal?

By refusing to bite at what appeared to be a military challenge by the South, the North was perhaps hoping to cast itself as the more reasonable of the Koreas, particularly in the eyes of its traditional backers in Beijing and Moscow, some analysts said.

It's the nineties, and nice is the prevailing mode, so that even when I bait the hook by mentioning — none too subtly — Gore Vidal, a longtime tormentor who once put Mailer in the same league as Charles Manson, Mailer refuses to bite: with the ardor of Solomon, he struggles to be fair to Vidal.

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