Sentence examples for refused to decide from inspiring English sources

Its five conservative justices simply refused to decide the case, leaving the conviction and a life sentence in place.

8 We have previously refused to decide the constitutionality of the very provisions involved here because it was not clear that the Act would be applied to the objecting parties.

In a pair of cases that had the potential to reshape American democracy, the justices refused to decide whether election maps can be so warped by politics that they violate the Constitution.

Partisan gerrymandering: The court refused to decide whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional and instead dismissed cases from Wisconsin and Maryland for procedural reasons.

OCR also refused to decide our Title IX (sex discrimination) complaint against the City of New York when in 1996 it opened the first single-sex public school since the 1972 Title IX regulations prohibited such schools.

Yet the court inexplicably has refused to decide whether sanctions are necessary to force defendants to comply with its orders". The appeals court denied the writ three months later, saying that not enough time had passed yet for it to take action.

But the worst choice would be to refuse to decide and instead have a strategy forced on us.

There is something amiable and unaffected in the way Howard's film refuses to decide which of the two was the winner.

"As the final decision maker on news coverage in The Post, I refuse to decide, even privately, which candidate would make the better president," he wrote.

The political question that he is called upon to resolve is connected with the interests of the parties, and he cannot refuse to decide it without a denial of justice".

The net result of what has taken place in the Washington Supreme Court and here is to leave Beck in this predicament: the State Supreme Court considered his contention, tried to decide it but could not because it was equally divided; this Court on the contrary refuses to decide it at all on the ground that Beck has never raised such a question anywhere.