Sentence examples for refused to divert from inspiring English sources

Then, up to three million people died in large part because Churchill – deaf to the humanitarian pleas of the India secretary Leo Amery, and the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow – refused to divert plentiful Allied shipping to alleviate mass starvation.

But military and government officials have said that the president had authorized the shooting of any plane that refused to divert from the capital and that the fighter pilots were airborne in time to have done so.

The MP refused to be diverted from the long-planned mental health event in his Islington North constituency, saying it was important to keep up his local duties.

And unlike others the many, many others in Washington who wanted the same thing he did, who had set their sights on the same goal, Lyndon Baines Johnson, born August 27, 1908, had mapped out a path to that goal, and he refused to be diverted from it.

What can be seen is that many Twitter users refused to let Trump divert attention from serious issues facing his administration.

But there was Nadja, standing serene for photos as sand was filling her eyes and nostrils, refusing to be diverted from her goal.

We must refuse to be diverted by those with violent, self-aggrandizing, political agendas.

But Mr. Levy has refused to hire more than 70, instead diverting the added revenue to cover existing operations.

When Marcian (ruled 450 457) refused to continue the subsidies, Attila was diverted from revenge by the prospect of conquests in the West.

Indeed, in some years, the formula led to bonuses so large that Swartz and Kozlowski refused to accept the full amount, or they diverted some to other employees.

They have steadfastly refused to acknowledge those concerns… We believe they are attempting to divert scrutiny of their vehicle by casting doubt on the quality of Firestone tires".