Sentence examples for refused to harm from inspiring English sources

Urquiza suggested to Grenfell that they should simply kill the resulting prisoners of war, but Grenfell refused to harm any of them.

Duong, who had developed a bond with his prisoner, refused to harm the man and got into a physical altercation with Nayeri inside a San Jose motel room on Jan . 28 Ma said.

I've been in situations where a reporter demanded disclosures which would harm many, and threatened public embarrassment, and the reporter fulfilled that threat when I refused to do harm.

But France cannot in any way exculpate the church hierarchy, which knowingly relocated predators to parishes where they could continue to harm children, and refused to turn them over to the police and civil authorities, to this day maintaining that this is a problem not for the courts but for the church.

Last month, Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, left Tokyo empty-handed after Japanese negotiators refused to allow measures that would harm pig farmers and orange juice producers.

The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate aims to use new technology to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) from power stations, without the necessity of the mandatory reduction targets set by the current international climate treaty, the Kyoto protocol, which the US and Australia have refused to ratify, claiming it would harm their economies.

He identified the group to which the gunmen belonged and stated that the non-Iranian hostages would not be harmed, but refused to allow the journalist to speak to any other hostages.

At the 2012 United Methodists General Conference, where delegates from around the world refused to eliminate the language that harms lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people, Bishop Talbert called for "Biblical obedience" to the Gospel of love rather than continue the victimization of church members who are LGBTQ.

Others point to the government, which has failed to reduce the supply of ecstasy and is refusing to embrace harm reduction strategies that have worked in Europe.

But Hitler, fearful that the relationship would harm his public image, refused to marry Eva and kept her a state secret, hidden away at his mountain-top residence, the Berghof.

While Australian state, federal and territory governments have refused to unanimously endorse evidence-based, harm-reduction approaches such as drugs testing at music festivals and medically supervised injecting rooms (only one injecting room exists in Australia, in NSW), leaders are increasingly acknowledging that the war on drugs has failed.