Sentence examples for refused to inform from inspiring English sources
Barry, 18, became a national hero after he refused to inform on fellow revolutionaries who had killed a British soldier.
Mr. Heller has held few events open to the public, and his aides have refused to inform journalists in advance of the rare event on his schedule.
Writing for the court today, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said: "South Carolina has consistently refused to inform the jury of a capital defendant's parole eligibility status".
The next day, the police chief resigned as well, after the mayor had accused him of disloyalty (he had refused to inform the mayor in advance about the raid).
Nevertheless, he was esteemed in the neighborhood as something of a gentleman and, more important — as the countless residents who refused to inform on the Bulger gang explained — one of their own.
Burley's brothers were young teenagers when they faced murder charges, which were brought because the boys had been in a car with others who committed the crime and the teens refused to inform on the others.
The punishment for the lesser charges -- reading political treatises aloud and refusing to inform on his friends -- was harsh enough: interrogation, solitary confinement, hard labor and stark terror.
Only a small minority of the local people may actively help them, the officials say, but most refuse to inform the government of their whereabouts.
Why did it refuse to inform the public about Gertrude Stein's wartime record, even after it agreed that it ought to address her collaboration with France's pro-Nazi government?
That year, the Vatican actually lauded Bishop Pierre Pican for refusing to inform the local French police about a paedophile priest, telling him: "I congratulate you for not denouncing a priest to the civil administration".
This hostility has meshed neatly with the interests of the security services, which since Soviet times have viewed the denomination as subversive because its global headquarters are in the United States and its members steadfastly refuse to inform on one another.
