Sentence examples for refused to interpret from inspiring English sources

The department, however, refused to interpret the figures, saying they were not comparable with earlier statistics the agency had compiled.

During the bombing's 75th-anniversary year, accept Picasso's challenge to react to the work he famously refused to interpret.

However, following the common-law tradition, judges have refused to interpret legislation retroactively unless Parliament has clearly expressed such an intention.

Just as Samuel Beckett created his own mystique by refusing to interpret his own work, so Eagleton refuses to interpret his life.

Though he clearly wanted the numbers to be known, he stubbornly refuses to interpret them.

The option to refuse to interpret in such a mode is of course always open.

Thornton interprets this as Margaret refusing to see him.

For the Supreme Court, however, the only question was whether a federal appeals court properly interpreted a jurisdictional statute when it refused to block the pretrial discovery.

Asked whether such a call could be interpreted by some supporters to take to the streets, a spokesman refused to rule it out.

Raúl has refused to take a seat on the team council in a move that has been interpreted as a goodbye gesture.

When Howe then moved his army southwest from New Brunswick, Washington correctly interpreted this as move to draw him out of his strong position, and refused to move.