Sentence examples for refused to shoot from inspiring English sources

Several witnesses said police officers ran away or refused to shoot.

Ms. Pillay said that this number included civilians, army defectors and soldiers who refused to shoot at protesters.

Their first tier of defence, the feared police, collapsed, and then the armies refused to shoot their own people.

In November 1902 President Teddy Roosevelt, while out on a hunting trip, refused to shoot a poor defenceless bear.

Spokesmen held up bullets they said had not been shot by soldiers who refused to shoot at the protesters.

Stand where I am, it's safer here.' Küchelbecker fired and missed, while Pushkin simply refused to shoot.

(There's a case about a wedding photographer who refuses to shoot same-sex weddings).

The estimate includes civilians as well as army defectors and soldiers who were shot for refusing to shoot at protesters.

A couple of days later, The Washington Post published a Clifford Berryman cartoon showing the president refusing to shoot the bear.

Scores more have reportedly been killed for refusing to shoot at unarmed protesters, and others have simply deserted and gone into hiding.

Fifth, nonviolent resistance avoids "external physical violence" and "internal violence of spirit" as well: "The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him" (King, Stride, 85).