Sentence examples for refused to summon from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fleming, an opponent of the Vietnam War, refused to summon police, and the threat passed.

After all, it was the Puritans who had introduced similar practices in colony governments — mandating annual elections, insisting that legislatures could meet even if a governor refused to summon a new session and declaring that no law was valid unless the people or their representatives had consented to it.

On 24 January 2011 the court refused the referral and also refused to summon Aboul Gheit at the request of Qandil's defense team.

Gell summoned the Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire associations forces to defend the town but they refused to muster for him.

He refused to answer the summons.

When Francis refused to answer the summons, his father called him before the bishop of Assisi.

Larry, a younger brother, also refused to obey the summoning bell.

Mr. Chirac has denied all wrongdoing in the case and refused to answer a summons to testify.

At an earlier hearing at Westminster magistrates' court, a district judge refused to issue a summons against Thompson.

In his police report, Wilson says that Arman refused to take the summons, and so he arrested him for "failure to comply".

In his autobiography, A Long Walk To Freedom, Nelson Mandela describes how his father refused to obey a summons to appear before the white magistrate over the issue of a missing ox.