Sentence examples for refused which was from inspiring English sources

Last year, after he was dropped from the starting rotation, Perez was repeatedly asked by the Mets to accept a minor league assignment, but he refused, which was his contractual right based on his major league service time.

When this was made impossible by NATO he gave the order to fight the people who refused which was his sovereign right and responsibility as one of the primary leaders of Serb forces.

The mother refused, which was certainly her prerogative, and the infant died two hours after birth.

When I asked for permission to use the text I was refused, which was disappointing.

"We also wanted G.E. to do a full repair program to all consumers free of charge, and they refused, which is their right," said Russ Rader, a commission spokesman.

A reporter later offered the Quinlans a hundred thousand dollars for a photograph of their daughter in her hospital bed, but they refused, which is why the iconic image of Karen Ann Quinlan is her high-school yearbook picture, a head shot of a pale and unsmiling eighteen-year-old with long dark hair.

The guard gave Wood the option of staying in his room for the night, the suspect refused, which is when the police were called.

In "Gran Torino," a priest invites Walt to confession, but he "refuses, which is part of the dialectic between call (an invitation to enter others' lives) and response (a refusal or acceptance of the invitation) that characterizes the film from start to finish".

Bloody Beetroots and I, we wrote a remix for the Refused, which is hardcore band that broke up years ago, and that is very much along the lines of mixing the two sounds.

A separate cart accompanied the wagon to collect other household refuse which was collected from a separate chamber in the pail closet.

It is also charged with implementing a European directive against filling big holes in the ground with refuse, which is how Britain currently disposes of most of its waste.