Sentence examples for refuses to acquiesce from inspiring English sources

Reports Thursday had Yahoo! looking into a deal with Time Warner 's AOL division that would keep it from the clutches of Microsoft, which has threatened a proxy battle if Yahoo! refuses to acquiesce.

Although Luke is severely outmatched by his larger opponent, he refuses to acquiesce.

There's nothing wrong with him and Liverpool wisely refuse to acquiesce to popular demand.

The kids fought back, asserting their innocence and refusing to acquiesce in their humiliation.

The U.S. also refused to acquiesce to Cuban demands for the return of the territory seized in 1898 on which Naval Station Guantánamo Bay was established.

As Nicholas D. Kristof suggests, President Bush could refuse to acquiesce in the genocide of a people (in contrast to certain predecessors), this time in Darfur.

It moved to negotiate a settlement, but the sheriff refused to acquiesce to its demand to place an independent monitor in his office, saying it would give the government too much power over local law enforcement.

Sir Stelios hinted that if the chairman, Sir Colin Chandler, refused to acquiesce, he would reassume the chairmanship himself, as he is entitled to do.In this section A gathering storm?

Mr. Comey is best known for his role in a 2004 incident in which, as the acting United States attorney general, he refused to acquiesce to aides to Mr. Bush, who wanted Mr. Comey to reauthorize a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program.

Ms. Trifonova refused to acquiesce, denying charges that she and a senator were involved in a plan to sell a seat in Russia's upper house of Parliament to the head of a Russian bank for $1.5 million.

Children who refused to acquiesce to ever more macabre demands were doused in petrol, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and told they would be next if they told anyone.