Sentence examples for refusing a demand from inspiring English sources

It is refusing a demand by almost one-third of its investors to have a straightforward vote on a critical decision for the company's future.

In December 1990, Mr. Kuzmin had quit a state construction company in disgust after refusing a demand that he join the Communist Party.

He reportedly refused a demand from state security to leave Beijing last month.

George Stergiakis, another cinema owner, said his property was firebombed after he refused a demand for protection money.

When Iraqi officials refused a demand from the United States to continue granting immunity from legal prosecution to American soldiers, there was no way the Pentagon could accept that.

MURDOCH Former Prime Minister John Major disclosed to a judicial inquiry that Rupert Murdoch withdrew his newspapers' support for the Conservatives after Mr. Major refused a demand for changes in his policies on Europe.

In 1981, as the ambassador to El Salvador, I refused a demand by the secretary of state, Alexander M. Haig Jr., that I use official channels to cover up the Salvadoran military's responsibility for the murders of four American churchwomen.

Photo: The Lebanese Army continued yesterday to attack militants of Fatah al Islam, a group inspired by Al Qaeda, in the Nahr al Bared refugee camp after they refused a demand to surrender.

Soon after, Mr. Fine's community bankers also left the talks, having refused a demand by Mr. Durbin to publicly announce support for the principle of allowing bankruptcy judges to reduce mortgage payments.

LONDON — As the judicial inquiry into the British press sifts painstakingly through competing claims about the influence of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, former Prime Minister John Major disclosed on Tuesday, for what he said was the first time, that Mr. Murdoch withdrew his newspapers' support for the Conservatives after Mr. Major refused a demand for changes in his policies on Europe.

Lazaro Gonzalez, the boy's great-uncle and temporary guardian, continued to refuse a demand from the Immigration and Naturalization Service that he agree to hand the child over to immigration officials if the Miami relatives lose a fight to keep him when the case is heard in May in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.