Sentence examples for refusing membership to from inspiring English sources

Membership would be compulsory for all citizens, and the social insurance schemes would be banned from refusing membership to anyone.

Such semblance of neutrality did not last, however, with the GAA helping to form a prisoners' welfare grouping, refusing membership to the Crown's armed forces and prohibiting members from playing "foreign games" such as rugby.

The alliance urged the Boy Scouts of America against ending its policy of refusing membership to individuals who are openly gay, suggesting the decision was of such importance that it could put at risk "the right to maintain moral values that form the basis of western civilisation".

Most of the conversations about the Boy Scouts of America's proposed revision to its Membership Standards has focused on the double standard of granting membership to openly homosexual youth as scouts and refusing membership to openly homosexual adults as leaders.

(Until 2001 the Gaelic Athletic Association refused membership to the "British security forces", lifting the ban only when the new police service emerged).

Anh Cao, a newly elected Vietnamese-American Republican from a predominantly black district in Louisiana, has asked to join the caucus, which has repeatedly refused membership to nonblacks.

He was criticized for being a member of a private club that had refused membership to blacks and women; gay rights advocates also denounced his representation, as a private lawyer, of the United States Olympic Committee in its efforts to keep another organization from calling itself the Gay Olympics.

We've already seen IBM come under fire for backing the US Masters, run by a golf club that refused membership to IBM's CEO based simply on her body parts, when people with other kinds of parts normally get let in.

His church refuses membership to "unrepentant" gays and lesbians.

But City Councilman William Bell said a decade-old council resolution advises that city funds should not be used for any clubs that refuse membership to blacks.

Tells at length about Wm. James refusing membership in the Academy & goes on to tell about others & some who resigned.