Sentence examples for refusing recognition from inspiring English sources

The Confederates could not forgive Britain for refusing recognition; the North could not forgive the unofficial help Britain gave the South.

The United States was the main holdout, refusing recognition on the grounds that the communist regime routinely violated accepted norms of international behaviour.

Would they be allowed to refuse recognition in other cases?

But countries including Russia and Spain have refused recognition, fearing separatist movements in their own territories.

Pinckney was appointed minister to France (1796) but was refused recognition by the French Directory and left Paris for Amsterdam.

Abbas refused recognition, Israel resumed building, and both sides were given political cover as the first round of Obama-era talks collapsed around them.

This distinction fails to explain why it may be more embarrassing to refuse recognition to an extraterritorial confiscatory law directed at nationals of the confiscating state than it would be to refuse effect to a territorial confiscatory law.

At present the 1996 "Defence of Marriage Act", signed by Bill Clinton, denies federal recognition to any state-approved gay marriages, and allows states to refuse recognition to other states' gay marriages as well.

A statement from Mr. Kerry campaign's said he had voted against the legislation, which permits states to refuse recognition of gay marriages performed in other states, because he believed it was "unnecessarily divisive".

Several EU nations are expected to refuse recognition of that independence, reviving painful memories of European disunity over the break up of Yugoslavia.Mr Rehn said previous empires and unions had been forged with the power of "cannons and armies".

Fan was appointed bishop of Shanghai – one of China's largest and wealthiest dioceses – by Pope John Paul II in 2000, but was refused recognition by the Communist Party-controlled Catholic Patriotic Association which oversees the church in China.