Sentence examples for refusing the chance from inspiring English sources

The Red Sox were the last major league team to integrate their roster, and are remembered for refusing the chance to acquire Willie Mays in 1949.

Some soldiers, stoically, have refused the chance to go home.

After Beckham refused the chance to take the kick, Huntelaar fired home Milan's fifth goal.

ESPN, which rarely refuses the chance to produce advertisements for itself.

The Sun or The News of the World would hardly refuse the chance of featuring a Jimmy Savile sex scandal.

How can she refuse the chance to finally break through and do even bigger things as president of the United States?

The Red Sox were the last major league team to integrate their roster, and refused the chance to acquire Willie Mays in 1949.

6.26pm BST 123rd over: Sri Lanka 414-7 (Mathews 78, Herath 0) Plunkett bowls, and Mathews refuses the chance of an early run in order to protect Herath.

But the Americans offer something that few of them can refuse – the chance to play on the world stage, to relive the glory days when Britain really was a power to be reckoned with.

If that were to be done, the ethical issues are more complex than they might seem: is it ethical to refuse the chance to eliminate a serious genetic disease in a future individual "without their consent"?

That was why we refused the chance to join the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, and our infatuation with our own greatness was sufficiently undamaged by Suez in 1956 to make us refuse to join the EEC when that got going with the Treaty of Rome in 1958.