Sentence examples for refusing to adopt from inspiring English sources

Refusing to adopt the traditional role of editor as de haut en bas authority, Hamilton has achieved something that feels not unlike a crowdsourced anthology.

She brings us the immigrant widow Margaret Schroeder, a woman whose needs she generously honors by refusing to adopt an aura of neediness.

Mr. Mainella also broke ranks by refusing to adopt the traditional recorded announcement used by generations of arrotini throughout Italy to broadcast their arrival: "Women, the arrotino and umbrella fixer is here," the recording proclaims.

Together, he and Tu Duc kept Vietnam closed to the West but, in refusing to adopt Western technology, left the country backward and vulnerable to conquest by the French.

He has often tried to defuse the colour question by pointing to his Thai mother, refusing to adopt the popular definition of his race as African-American and claiming instead multi-ethnicity.

Yemen's interior ministry rounded up dozens of suspects but is said to be refusing to adopt some of the State Department's suggested extra security measures.Yemen is an increasingly fragile state, where President Ali Abdullah Saleh tries to neutralise enemies and troublemakers by binding them into loyalty bargains, offering freedom in return for information and good behaviour.

"As a rule Ford adamantly refused to adopt parts and components patented by others," Greenleaf writes.

After consulting a Californian astrologer, she refused to adopt his twin brother Anthony.

But, so far, the Thai government has refused to adopt the practice.

Such users have steadfastly refused to adopt Windows 8 because they find it too strange and demanding.

That is also why India refuses to adopt the principle of identity cards which can be verified and crosschecked.