Sentence examples for refusing to applaud from inspiring English sources

After Mr. Obama made his controversial stopping-tragedies remark, prominent pro-tragedy members of Congress looked on in stony silence, refusing to applaud.

A parallel idiocy might involve refusing to applaud Derek Jacobi at the end of a performance, because he looked as if he wasn't acting.

COMMENT FROM JM: dangerous — republicans refusing to applaud protection from pre-existing condition exemption…are they really going to oppose that?

It would also help rescue the integrity of the film from the ambiguous state it has been mired in in recent years, most notably when Mr. Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1999 and much of the audience refused to applaud.

It has been reassuring for moderate Republicans to watch senior members of the G.O.P., first Bill Frist, then Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and now President Bush himself, refuse to applaud Mr. DeLay's comments and instead come down firmly in favor of an independent judiciary.

When Kazan received a lifetime achievement award at the 71st Annual Academy Awards some in the audience refused to applaud.

To be sure, many delegates, including dozens of rabbis and other communal leaders, boycotted the speech or sat on their hands and refused to applaud.

But at last, Hepburn had the acclaim she had always wanted, ever since her father had refused to applaud Jimmy's dives off the family pier.

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There were a few GOP holdouts who refused to applaud when Obama said Congress shouldn't "walk away" from the ever-growing number of Americans suffering without health insurance, including Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C ., David Vitter (La).

Following the release of the Chilcot report, JC backed a parliamentary motion declaring Tony Blair guilty of "contempt" over the Iraq War, and at the party conference in Liverpool he refused to applaud after Deputy Leader Tom Watson praised the governments of Blair and Gordon Brown, while some delegates gave a standing ovation.