Sentence examples for refusing to assent from inspiring English sources

Refusing to assent to a call by Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio to agree to withdraw the troops in Iraq, he asserted that President Bush had made Iraq more dangerous.

Perhaps if I keep refusing to assent to my present impression that wealth is good, wealth will eventually cease to appear to me as good.

He said: "This would have been the perfect opportunity to close loopholes like can the Queen refuse to assent to legislation?

Johnson said this morning he would pull all provisions from the amendment bill today if the Tories refuse to assent to the government's plans.

Though dark and uncompromising, Krutch, in the end, refused to assent fully to the vision of a morally and aesthetically gutted universe; he defiantly pledged allegiance (as if to a stirring lost cause) to a precariously human, if, all-too-human, humanism.

Therefore, except in certain instances described below, he may not refuse to assent to bills that have been validly passed by Parliament.

Last he sought to delay the implementation of congestion charging by refusing to give his assent to the way the revenues were to be spent.

Children requesting or requiring healthcare but who were not eligible to participate in the study or who refused to provide assent were provided with healthcare services without enrolment into the study.

Mr. Menendez had been blocking Judge Shwartz by refusing to return the so-called blue slip that senators from a nominee's home state use to signal their assent when the president makes a nomination.

When Parliament passes a press bill of which Charles disapproves, he rather improbably refuses to give his assent.

Formally asked to sign a bill restricting the freedom of the press, he refuses to give royal assent and thereby ignites a constitutional storm that brings the country to the brink of civil war.