Sentence examples for refusing to bear from inspiring English sources

By refusing to bear children.

Countries on the rise amass wealth and geopolitical clout by refusing to bear those costs.

He was excommunicated from the Church of England in 1786 for refusing to bear witness in an ecclesiastical suit; in the same year, he became a convert to Judaism.

The president must determine that it would be in the interests of the United States that these people be tried by military commission, and they must be chargeable with offenses against the international laws of war, like targeting civilians or hiding in civilian populations and refusing to bear arms openly.

In fact, it is so foreign to the typical tone of discourse among the GOP of 2012, it is like something alien from another planet, a planet populated by some terrifying form of Republifreaks who vote to fund certain vital social services and who neglect to demonize women for selfishly refusing to bear 18 consecutive children during their fertile years.

He refused to bear malice or to punish those who traduced him.

Only one character stands out: the Aryan youth who at training camp refused to bear arms and one day disappeared.

Were American taxpayers to refuse to bear so much of the burden of keeping the world safe for Danish container ships, other countries would surely step up.

Only the author's father, his brother refused to bear any hard feelings against him, and when the uncle was dying he visited him every day.

He refuses to bear a grudge, and says, for him, it remains a great country – you don't judge 300 million people on the behaviour of a few bad guys.

Krishna refused to bear arms in the great war between the Kauravas (sons of Dhritarashtra, the descendant of Kuru) and the Pandavas (sons of Pandu), but he offered a choice of his personal attendance to one side and the loan of his army to the other.