Sentence examples for refusing to congratulate from inspiring English sources

Australia have won their past 11 Tests against Wales, many by a sustained ability to haul themselves off the canvas at the end of a gruelling contest to deliver a knockout blow, but after refusing to congratulate New Zealand after their record 18th consecutive Test victory the Wallabies' coach, Michael Cheika, remains uninterested in history.

He refused to congratulate Mr. Jeffries, who he said "showed a lack of character".

Senior clerics in the holy Shiite city of Qum refused to congratulate Ahmadinejad on his controversial victory.

She refused to congratulate her East German conquerors because she was sure they had taken illegal bodybuilding drugs.

He also spoke contemptuously about the Western countries that had refused to congratulate him on his election victory.

Grant immaturely refused to congratulate McClernand, but was too embarrassed to remove him, especially after Grant's friend Sherman claimed that the expedition was his idea.

Many of Iran's top-ranking clerics refused to congratulate President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following his disputed reelection last year, which many consider to have been fraudulent.

First, President Bush refused to congratulate Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany on his re-election victory, then Mr. Bush ignored a personal letter from the chancellor.

It was certainly led by the worst loser: Mr Berlusconi refused to congratulate the winner, Romano Prodi, insisting that the centre-left had fiddled the vote.The media tycoon, who will stay as caretaker until a new government is formed, was forced out after last weekend's votes for the two speakers in parliament showed that Mr Prodi had a majority in both chambers.

Not least the one who beat her, the USA's Lilly King, who said over and again that Efimova shouldn't have been allowed to swim here, and refused to congratulate her after the race was over, because Efimova had twice failed drugs tests.

For his part, Mr. Prinze, with his charming, lopsided smile, cheerfully impersonates a young man who feels that his relationship is beginning to fray because his girlfriend insists on opening her eyes when they kiss, and because when he beats her at Ping-Pong she refuses to congratulate him.