Sentence examples for refusing to handle from inspiring English sources

It aims, he said, to avoid the "influence of a single figurehead" by refusing to handle documents itself.

Supporters praise his taking unusual actions in pursuit of his notions of justice, like for a time refusing to handle drug cases out of opposition to mandatory minimums.

The United States, Australia and New Zealand are all threatening sanctions too, and Australian trade unions are refusing to handle cargo and mail between the two countries.

-- "Lights and Shadows of New York Life," by James D. McCabe Jr. (1872) In 1899, several thousand newsboys, who made about 30 cents a day, called a strike, refusing to handle the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

With the shift away from the old exchange policy not yet official and banks refusing to handle foreign exchange transactions, a black market for dollars quickly sprang up, with 1.4 pesos required to obtain a dollar.

Last year, a county court judge in western New York was disciplined for saying that refusing to handle cases filed by law firms where some legislators worked as lawyers was "a weapon" that could pry a pay increase out of "those clowns".

Embarrassed dealers refused to handle them.

"Our distributor refused to handle them.

So you and your crew refused to handle the explosives?

But she refuses to handle one move -- her own.

Teamsters refused to handle poultry for recalcitrant marketmen, and members of the shochtim union refused to slaughter.