Sentence examples for refusing to load from inspiring English sources

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The largest court-martial of the war is thought to be that of 50 black sailors who were convicted of mutiny and sentenced to 15 years in prison for refusing to load ammunition aboard a ship at Port Chicago, a Navy depot 30 miles northeast of San Francisco.

A railroad official said Amtrak would probably seek an injunction to stop them, but union officials said they believed that they were justified under the law and cited a 1982 Supreme Court ruling involving longshoremen who protested the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by refusing to load fertilizer on ships going to the Soviet Union.

But now a huge gap in wages may sour the idyll.Since the start of December, Finnish dockers have been refusing to load or unload two ships registered with the Estonian Shipping Company (partly owned by Norwegians) which have been taking cargo between Finland and Denmark much more cheaply than if they had Nordic crews.

But the terminal was refusing to load containers of U.S. exports on outbound Hanjin vessels unless "full payment was received in advance" from Hanjin or one of its representatives, he said.

Refused to load the trains, or pull the trigger?

She dumped Napravnik behind the gate, then refused to load.

The baggage handlers in his memory went on strike and refused to load the word deficit on to the conveyor belt of his tongue".

Or why, while the government supported America in the Vietnam War with troops, "wharfies" in Melbourne and Sydney occasionally refused to load ships bound for South Vietnam.

"I tried to resuscitate him although I could see the splinter sticking out of his chest," said Rassokha, who only realised his friend was dead when the ambulance crews refused to load the body.

Of Mr Miliband's admission that he had forgotten to mention the deficit in his speech, Mr Johnson suggested, "The baggage handlers in his memory went on strike and refused to load the word "deficit" onto the conveyor belt of his tongue".