Sentence examples for refusing to maintain from inspiring English sources

A eurozone banking union has been ruled out, as has the so-called European stability mechanism (ESM), which would allow fines to be imposed on countries refusing to maintain balanced budgets.

Westland also complied with the sanctions by refusing to maintain any U.S.-made components.

For a half-century reactor backers have done a superb job of simply refusing to maintain or study reliable epidemiological data bases around commercial reactors (as well as weapons production facilities).

Lithuania, which had refused to maintain relations with Poland because of the dispute over Vilnius, yielded.

"These people refuse to maintain their property," Mrs. McDaniel, a retired Newark schoolteacher, said with indignation.

"On more than one occasion, he refused to maintain the good behavior and standards the other detainees maintained," Mr. Gill said, so he was placed in solitary confinement.

His father and brothers had been arrested on political grounds in 1931, and Aleksandr, wanting to pursue a literary career, refused to maintain contact.

Some states also require consumers to pay up to half the cost of an external review, and some allow the insurer to refuse to maintain insurance coverage during the appeals process.

The two still refuse to maintain normal diplomatic relations and China bitterly opposes Taiwan's claim to sovereignty, but they recently agreed to resume a dialogue which had been suspended for nearly a decade.

Mr. Gordon's text for this intimate, intensely elegiac work, heard Saturday evening at the Kaplan Penthouse as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, refuses to maintain a safe distance from the kind of extremely personal emotions that many would rather hold close to themselves.

They've refused to maintain the elevator properly.