Sentence examples for refusing to shoot from inspiring English sources

The estimate includes civilians as well as army defectors and soldiers who were shot for refusing to shoot at protesters.

Scores more have reportedly been killed for refusing to shoot at unarmed protesters, and others have simply deserted and gone into hiding.

A couple of days later, The Washington Post published a Clifford Berryman cartoon showing the president refusing to shoot the bear.

After a newspaper cartoon showed Roosevelt holding a rifle but refusing to shoot the bear, the teddy-bear stuffed animal was born and named for him.

But a friend who teaches cinematography at a major film school recently lamented that his students were refusing to shoot their projects on film.

The face of the rebel side was the Free Syrian Army, a loose affiliation of groups, some of which were led by officers who had defected from Assad's government forces after refusing to shoot unarmed protesters.

Several witnesses said police officers ran away or refused to shoot.

(There's a case about a wedding photographer who refuses to shoot same-sex weddings).

Ms. Pillay said that this number included civilians, army defectors and soldiers who refused to shoot at protesters.

Their first tier of defence, the feared police, collapsed, and then the armies refused to shoot their own people.

In November 1902 President Teddy Roosevelt, while out on a hunting trip, refused to shoot a poor defenceless bear.