Sentence examples for refusing to subscribe from inspiring English sources

This gift for rising above the catastrophic with a penetrating flippancy – for asserting a personally costly kind of victory over the Establishment by seeing through its values, and with a wry, stoical loftiness, refusing to subscribe to them  – makes Everett heaven-casting as the lead in Hare's The Judas Kiss.

In theory that might mean that any dealer refusing to subscribe to the code of conduct could have trouble selling to publicly funded institutions such as the Tate.

Ranieri, however, refuses to subscribe to that view.

At the risk of his life, Ibn Ḥanbal refused to subscribe to the Muʿtazilī doctrine.

Most maddeningly, Saint-Exupery refuses to subscribe to schools; he slips through nets.

"I always refused to subscribe to the American policy of containment," he says.

But Roosevelt refused to subscribe to Hoover's proposals, which Hoover himself admitted would mean "the abandonment of 90 percent of the so-called new deal".

It was heartening to see that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito Jr. refused to subscribe to that philosophy, just as they have broken with Justice Scalia in other criminal justice cases.

But the two were unable to find common ground, as Roosevelt refused to subscribe to Hoover's proposals, which Hoover himself admitted would mean "the abandonment of 90 percent of the so-called new deal".

This roused immediate protest, and many ecclesiastics refused to subscribe to it, but the matter was dropped with the emperor's death, at which time the throne passed to his nephew Justin II in 565.

In 1665, with the other nuns from Port-Royal de Paris who had refused to subscribe to the anti-Jansenist formulary, Mère Agnès was transferred to the community's original house, Port-Royal des Champs, near Versailles.