Sentence examples for refusing to tour from inspiring English sources
As for the group's leader, he seemed to recoil from fame, refusing to tour outside LA.
Refusing to tour America, he played a few British dates and recorded his successful follow-up, Night Owl (1979), which yielded further hits: Days Gone Down, Get It Right Next Time and the title track.
The Caribbean is still unsure whether India will inflict the grave financial blow on them of refusing to tour their islands in the future: recrimination for the West Indies' abandoning a tour of the sub-continent this year because of a pay dispute.
As well as having to coax Warners into releasing Losing My Religion as a single, going against the record company's wishes in refusing to tour Out of Time (because they needed to recharge after gruelling years spent on the road) also suggests a certain unease with the new, far more commercial world they were now in.
Through Pennebaker's film we see for the first time the machinations of an artist who knows he has to destroy his past to create a future – something the Beatles did in a more passive-aggressive way by refusing to tour – but we also see the start of the bemused media's attempt to co-opt and contain a youth movement that is growing and evolving by the minute.
The movement has steadily picked up adherents, particularly in Europe, with many European musicians, including Roger Waters and Brian Eno, refusing to tour in Israel.
Yet some, unlike Emburey, refused to tour South Africa when the offer was made.
Australia last year refused to tour Pakistan amid the unrest which followed the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Not only were they musically low-key but the band refused to tour and Stipe withdrew from interviews.
He also refused to tour in South Africa in 1958 when asked to sign a contract stipulating that his band would be all white.
The Australians refused to tour Pakistan in 2002 on safety grounds, prompting the International Cricket Council to shift the three-Test series to Colombo and Sharjah.
