Sentence examples for rejecting membership from inspiring English sources

Mr Gul told The Economist that Turkey would pursue the reforms to join even if most of the chapters remained closed, and added that it was possible Turks might end up rejecting membership anyway.

He suggests a "multicultural nationalism" that is only civic in nature because it is based on the recognition of groups rejecting membership as ascriptive, as well as the concept of "Otherness that refers to Ethnicity".

He endorses free trade, rejecting membership in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization as "managed trade".

In 1948 Burma (Myanmar) became independent and rejected membership.

The first, in 1972, saw the country reject membership by 53.5% to 46.5% of voters.

Harding, in line with the Republican Party platform, firmly rejected membership in the League of Nations.

In 1992, however, Swiss voters narrowly rejected membership in the EEA.

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Jens-Peter Bonde is a Danish MEP and veteran Eurosceptic, who played a leading role in persuading his countrymen to reject membership of the single European currency.

A nationwide vote, set for March, is the first on the issue since 1986, when voters rejected membership by a 3-to-1 margin.

Students at a string of student unions including York and Oxford are agitating to reject membership of theNUS in the wake of her election.