Sentence examples for thinking to refuse from inspiring English sources

The phrase "thinking to refuse" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where someone is contemplating the idea of refusing something, but it is not the most natural phrasing. Example: "I was thinking to refuse the offer, but I decided to accept it instead."

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Q: Are you seriously thinking to refuse U.S. citizenship?

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Accordingly, it is appropriate, and indeed a matter of urgency, for right-thinking (meaning left-thinking) academics to refuse to engage in intellectual discourse with the Israeli academy.

Thinking it unwise to refuse, he dredged up his best schoolboy Latin.

He said that many people may be horrified by the woman's thinking and her decision to refuse treatment could be characterised as unwise and even immoral.

Black and white thinking: refusing to see gray areas and making an all or nothing judgment.

To be a Jewish liberal means to endure complexity and to refuse black-and-white thinking both of Israel's illiberal right-wingers and Israel's foes that deny its right to exist.

Militarization is evidence of the old, hardline way of thinking that refuses to see drug addiction for what it is: a disease.

Both appeal for the younger generations to refuse the "pensée unique" or standard political thinking of their parents.

I want to refuse.

The position to refuse".

Maybe it's pie-in-the-sky thinking, but I refuse to give in to "the way things are," when the way things are is untenable and unhealthy.

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