Sentence examples for through refusing from inspiring English sources

And we have to wonder why she's standing there like that, like someone who sees a doorway not as a thing to pass through, but as a thing to stand in, making a point by not passing through, refusing to pass through.

Many people just squint and muddle through, refusing to admit they need those drugstore reading glasses.

Some 20,000 relatives and ordinary citizens from surrounding towns came to their aid, and the police let them go through, refusing to attack.

Morris, though, has never been a television personality in any recognised sense - as shown by his attempt, through refusing most interviews and photographs, to remain unrecognisable - and his most important contributions to his shows have always taken place in private, as a writer or the architect of nasty larks.

And, as was the case in the aftermath of that near collapse of the financial system, we can expect that the bill for the damage suffered from climate change will be mostly paid by society, not those who allowed it to happen, or indeed in the case of oil, coal, gas and mining companies, who caused it through refusing to shift their  business models towards clean and renewable alternatives.

A new study came out showing how much revenue states ($20.5 billion) and the federal government ($8 billion) are missing out on through refusing to legalize (and tax) marijuana.

Daldry returned to cinema with Trash (2014), a drama about three boys who stumble upon a political scandal while picking through refuse in the favela they call home.

However, Thomson, speaking to the Guardian in his unglamorous office in Brighton (the college was due for a £40m revamp under the old Building Colleges for the Future programme, which died a death before the funding came through), refuses to be depressed.

The remaining 13% ended their life through non-PAS, the majority through taking lethal medication (90%) and a few through voluntarily refusing food and fluid (5%) or oxygen deprivation by inhalation of inert gas (5%) (not in Table; See Additional file 7).

You have to spend the next decade putting your parents through hell, refusing to do all the things that would put their mind at ease.

The episode crashing halfway through and refusing to restart.