Sentence examples for war refused from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fleming, an opponent of the Vietnam War, refused to summon police, and the threat passed.

Having spent 65,000 francs on the project to date, the Ministry of War refused to fund additional trials.

Until recently France and Germany, two important NATO members that opposed the war, refused to consider sending troops to Iraq.

Lincoln, during the Civil War, refused to make the mansion a garrison, but made quiet concessions to reality: plain-clothed sentinels patrolled the property.

Although Clark was officially a lieutenant and second in command because the U.S. secretary of war refused him the same status as Lewis, the expedition leaders referred to each other as "captain" to mask this bureaucratic distinction.

Almost 100 years ago to the day, women left behind in the Glasgow tenement blocks as their husbands fought in the great war refused to be bullied into paying ever higher housing costs and went on a rent strike.

Some veterans of the human rights campaigns of the cold war refuse to admit that the climate is any worse now than it was then.

Hillsdale, which took blacks and women before the Civil War, refuses to count ethnic composition.

The Lakeshore Entertainment Group executive hired to market "Dragon Wars" refused to discuss it.

Writer-director-star Luke Moran retreads many archetypes and tropes left over from movies about the Vietnam and Korean wars, refusing to engage modern military rules and realities as laid out in his film's contemporaries, such as "The Hurt Locker" and "Lone Survivor".

At the outbreak of World War I, Trotsky joined the majority of Russian Social-Democrats who condemned the war and refused to support the war effort of the tsarist regime.