Sentence examples for what he refused from inspiring English sources

What he refused to do was propagandise.

"I said, a hundred thousand dollar, for what?" He refused and they went away, he said.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties campaign group Liberty, said in a statement: "The foreign secretary's statement to parliament is most revealing for what he refused to reveal.

Nidal Malik Hasan, the military psychiatrist found guilty last week of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in November 2009, have asked the judge overseeing his military trial here to allow them to do what he refused to do while acting as his own lawyer — persuade a jury to spare his life.

"We ask Governor Bush to do what he refused to do," Mr. McCain said at a student rally at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit school south of San Francisco, "tell his sleazy Texas buddies to stop these negative ads and take their money back to Texas where it belongs, and don't try to corrupt American politics with your money".

What he refused to do was place blame on anyone but himself.

She has to show us both what Phillip sees and what he refuses to acknowledge: the tender, funny resourceful mother, and the damaged, lonely woman casting about for stability.

What he refuses, however, is the claim that the cognition of pragmatic efficacy provides a fundamentally different kind of justification than the initial cognition.

Although at times it sounds as if Thoreau is advocating anarchy, what he demands is a better government, and what he refuses to acknowledge is the authority of one that has become so morally corrupt as to lose the consent of those governed.

But the Arminians reject such a doctrine as inherently unjust; it is simply unjust, they say, for God to do for some, namely the elect, what he refuses to do for others, particularly since the elect have done nothing to deserve their special treatment.

"Ulysses" is found lacking in narrative action; the hero's goal is vague, and by the poem's famous last line, it is not clear for what he is "striving", or to what he refuses to yield.