refusal
Example Sentences
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But Mr. Brown, in his refusal to credit counterbalancing positives, such as Roosevelt’s prodigious intellect or his genuine empathy for the less fortunate, risks reducing TR to a one-dimensional straw man.
“These refusals represent the FDA’s import program working as intended—preventing potentially unsafe, ineffective or noncompliant products from reaching American consumers,” an FDA spokesperson said.
Lawyers for the group have given ministers until Tuesday afternoon to respond to a threat to go to the High Court over a refusal to hold talks.
From BBC
“Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.”
From Los Angeles Times
The suit alleged that his company made fraudulent purchase offers for spectrum licenses held by U.S. schools that were inflated to trigger “right of first refusal” agreements T-Mobile had with the schools.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
