How To Use Refuse In A Sentence

This young man refuses to work and is freeloading
If the mother is allowed to refuse a kidney donation that would keep her child alive once the child is born, why should she be preluded from having an abortion if she wants one in order to save one of her kidneys? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Should a Parent Be Required To Donate a Kidney to a Child Who Needs a Life-Saving Transplant?”
He tried to refuse but she insisted so much that he gave in. Times, Sunday Times
And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
She had refused all solid food.

Dunstan: Dunstan: “What happens if the program administrator refuses to certify that the defendant “completed” the program on the grounds that the defendant refused to agree with certain teachings?” The Volokh Conspiracy » Stringent Constitutional Limits on Anger Management Classes, Anti-Drug/Alcohol-Abuse Classes, or Even Traffic School as Alternatives to Prosecution?
The company refused to honour the verbal agreement and put him on a more expensive tariff. Times, Sunday Times
More specifically, a recusant was someone who refused to attend Protestant church services.
Some newspapers still refuse to print certain swear words.
And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
I wanted to ask her out but was scared that she might refuse.
Ann, made of sterner stuff than I, refused all offers of help.
To my shame I refused to listen to her side of the story.
A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff.
The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation .
There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
Iran has refused to discuss the allegations of weapons experiments for three years, saying they are based on "fabricated documents" provided by a "few arrogant countries," a term Iranian authorities often use to refer to the United States and its allies. NYT > Home Page
When asked for permission to reproduce a work she granted the request and refused payment.
Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
She refused and subsequently suffered injuries to her shoulder, pulled muscles and bruises.
While there is breath left in my body, I will refuse.
And he warned Teheran it faces ever increasing sanctions if it refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment.
Whether it is a native cat, previously thought extinct, or an escaped exotic pet, the Beast of Bodmin is a creature that refuses to disappear.
The city of Lyon refused to carry out instructions from Paris and the city was besieged for two months.
Moreover, many insurance companies (including mine) refuse to pay the $30,000 cost, reasoning that any economic benefit they would recoup is years down the road. Beating Obesity
They put this view into practice quite straightforwardly, avoided ostentatious clothing and wealth, refused to swear oaths in court, to bear arms or to defend themselves.
When appearing in court, all three men refused to cooperate, claiming the government has no jurisdiction.
There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories
But unlike Karl Barth or Paul Tillich, for example, who saw themselves as fusing philosophy and theology, Rosenstock-Huessy refused to see himself primarily as a philosopher or theologian ” though when the term philosopher was qualified by the preceding ˜social™, he was more willing to accept that designation. [ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Yet again she refused, and this time the mage threw open the door to her room in a blind rage.
In the past it has refused to interfere in the country 's internal affairs but may be softening its position. Times, Sunday Times
After a time my brothers began pressing me to travel with them; but I refused saying, “What gained ye by travel voyage that I should gain thereby?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He was left in limbo by Scottish Labour's Executive, which refused to endorse his candidacy until Fife police concluded their investigations into the case.
After a promising start, the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it.
He refused to do so and insisted that he wished to re-enter the house.
It was considered a breach of etiquette to refuse an invitation.
The dockers refused to load the ship and prevented it from sailing.
My scooter is still very much a material object: it eats petrol, needs its tires filled and refuses to start on cold mornings.
Downing Street last night refused to discuss any British involvement. The Sun
Judge Benson, unbudging in his view that justice had been done in the case of United States v. Leonard Peltier, refused to order a new trial, and once again (in 1984) his ruling was appealed before the circuit court. United States v. Leonard Peltier
The team refused to resign themselves to defeat/to being defeated.
Earlier, in a dramatic outburst, he claimed he was not getting a fair hearing after being refused permission to call a witness.
Most of the reports will have been written, if not by the refuseniks, but the next tier of management.
The young men tried to enter a nightclub but were refused admission .
Many in southern Europe refuse to pay taxes, and rampant corruption in government and the public sector is the norm. Times, Sunday Times
You've been snowed, flim flammed from an early age and refuse to acknowledge it. Harlan Ellison on God
The Admiral had refused to listen to anything Marcus said, and eventually Marcus had been dismissed and ordered back for the tribunals.
He refused to rule out the possibility of a tax increase.
They refused to remove a clamp from a car outside a doctor's clinic even though the owner needed to bring his son to hospital and had no money.
Though a rugby career beckoned, he refused to abandon his education. Times, Sunday Times
Other, roumyng the cities vp and downe and caryeng alway in bottles faire watre and fresshe, if any man be disposed to drinke, vnasked they willingly proffre it him, and refuse not to take, if he for their gentlenesse offre aught vnto them agayn. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Again, he pours scorn on racialist mythology but, in his steadfastly conservative way, refuses to become histrionically sanctimonious on the matter, preferring studied contempt to self-promoting outrage.
When I worked in the ER I had a plastic surgeon beef up my personal ratio count when he refused to come in for a 27 year old female who literally had the right side of her face bitten off from her lip to her orbital canthus by her own pit bull, ONE WEEK BEFORE HER WEDDING. Time and Place
Anyone who refuses to pay an on-the-spot fine for allowing their pet to foul a footpath, for example, could be taken to court and find their name in the newspapers.
The uncontradicted evidence of Mr. Hopkins was that they refused due to the termination policy set out in the contract proposed by Lithonia.
Any competent adult has the absolute right to refuse to be examined by any particular individual.
When they finally found the daughter, the wife and grandparents refused to let her go to visit her dying father.
OTOH I’ve always been fascinated by the massive blind spot in multiculti and PC discourse which refuses to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory elements in many non western cultures. Cheeseburger Gothic » Drop your bombs between the minarets, down Geneva way-ay-ay-aaayyy…
The populist leader has dodged the issue of whether he will refuse a judicial summons to answer questions in the dock. Times, Sunday Times
The landlord refused to serve him because he considered him too drunk.
My grandfather had refused to put her in a nursing home and continued to interact with her as if she was a normal person.
For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie (as alreadie yee haue heard) through counsell of the canons Yorke he refused so to doo: bicause they informed him that if he so did, it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée, whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie, so that he was bound onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
He used his key to get in here and when he saw you feverous and unconscious, he refused to leave.
The bank refused to lend the money to us.
Both of the books' heroes are supermen who refuse to conform. Times, Sunday Times
She refused to allow the exhibition of her husband's work.
My writing heart feels as crushed as that last bit of toothpaste that refuses to be squeezed out its flattened, mangled tube because someone (and I won’t name name but it begins with S and ends in cott) left the cap off again … Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » That’s Right. It’s Contest Time.
I believe Whit is correct in asserting that we should teach all our children (male and female) to refuse anything they [[really]] do not want to do — when they are young and when they areolder. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The UK has refused to recognize the new regime.
But convictions were secured against just 50, mainly because witnesses refused to testify against the rest. The Sun
It was also last month that a federal judge refused to dismiss the state lawsuit against Desert Diamond Casino.
Northwest Airlines refused to make refunds for the unusable tickets.
The military, led by General Fidel Ramoz, refused its continued support.
Doctors are so scared of being sued that many will refuse to treat high-risk patients or perform difficult operations, medical experts have warned.
Their lowly status meant they were refused entry to Europe the next season. Times, Sunday Times
The lags staged the rooftop protest during a sunny spell and refused to come down. The Sun
The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta. India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change
We saw the engine had evidently refused to take a very sharp curve. Times, Sunday Times
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.
The gentle woo-woo spirituality of New Age is attractive because it refuses the grinding realities of life spent in the shadow of Wall Street and Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
It is morally wrong for western powers to recolonise territory in this way, and their soldiers should refuse to engage in a war of recolonisation.
The landlord refused to serve him because he considered him too drunk.
He refused to reveal the identity of his client.
The offer was too enticing to refuse.
Fox and hockey officials refused to put a price tag on a regulation puck stuffed with computer chips.
And yes, Mr Obama refused to endorse Mrs Clinton's bad plan tax holiday.
Human documents belong to humankind: hence his rage against obstructive archivists who dare refuse access to precious materials which have fallen to their care.
Anti-clerical knights of the shire who wished to disendow the Church, riotous tenants of an unpopular abbey, parishioners who refused to pay their tithes, would often be called The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Britain has consistently refused to extradite terror suspects to any country, including America, that has the death penalty.
When CBS reran the episode six months later, some 40 affiliates refused to air it, and national advertisers shied away from buying ad time, establishing a pattern that remains in effect today.
But the rags, the refuse - these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.
For several months the prices displayed by the machines on insertion of the card have been in both euro and punts, but on Tuesday the machines refused to recognise euros!
He mentioned this to his cousin, but O’Hara, with a light-hearted reference to forewarning and forearming, refused to take the matter seriously. The Dancing Druids
Georgia refuses to give up any territory.
The magazine refused to print his article.
Does Mr. Somin believe that it should be legal for a private restaurant owner to refuse service to a potential patron because the patron is an African American? The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca
It was on the tip of her tongue to refuse.
A bank cannot refuse to cash banker's draft, whereas it can refuse to cash a cheque.
He had tried to secure bail but the court refused for fear that he might flee before he could be brought to trial. Times, Sunday Times
Sir Charles Trevelyan refused to withdraw or to curb his activities in any way and was consequently expelled from the Party.Sentence dictionary
However, hotel staff say they refused to serve him at the bar, and claim that as a result Watson issued an angry tirade of abuse.
I know but he refuses to empty the trash himself.
It was the desperate act of a disgruntled former city employee who was refused his old job back.
FRED GOLDMAN, FATHER OF RON GOLDMAN: Twelve years ago, Ron and Nicole were murdered, murdered by a man whose name I still to this day refuse to use. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2006
Amid abandoned houses, plebeian hovels and piles of refuse and sewage, there were government offices, arms factories, official warehouses, and active markets.
Amazingly, he was left unscathed after being thrown onto the road when the thief refused to stop.
When requested to leave, they refused to comply.
Hi -- I would like to commend the courage and patriotism of several of your citizens, the three dozen employees of Americall who, when asked to telemarket and read a script of blatant and out-of-bounds lies to recipients, refused, and left their jobs, without pay, as a matter of principle. Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama
She refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor.
Since I refuse to believe that the author does not know or realize this, I am forced to conclude that he is simply a verbal masturbator playing to some other gallery. The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism:
Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery? John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
And there are no bugs there, like the one I encountered yesterday when the Hasbro game refused to let my friend Austin play, and I'm serious about this, play the word, scarabaei - S-C-A-R-A-B-A-E-I, which is the plural form of scarab, a beetle. Word Score! Scrabulous Returns As Lexulous
Pius IX had already refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Italy; and Catholics had been formally enjoined to abstain from voting in national elections.
Unlike many other politicians, he refuses to indulge in cheap jibes at other people's expense.
A recent Court of Appeal decision upheld an insurer's right to refuse a claim for theft because keys had been left in a car.
The bank refused to accept any mortgage on land.
The British Embassy refused to repatriate people not prepared to join the armed forces.
J.D. Salinger had to wall himself away from the world and refuse to play the literary lion that the sales figures of his books easily enabled him to become.
Pro-hunters fear that if peers refuse to back the Commons this time the Government will use the Parliament Acts to steamroller a ban into law.
She was absolutely horrified and refused to talk to me. Times, Sunday Times
And I heard remarkable stories of distinguished Marxist academics at other schools who flat out refused to teach undergraduate courses.
He said the police were forced to show results and intonated that if his client, Mr Zulu, was refused bail it would be a notch on the police's belt. ANC Daily News Briefing
It refused to say whether any of the migrants had claimed asylum or been asked to leave the country. Times, Sunday Times
Rwanda refused to confirm or deny the reported incursion, which raised fears of reignition of a devastating six-nation, five-year central African war that started with the 1998 Rwandan invasion of ANC Daily News Briefing
We refuse to just bow down and let the government do whatever it wants.
The government is planning to withhold benefit payments from single mothers who refuse to name the father of their child.
Parents who refuse to allow former partners contact with their children could be electronically tagged under plans being considered by ministers.
The setup is familiar, but Arvin calculates everything - the mystery, the office politics, the anti-death-penalty demonstrations, the race riots, the fiendishly escalating threats - so neatly that the whole package is an offer you can't refuse. Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin: Book summary
In one sense, Schaller correctly assesses the New Paradigm refuseniks as mourners for the lost order.
The government refused to approve yesterday's civil union at City Hall because it said the couple had given ‘incorrect’ information during the prenuptial vetting process.
She refused the offer of a lift back to the house she shared with three other students on Argyle Street.
Rydzyk has refused to deny making the comments, according to the BBC.Rydzyk has been described as a "kingmaker" in Poland. Priest known for extreme views invited to European parliament by MEPs
With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.
“The fact that a Dutch parliamentarian is refused entry to another EU country is highly regrettable,” Mr Verhagen said. Anti-Islamist politician Geert Wilders refused entry to Britain
He refused to knock under to any difficulty.
Ms. Knight refused to accept the manager's apology.
I refuse to bargain over the price.
Although threats to sack refusenik players who will not defer their wages have now been withdrawn, negotiations with the PFA are expected to continue for at least a fortnight. Business as usual for suspended Confederation of African Football pair
There must be some one for the duke to punish," heroically; "otherwise he will refuse. The Goose Girl
When the United States refused to allow thalidomide to be sold in this country, even though it was being sold in Europe, we saved countless children from being born limbless and otherwise deformed. Ed Koch: Canada Appears More Protective of Its Children Than Is The U.S.
If the defendant refuses to sign warning bells should ring.
Israeli spokesman Mark Regev says Hamas is a terrorist organization that refuses to renounce violence or recognize Israel.
He refused to comply with Henry's demand to accept a delay in payment and set about collecting his due by main force.
He refused to rule out the possibility of a tax increase.
I refuse to try on something like that,’ she squinched her eyes closed and made a cross with her fingers and giggled.
Later the same year, a pair of runners refused to submit to random drug tests.
Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot! Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
They refused to explain or excuse themselves, or their name. Times, Sunday Times
Chips says that Wallis righteously refuses to make any pronouncement at all, but the King is dead set on a morganatic marriage. THE WHITE DOVE
President Nicolas Sarkozy has refused to give in to growing public pressure, insisting that the pension overhaul is needed to prevent the system from going broke. French Unions Announce More Strikes
The management had previously refused to fully backdate the pay increase.
Despite a government campaign to depict the victim as a drug user and thief, Egypt's independent press refused to drop the story and thousands of Egyptians staged silent vigils to demand justice.
The court was invited to order that Mathews be recalled for further cross-examination in the light of material which had become available since the trial, but it refused to follow that course.
Other doctors refused to put a timeframe on his survival because of the unpredictability of the cancer. Times, Sunday Times
He defiantly skirted the Italian coastline aboard his luxury yacht, taunting the authorities who had steadfastly refused to allow him to set foot in his native country for more than half a century.
Eco-punk fashion takes on a new edge in these clever design combos - so for the eco-fashionista who refuses to settle for trends, look no further than a stylish spin on discards alchemized into treasures for adornment. Abigail Doan | Inhabitat
They are now able to refuse to disclose spill data on many of their sewer overflow pipes. Times, Sunday Times
Her family had tried repeatedly to get her into treatment, but she had refused to go, and California had no law that would enable them to commit her to a hospital against her will.
But in that typically unabashed and upfront Californian way - though she was actually born in Phoenix, Arizona - she refuses to be coy about the band's bacchanalian excesses.
The people there have slain some of his followers, forced him to fly for his life, and refused to pay scatt to a Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell
She refused to answer questions about how she could call the house her main residence. Times, Sunday Times
Rubbish littered the site, along with burned-out cars and refuse skips, huge piles of Tarmac and garden rubbish and gas cylinders.
He refused to comment as he left the court. Times, Sunday Times
My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently.
What I find both amazing and aggravating is that those who insist on what they euphemistically call “single payer healthcare” refuse to even discuss the propriety of those who have preexisting conditions, or persist in the negative behaviors that lead to diseased conditions, paying higher premiums in exchange for their not being denied coverage. The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Lipstick on the Health-Reform Pig:
But in an hour-long press conference which largely retrod the argument of yesterday's announcement, both men refused point-blank to comment on rumours of a new pact to pass the Labour leadership in return for entry to the euro.
The army apparently refused point blank to do what was required of them.
He was unable to attend the meeting in Moscow, because the Russian authorities had refused him a visa.sentence dictionary
The authorities are pressuring me to bring these people to them to record their statements but I am helpless as they refuse to go.
J'espere que je ne vais pas passer pour un gros fumiste en ayant refuser l'heure supplementaire que ma patronne m'a proposé ... c'n'est pas que j'ai refusé par faineantise mais juste parce qu'elle m'a prevenu trop tard et mon pere m'attendais dehors pour me ramener ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service.
Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North. A Renegade History of the United States
Accordingly, Wilson refused to take on any “mandate,” such as the Armenian territories of Turkey that had been victim of widespread massacres, or embark on an invasion of Russia to assist the anti-Bolshevik forces that were battling communist troops there. Shaping the World at Versailles: A Q&A With the Author of A Shattered Peace - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
But she refused to do the donkey work, staying calm while munching on a carrot. The Sun
Sony are allegedly not paying royalties to the Beatles, and refuse to withdraw the album.
We can refuse to remake our world in their image: a place of fear and mind control, where citizens are tracked and followed, where people are afraid to look or act different.
The refugees do jobs that workers in the host country refuse to do.
Some higglers block the entrance to the ‘most important’ Anglican church in the nation and refuse to move when ordered to by the representatives of the Government.
She lived with my grandma after my grandad passed away and she refused to speak to me, so I stopped visiting them both. The Sun
He behaved like a petulant child and refused to cooperate.
Though she was a fine soloist with vocal training, she refused, pleading no experience in choral work. Christianity Today
She was remanded in custody after being refused bail. The Sun
The Utraquist (Calixtine) priests refused the Sacrament to the Brethren. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Carter has been refused bail and will remain in custody.
I refuse to have such goings-on under my roof.
The censor Board has refused to renew the certificate of the film, since many of its scenes show Saibaba smoking.
The boy was from a good family but he was deranged in some way: he wouldn't eat, he quarrelled with everyone, and he refused to go out to work.
Debbie grabs Biscuit's trunk and tries to yank her free, but the raccoon's teeth refuse to unclamp. How the Rabies Epidemic Is Affecting Deer and Other Wildlife
Many are sent home because there is no one to watch them, or because supervisors refuse to work at weekends. Times, Sunday Times
On one occasion, the spruiker refused point blank to tell me the name of the company he was representing.
I shall have to refuse your invitation because of a prior engagement.
Under interrogation, he refused to say anything at first.
They refused to divulge where they had hidden the money.
Today, the BBS operator is simply told to implement a set of rules; if an individual sysop refuses, someone else will take his/her place or else the BBS goes out of operation.
The track's jockeys refused to ride the final four races on a ten-race card on Sunday, citing unsafe conditions on the main track.
The advocacy system gives the child the right to voluntarily admit himself or refuse admission.
Billions of flies gorged themselves on the great stacks of refuse and excrement. Modern Science in the Bible

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