Example collocations logo

Refuse in sentence

763 examples of Refuse in a sentence

This is deeply troubling, for India’s supply of nuclear fuel, technology, and reactors is almost entirely dependent on imports from manufacturers who refuse liability for any malfunction.
It is more disturbing when people choose to break up nation-states because they refuse to share their wealth, for linguistic or ethnic reasons.
Of course, this does not excuse those who refuse to listen to reasoned analysis about our country’s past, but Russians will not accept glib rants.
Salim Idris, the council’s chief of staff, has expressed a willingness to fight alongside extremist groups that refuse to accept the unified command.
It is ironic, to say the least, that the West’s democratically elected governments happily engage with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, but refuse to work with more liberal groups.
In other parts of the world, the emergence of respect for a patient’s right to refuse vaccines creates a difficult challenge for those seeking to eradicate diseases such as polio.
Those who strive for the futile goal of a “drug-free world” refuse to recognize the proven benefits of harm reduction.
Police refuse to return Chen’s personal computer and cell phone.
Why Companies Should Refuse Trump’s DeregulationLONDON – US President Donald Trump may seem like a dream come true for business.
Why did the State Duma refuse to confirm his tenure of office?
Those who are not up to the new challenges are dismissed with a shrug as "leftovers from the past" and chucked onto the dustbin of history, a place overflowing with "human refuse" after years of communism.
The distorted markets imposed on Russia by the new oligarchs created by Russia's market "deforms" (I refuse to let such monstrosities parade under the name of reform) has brought the country back full circle.
Because they refuse to cede power to smaller shareholders, or to allow a substantial increase in resources to meet much greater global needs, emerging economies had little choice but to create their own institutions.
But it is condescending to refuse to hold many of them partly responsible for their own plight.
In the absence of change in North Korea, those who refuse to accept the legitimacy of its nuclear-weapons program have understandably sought help from China.
If macroprudential policy limited additional credit to marginal borrowers effectively, monetary policy would have no impact on demand (as long as the most solvent agents refuse to spend more).
If investors refuse to buy the debt on any terms, even a fiscally prudent government could find itself in a liquidity squeeze and become insolvent.
But even more than parents of naughty children, the international community is often helpless in dealing with "rogue states" that refuse to conform.
Those who refuse to be bought, however, may suffer the loss of basic rights (such as passport renewal), or have their reputations destroyed.
Congress is right to call for additional sanctions, and Donald Trump is wrong to refuse to implement sanctions that Congress has already passed.
The outer circles are the transition countries, while the rings around the center would be EU countries that still refuse to join the EMU, or do not yet fulfill all the conditions, like Romania and Bulgaria, or eventually the western Balkan countries and Turkey.
And we refuse to learn the lesson of the black swan even when the next one is already visible for all to see!
As Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte and the party leaders behind him refused to propose any other candidate for the post, the president concluded that his constitutional duty was to refuse to endorse the appointment.
But she said that this is exactly the scenario that Swedish police typically refuse to prosecute.
If some critics of Israel refuse to treat Israel as a normal country, however, the same is true of some of Israel’s staunchest defenders.
If the new proposal is adopted, the IMF would conditionally refuse funds to countries carrying debt burdens that Fund staff determine are most likely unsustainable; creditors would first have to agree to a “reprofiling” of debt.
Many have argued that Indian women should stand up to their families and refuse to abort their daughters.
Unwilling to question the political dogma that central banks must be apolitical, they refuse to think of money as more than a “thing.”
And there are reasons to be concerned – particularly when some US politicians refuse to acknowledge the nature of America’s global role.
For example, the US built the world’s trading and monetary system 70 years ago, but now Republicans in Congress refuse to support change at the IMF – including sensible reforms that almost all other countries favor.
BackNext