Refuse in sentence

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Pedestrian zones, congestion fees, emission limits in cities like California cities have, there's lots and lots that cities can do even when opaque, stubborn nations refuse to act.

The bottom line is, we still live politically in a world of borders, a world of boundaries, a world of walls, a world where states refuse to act together.

But the fact that a woman so far away out in the world, who grew up in a rural village, who's being told to marry someone she doesn't want to marry, can now go meet once a month with a group of people and refuse that, and find life on her own terms.

No, they will refuse.

And the appraisers explained how it was occurring, that banks were demanding that appraisers inflate the appraisal, and that if the appraisers refused to do so, they, the banks, would blacklist honest appraisers and refuse to use them.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is smart enough to refuse to answer the question.

I refuse to repeat history.

And for that reason, I refuse to give up on a single student in my class.

With that many meetings every day, with tea offered at every one of them, which he could not refuse, because that would be rude, he could not take even one cube of sugar per cup of tea, because that would be many kilos of sugar, he can't even calculate how many kilos, and at that point I realized why he was speaking so fast.

And I refuse to accept that we can't build this world into something new, some place where a child's name doesn't have to be written on a t-shirt, or a tombstone, where the value of someone's life isn't determined by anything other than the fact that they had lungs, a place where every single one of us can breathe.

So they are so powerful that in a common law country, if you go to a hospital and you refuse life-saving medical treatment, a judge will not order it forced upon you, because they will respect your self-determination and your autonomy.

For example, Visa, Master Card and American Express refuse to process transactions from backpage.com,

Over the past century, and in particular in the last several decades, human endeavors, from beach development to plastic refuse to poaching, long lines, nets, and even noxious chemicals, including oil, have upped the ante for sea turtles, causing their survival rate to drop to around one percent or less, from each nesting cycle.

In fact, more than two-thirds of cult members are recruited by a friend, family member, or co-worker whose invitations are harder to refuse.

It's particularly hard when we have to fight, when we have to refuse to succumb to the belief that things won't change.

A sex worker can refuse to see a client at any time, for any reason, and 96 percent of street workers report that they feel the law protects their rights.

And she told me they teach their kids to refuse anything from somebody that they don't know because maybe this person needs it more than they do.

Just as I cannot and don't wish to turn back to the clock on equality and diversity, and yet must understand the sense of loss they can inspire, so, too, I refuse and could not if I wished turn back the clock on an ever more closely knit, interdependent world, and on inventions that won't stop being invented.

I would get a bad reputation, and you would refuse to do business with me in the future.

So my plea today to everyone, especially those who sincerely believe in Islamist jihadism ... refuse dogmatic authority; let go of anger, hatred and violence; learn to right wrongs without even attempting to justify cruel, unjust and futile behavior.

People who refuse to believe that living in these fat bodies is a barrier to anything, really.

I had to be brave like Erica and refuse to surrender, so every day, I made a decision to fight.

Or had a server refuse to bring you a glass of wine?

We refuse to even acknowledge that women who have sex with women or women who don't want children even exist.

And I think now we need a surge of imagination, creativity, informed by history, for, as the philosopher Santayana reminded us, in the end, only those who refuse to study history are condemned to repeat it.

But how will we understand what it is in human societies that produces violence if we refuse to recognize the humanity of those who commit it?

And just as I learned to do, we routinely refuse to acknowledge the flaws in our positions or the merits in our opponent's.

This right would secure for us our freedom of thought and rumination, our freedom of self-determination, and it would insure that we have the right to consent to or refuse access and alteration of our brains by others.

Those who refuse would face large penalties.

To be clear: I refuse to be a tape recorder.

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