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Example sentences for: refusal

How can you use “refusal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This is a season of refusal in American politics.
It reflects at least in part the conception of liberty that was championed earlier in this century by such writers as Robert Lee Hale, who found coercion in every refusal to deal.
In another British liberal paper, the Independent , France was condemned for its initial refusal, subsequently reversed, to accept any refugees, with reference to the "similar attitude struck during the Bosnian war," and Germany was attacked for "drastically reducing the numbers it had been expected to take."
Despite President Clinton's widely reported refusal to rule out the use of ground troops, the Times continued to portray him as a wimp.
The refusal of the French elite to face up to what looks like reality to the rest of us may doom the very European dreams that have sustained the nation's illusions.