refuse to recognize

Example Sentences

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Some of those laws also refuse to recognize out-of-state subpoenas or to cooperate with out-of-state investigations.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

We refuse to recognize it because it would require us to look in the mirror.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2022

But plenty of Westerners still refuse to recognize that distinction, and company lawyers worried that Russia wouldn’t, either.

From The Verge • May 12, 2022

If not, the State granting the divorce did not have the authority to do so, and another State can refuse to recognize it.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Even so did Nicholas I. refuse to recognize Napoleon III. as Emperor of the French.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles