Examples of using Refusing to perform in English and their translations into Spanish
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For refusing to perform elective cosmetic surgery.
Artists boycotted South Africa, refusing to perform there;
This resulted in many doctors refusing to perform abortions which, in practice, made entire hospitals off limits to abortion-seeking women.
Engaging in activities the law encourages or refusing to perform illegal activities.
The State party has not sufficiently shown that punishing the authors for refusing to perform military service for conscientious reasons and not providing them with the opportunity of an alternative service is a limitation of their right to manifest their belief as protected by article 18, paragraph 1, of the Covenant that is justified and necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others in accordance with paragraph 3 of said provision.
Each year, some 700 people were tried and imprisoned for refusing to perform military service.
The source affirms that the basic ground for the four men refusing to perform military service is their conscientious moral objection to the military occupation of the Palestine territories.
The submission stated that 12 Jehovah's Witnesses have been convicted for refusing to perform military service.
Although she knew of cases of individual doctors refusing to perform abortions, she had no specific information regarding the general situation and would provide a more coherent response later in writing.
It is reported that Saso Gjeorgiev, a Jehovah's Witness from Stip,was sentenced to 60 days imprisonment in November 1999 for refusing to perform military service.
The number of persons currently serving prison sentences for refusing to perform military service or an alternative service was about 40.
In its letter of 30 May 2003, the Armenian Government replied that, in the course of 2002,20 Jehovah's Witnesses had been sentenced by the courts and tribunals for refusing to perform military service.
Recently, there have been a number of cases of employees refusing to perform tasks they consider irresponsible.
Accurate statistics on young persons imprisoned for refusing to perform military or civil service and on the time frame for the enactment of the bill on alternative service would be useful.
Kazakstan: Two conscientious objectors, Nikolay Protsenko and Arbem Maloeyev,were both sentenced to terms of imprisonment for refusing to perform compulsory military service in 1995 and 1994 respectively.
The subject of the complaint was, inter alia,that in the Netherlands persons refusing to perform both military service and substitutes service are given a prison sentence while Jehovah's Witnesses are exempt from both military and substitutes service.
Furthermore, on 2 July 2002, Nikolai Shelekhov, a Jehovah's Witness, was allegedly sentenced for a second time to one anda half years in prison for refusing to perform military service because of his religious beliefs.
Communications referred, inter alia,to alleged imprisonment for refusing to perform compulsory military service on grounds of conscience.
AI also provided information that, as of the end of 2006, it considered 11 imprisoned conscientious objectors to military service to beprisoners of conscience and that most were serving 197 days for refusing to perform alternative civilian service.
An investigation had been conducted into the single case in which an individual had been imprisoned for refusing to perform military service without being offered some form of alternative service; as a result, that individual had been released.
The Committee regrets that due to this law,a number of persons belonging to the Jehovah's Witness have been repeatedly prosecuted and imprisoned for refusing to perform compulsory military service art.
Referring to the statistics given in the written replies,Mr. Shearer asked whether persons imprisoned for refusing to perform military served their sentences under the same conditions as other prisoners or were treated less harshly.
According to the information submitted by the source, Mr. Vepa Tuvakov and Mr. Mansur Masharipov, both citizens of Turkmenistan and members of the Jehovah's Witnesses,were arrested in May 2004 and charged with refusing to perform military service on religious grounds.
All 388 authors are Jehovah's Witnesses who have been sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment each for refusing to perform compulsory military service due to their religious beliefs.
On 11 April 2003, the Special Rapporteur informed the Armenian Government that he had information that Hambartsum Odabashyan, a Jehovah's Witness,had been sentenced on 1 April 2003 to three years of hard labour for refusing to perform military service owing to religious beliefs.
Doctors were often allegedly forced to carry out amputation or branding without anaesthesia and doctors refusing to perform such mutilation were reported to have been targeted for punishment.
In case No. 1786/2008(Kim et al. v. Republic of Korea),the authors were 388 Jehovah's Witnesses who had been sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment each for refusing to perform compulsory military service due to their religious beliefs.
The Special Rapporteur sent a letter dated 11 April 2003 to the Government of Serbia and Montenegro relating to information according to which Milan Gligoric,a Jehovah's Witness, sentenced on 12 December 2002 to a suspended prison term of four months for refusing to perform military service, was allegedly called up again by the army in February 2003, despite the constitutional guarantee of the right to conscientious objection.
You can refuse to perform a field sobriety test if asked.
Doctors refuse to perform“virginity-tests” on Muslim women Infibulation.