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Example sentences for: refused

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This 17th-century building was constructed by Governor Samuel Day, who arrived from England, found the old governor’s house in disrepair, and built this house using government land and government wood — yet he refused to hand over the house when he was ousted from office after only two years.
But the Bronx alone refused, saying that Legal Services lawyers might be forced to answer to LSNY's funders rather than focus exclusively on their clients' interests.
But the sheik refused to rule out further Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, saying that "if Israel attacks us, the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves."
It said that the Blair administration behaved with "scrupulous correctness" when it refused to interfere in the judicial process.
Radical feminist scholar Mary Daly refused to let two male students enroll in her Boston College introductory course on feminist ethics.