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Example sentences for: refuses

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George W. Bush, anointed, refuses to campaign for president till summer arrives.
If Rehnquist refuses the stay, it's likely that Clinton lawyer/confidant Bruce Lindsey will have to testify, too.
Still, let me tell you my story: I am a father-in-law who gets along nicely--I thought--with his daughter and her husband, but who refuses to enter their apartment because they have hung a lewd picture of themselves, er, copulating in the living room.
One Islamic military group still refuses to budge.
Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.