Britain refused again. Finally,President Grover Cleveland asked the United States Congress to appoint a committee to decide the border.
VOA: special.2010.07.08
The position of Secretary of State went to James Blaine, who had refused his party's requests to run for president.
VOA: special.2010.05.27
The United States had refused to recognize the government in Moscow after the Bolsheviks took control in nineteen seventeen.
VOA: special.2011.04.28
But if the North refused a peaceful separation, then the South would be faced with the choice of surrender or fight.
VOA: special.2009.03.26
But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.
VOA: special.2009.11.15
He was known for being so stingy he refused to spend any of his money, unless forced to do so.
VOA: special.2009.10.11
When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe.
VOA: special.2009.02.14
Confederate leaders ordered the attack after President Abraham Lincoln refused to withdraw the small force of American soldiers at Sumter.
VOA: special.2009.08.13
But he refused to do so. He said they were not in condition to fight, and he would not send them.
VOA: special.2009.09.24
Brown was furious that the crowd outside had refused to honor his white flag of truce earlier in the day.
VOA: special.2009.06.25
They refused to trust even Japanese-American families who had lived in the United States for more than a century.
VOA: special.2011.06.30
It was a party of protest, formed by men who refused to support either of the two old parties.
VOA: special.2010.06.03
If any boat carrying troops refused to stop, the state soldiers were to sink it and seize the fort.
VOA: special.2009.07.23
Many whites refused to accept the fact that most free negroes did not want to go to Africa.
VOA: special.2009.04.16
But Johnson refused to stand aside in the face of radical attempts to seize all powers of government.
VOA: special.2010.01.28
The Ford Motor Company refused government aid and is working to become profitable again by two thousand eleven.
VOA: special.2010.01.01
In two thousand seven, Verizon refused to make it easier for an abortion rights group to send text messages to its supporters.
VOA: special.2009.09.25
He refused to believe reports that Lee had arrived on the battlefield with thirty thousand more southern soldiers.
VOA: special.2009.09.24
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