As legend has it, a reporter once confronted him in the river and refused to let him get out and dress until he'd given her an exclusive interview.
His mother, correctly deducing that her son was becoming a code geek, made him learn French and hang out with the jocks, and refused to let him skip a grade.
He attacked Brown in the press and refused to provide him with an AC generator.
Uefa president Michel Platini is against Blatter's proposal and refused to accompany him to the EU headquarters last week to push forward the plan's merits.
But Lutz and other stockholders refused to buy him out at that price, and GM wouldn't buy him out, either.
But the electoral tribunal disagrees, and has refused to strike him from its lists.
He perfected a highly annoying smile of condescension when faced with toys or games that other boys owned but Patty and Walter refused to buy him.
British prosecutors named Mr Lugovoi as the main suspect but he was later elected as a Russian MP and Moscow refused to send him to the UK for questioning.
But the Bulls and Sarfu, who Botha is also contracted to, have refused to release him and are preventing him from moving abroad.
Police again ordered him to drop his weapon, he again refused, and police shot and killed him.
However, at the last moment Joseph's nerve failed him and he refused to run.
But the settlers uprooted his crops and the police refused to help him, he said.
Since Mr Blagojevich was arrested last month, he has persistently denied the charges against him and has refused to resign.
Zidane, who has since retired from football, has never specified what Materazzi said to him and has refused to apologise to his opponent.
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Or Mr Yanukovich could be driven by the desire for revenge on Mr Kuchma, who has often humiliated him and who refused to use force to stop the orange uprising in 2004.
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The Presbyterians accused him of heresy and revoked his license, but the Congregationalists refused to ordain him as a minister.
Police negotiators agreed to deliver fried chicken and cola to him as he refused to leave the roof.
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The Coalition refused his resignation and has asked him to keep his job.
The immediate reason was that Mr Montesinos's tourist visa was about to expire, and that Panama had refused to grant him either residence or political asylum.
But when Romney tried to correct the record on this point at the debate, Crowley just shouted him down, and refused to let the audience hear his answer.
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This month, Yasushi Akashi, a special envoy from Japan, had to cancel a planned peace mission to Sri Lanka when Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' elusive and ruthless supremo, refused to meet him.
Citi, which usually cooperates in arranging meetings with leading analysts and the institutional investors who work with them, refused to meet with Mayo for several years. and froze him out on conference calls.
But Imad Ibn Ziaten refused, facing his killer and telling him.
In his books "It's Only Temporary, " and "Time on Fire, " Handler wrote that during his months in the hospital, he was given intravenous drugs that were supposed to go to another patient, that nurses tried to give him medications his doctors had forbidden for him and that staff members refused to follow the hospital's posted hygiene precautions for immunosuppressed patients like himself.
He was arrested when the case file was reviewed by the Historical Enquiries Team but during police interviews he made a brief statement denying involvement and then refused to answer any questions put to him.
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Nearly a year ago, on 1 December, the then head of the UN peacekeeping mission, Young-Jin Choi, had a private one-hour discussion with Mr Gbagbo and warned him of the consequences if he refused to accept the outcome of the presidential election held three days earlier.
He has said he is innocent of the charges and has refused to resign his seat in Congress - a move that would have spared him from the impeachment proceedings and a possible eight-year ban.
Lozman says the city refused to cash his checks and was retaliating against him for his political activism.
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Then Saddam himself refused to sit down and the new judge ejected him.
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