But instead, there was an absolute refusal to accept the notion that we needed revenue.
FARC's refusal to accept outside monitoring of a demilitarised (in practice, guerrilla-controlled) zone.
Arab refusal to accept Jewish rights to statehood has been accompanied by wars with the intent to annihilate Israel.
There is a certain nobility to Mr Nader's steady refusal to accept the argument that his votes somehow belong to someone else.
The killing was a reminder of the dissidents' nihilistic antipathy to politics and obtuse refusal to accept that the war is over.
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David Petraeus to the Senate about the impact of the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist on US-Arab relations.
The less-than-optimal response is continued full confidence in my original belief, and a refusal to accept the possibility that the new reality is true.
Some historians claim Churchill never forgave Dundonians for the snub - as shown by his refusal to accept the freedom of the city in 1943.
That distinction ignored and so legitimized Fatah's continued involvement in terrorism, its political war against Israel and its refusal to accept Israel's right to exist.
He characterized as "puzzling" the GOP refusal to accept his compromise.
In April, Zhu - and China - was humiliated while on a U.S. trip by his hosts' refusal to accept a WTO package he came with.
Until September, the government's policy was to politely delay as long as possible its ultimate polite refusal to accept US demands for more concessions to Palestinians.
On Sunday, Russia cut off gas to Ukraine, in response to Kiev's refusal to accept a fourfold price increase imposed in violation of an existing contract.
As for Netanyahu, 71 percent of Israeli Jews believe his refusal to accept Obama's demand to ban Jewish building in Jerusalem proves he is a strong leader.
Arab leaders have supported Mr Arafat's refusal to accept nothing less than full sovereignty of East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
We always like discovering businesses that go against the grain, and Mode-sty caught our attention because of its refusal to accept the status quo in the fashion world.
Senior government officials in Madrid argue that bailouts in Portugal, Greece and Ireland have been catastrophic and Spain will not compromise on its refusal to accept a similar form of intervention.
Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, who staked his future as a campaign-finance crusader on a refusal to accept soft money, defeated an opponent flush with dollars from the national Republican Party.
Germany was one of the first countries to recognise Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 and has been an outspoken critic of Belgrade's refusal to accept the split, he adds.
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The resolution came a day after the outgoing head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, expressed frustration at Iran's refusal to accept an international proposal to end the dispute over its nuclear programme.
Houchin was transferred to Lindholme open prison in May 2012 after winning a separate legal action over the Justice Secretary's refusal to accept the Parole Board's recommendation that he be returned to open conditions.
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On Sunday, Netanyahu acknowledged the suffering on both sides from the continuing Middle East conflict, but insisted the roots of the conflict came from the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist.
Moreover, in the face of significant international pressure, Hamas maintains its refusal to accept the so-called Quartet conditions of recognizing Israel, ending terrorism and agreeing to respect all previous agreements signed between the Palestinians and Israel.
"This violence is also about the poverty, the hunger, the disappointments in the society as much as it is with the refusal to accept the result of this election, " the CRC's Shehu Sani told the BBC.
But aside from their hypocrisy and refusal to accept simple arithmetic realities, what stands out most clearly in these leftist American Jews' assault on Walsh is how they have become addicted to the fable of the two-state solution.
This historically false, intuitively nutty assertion gave credence to the false Arab-Leftist narrative which argues that Israel's size, rather than the Arab world's refusal to accept a Jewish state in the Levant, is the cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Nirenstein's petition notes that in their anti-Israel diatribe, Levy and Finkielkraut ignore the fact that the absence of Middle East peace is due not to Israel's size but to the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist.
This decision may have allowed some additional registration, but it is clear that thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of voters have been disfranchised by new citizenship requirements, the displacement of farm labourers and the government's refusal to accept postal votes.
Whether they arrived in chauffeur-driven cars or whether they marched from Cairo's outlying shantytowns, the hundreds of thousands joined together in their refusal to accept a state that squashed the dreams of the revolution and dictated political, social, and religious behavior.
One measure of how effectively the incoming president and his crisis-management team have taken charge was their refusal to accept the Grand National Party's plan to place a new watchdog agency for supervising banks, securities firms and insurance companies under the Ministry of Finance.
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