• Mrs Kelly said a refusal to sell alcohol to underage drinkers was often the cause of attacks.

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  • However, despite the chairman's refusal to sell up, McGruther agreed a rescue package with former Cowdenbeath owner Gordon McDougall and former Dumbarton chairman Rankine.

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  • But when he was hired, Khurana notes, he was criticized for his lack of vision, his refusal to sell divisions and for not making wholesale changes in management.

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  • During his two-year tenure, he ran into conflict with local banks that resulted in financial default for Cleveland over his refusal to sell the city's municipal electric utility.

    FORBES

  • Either that, or its refusal to sell its infrastructure stems from a desire to continue as a lumbering, dinosaur-like monopoly, and to put off having to face real competition for as long as possible.

    ECONOMIST: BT

  • The Russian refusal to budge has played well with supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has cast it as a refusal to bend to Western pressure or sell out friends.

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  • Last week Mr Jospin hit his first squall, when he was forced to sacrifice Air France's able Christian Blanc, who resigned as the airline's head in protest against the Communist transport minister's refusal to let him sell it off outright, as the previous government had planned.

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  • Mr Rutter claims he contacted Diaz's attorneys to offer them first refusal on the photographs before trying to sell them to the media.

    BBC: Diaz modelled before becoming an actress

  • And its stubborn refusal to renegotiate a wildly profitable contract binding Newfoundland Canada's poorest but most endearing province to sell it power at 1960s prices well into the new millennium also cost it friends, even in Quebec.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

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