But his party officials have refusedtoletgo of the man who has kept the party's flag flying high, in one of the only three Indian states where the left has a strong presence.
An elaborate plan to patch up the quarrel collapsed when Mr Netanyahu's prideful coalition partners refusedtolet him go beyond expressing regret and offer a formal apology.
She was a drifter, moving in a miasma of angry despair in and out of speakeasies and other people's beds because her father had refusedtolet her goto college, even though she'd won a full scholarship to Sarah Lawrence, and even though he would certainly have let her brother go.