But because we refused to back down, and kept fighting, we now stand on the verge of victory.
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We refused to stay invisible, to remain dehumanized as ghosts.
And we refused to let them go unanswered.
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The risk in Iraq is that despite good intentions, we'll become irritated and distracted and leave the job half-done, as we did after the first gulf war and after Afghanistan, when we refused to provide security outside Kabul.
"We both refused to admit that we had mental problems, " Carlos Arredondo said at the funeral.
When we have refused to accept the traditional frontiers but have gone beyond them, we have always found more fertile land.
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And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom.
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We all refused this proposal, because none of us knew about golf.
It has been pathetic that the president of the United States has traveled to Saudi Arabia and implored them to increase their production while we have refused to increase our own.
We also refused to do parades when ordered.
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Our problem is not his anonymity but that we have refused the precise warnings, delivered over more than a decade, of those who understood the nature of what was coming -- and of what is yet to come, which will undoubtedly be worse.
George Osborne was amongst those who said that that was precisely why he should not make it - the risk was that it would look like another British lecture to a club we'd refused to join.
"When I hear a call coming out that we have to go rescue someone who refused to evacuate, and we are sending volunteer firefighters, that is what makes you nuts, " said First Selectman Carl Fortuna.
If they refused, we would not give them the other things they really wanted.
The previous crew had served the passengers all the drinks we had, and catering refused to come back and restock anything.
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But when we turned up, they refused to speak to us on camera, despite having agreed to the interview some weeks before.
But the Kenyan authorities at the border - whether because of new security concerns or some local tussle we never found out - refused to let us proceed.
But how many of us have refused to acknowledge that we need help at some point in our lives?
Even though it worked well initially, it refused to launch after we plugged the phone into a computer to transfer files.
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We also know that Germany has repeatedly refused to embrace the euro bond approach.
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"It's now getting to the point where enough companies have been intimidated and have refused to transport animals that we can see a potential worldwide impact of having problems of transporting animals between labs that will massively impact on the collaborative nature of research and will slow research progress, " he said.
The outliers here are members of the Republican Party in Congress who have refused almost unanimously to acknowledge that we need to include revenues as part of a broader package.
Ms. MONTEROSE: We got a call because there were people who refused to leave.
This is a story we have seen many times before when reporters have refused to give up their sources.
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