He refused.Lincoln believed that starting an investigation would be like lighting a barrel of gunpowder.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

But the senator from Kansas still refused to say what his vote would be.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

In the North,many young men refused to be drafted into the Union army.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

She refused to be defined by party politics or racial comparisons.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

They refused to be drafted.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Interviewed on the BBC, Mr.Major refused to be drawn on whether he thought that Mr.Blair deliberately misled the country when he took Britain to war.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

The balance is likely to be tipped by the Liberal Democrats, but so far their leader,Nick Clegg, has refused to say whether his party would side with the Conservatives or Labor.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Though the dig,along a paved highway that was constructed in recent years complicating the work of the anthropologists had yet to yield any results after four days,Elena and the dozen or so family members of presumed victims thought to be buried here have refused to give up hope.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18