But he refused to do so. He said they were not in condition to fight, and he would not send them.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

He refused to believe reports that Lee had arrived on the battlefield with thirty thousand more southern soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

He had hoped his longtime business partner John Stark would publish it, but he refused.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

He felt so strongly about it, Joseph said,that he refused to wear any imported clothing.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

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

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Faulkner said that he refused to accept the end of the human race.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

If he refused to fight Spain, his Republican Party could lose popular support.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

But he refused to let it force him to do what others wished.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

He refused the other offers and signed on to play for Brooklyn.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

He refused to call a meeting of the state legislature.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

He refused to move to the back of a bus.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

And he refused to ask for advice from experts.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He refused to end the war and sell California.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

He refused and made his own choices.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

He learned in January,eighteen hundred forty-six, that Mexico had refused to negotiate with his representative.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The army refused. It told the commander to defend the forts as best he could.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

He said Tau Island men refused to marry women who had had sex.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

He also refused to continue paying for his education.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

He had refused to compromise on the issue.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

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 Fijian regime led by Commodore Bainimarama has conducted a military coup, he has violated the constitution, he has refused to hold elections and he's suspended the judiciary,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The state's Republican governor,Tim Pawlenty, widely seen as a potential presidential candidate, refused to certify Franken after the recount, saying that he would wait until the state Supreme Court had ruled.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30