"I think the process was very bad, but the process was really caused in large measure by the refusal of Republicans to deal in any way,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

What do we need of them? We are the gods now!" This disobedience this refusal to bow down in grateful prayer does not sit well up on Olympus.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

The refusal of Pakistan's President Asif Zardari to reinstate Chaudhry is a key issue driving the protest, in advance of which the government has arrested hundreds of lawyers, opposition politicians and activists.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The leaders are under pressure to achieve a breakthrough before the EU summit in December, when Turkey could be sanctioned for its refusal to open its ports and airports to Cypriot traffic.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25