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

VOA: special.2010.04.11

At first, Texas President Sam Houston refused the offer.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

One day,she refused the sexual demands of a man.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Britain refused the offer. The United States offered again.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

But other creditors have refused the terms.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Spain refused the offer.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

But the governor of the Riau Islands refused the boat permission to land.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The United States had refused to recognize the government in Moscow after the Bolsheviks took control in nineteen seventeen.

VOA: special.2011.04.28

But if the North refused a peaceful separation, then the South would be faced with the choice of surrender or fight.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Confederate leaders ordered the attack after President Abraham Lincoln refused to withdraw the small force of American soldiers at Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Brown was furious that the crowd outside had refused to honor his white flag of truce earlier in the day.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

If any boat carrying troops refused to stop, the state soldiers were to sink it and seize the fort.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

It was a party of protest, formed by men who refused to support either of the two old parties.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

They refused to trust even Japanese-American families who had lived in the United States for more than a century.

VOA: special.2011.06.30

Many whites refused to accept the fact that most free negroes did not want to go to Africa.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

But Johnson refused to stand aside in the face of radical attempts to seize all powers of government.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The Ford Motor Company refused government aid and is working to become profitable again by two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

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

VOA: special.2009.09.24

The second group did not. But some medical researchers refused to accept that a poor diet caused pellagra.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

First,they refused to let many of the recently elected southern congressmen take their seats when Congress opened.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

She remembers that the man operating the device at first refused to accept her material.

VOA: special.2010.02.09