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

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But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.

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He was known for being so stingy he refused to spend any of his money, unless forced to do so.

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When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe.

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

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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

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

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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

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

VOA: special.2010.06.03

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

VOA: special.2009.07.23

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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.28

In two thousand seven, Verizon refused to make it easier for an abortion rights group to send text messages to its supporters.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

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

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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.

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She was told that the United States was the only major nation that refused to join.

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She was arrested. Some popular stories about that incident include the statement that Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat because her feet were tired.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

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

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Northern states refused to permit slavery in the new territories of California and New Mexico.

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For example, a Denver newspaper reporter named Gene Fowler wrote that she survived a tornado as a baby, refused to attend school and chewed tobacco.

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

VOA: special.2009.02.19

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

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