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

VOA: special.2011.04.28

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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.01

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

VOA: special.2010.05.18

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

VOA: special.2009.09.24

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

VOA: special.2010.01.21

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

VOA: special.2009.07.26

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

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

VOA: special.2010.02.09

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

VOA: special.2009.07.23

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

VOA: special.2009.03.26

But border states those between the North and the South refused to send any.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

When the secretary of war refused to sign the order, President Taylor answered sharply.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

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

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Northern Democrats refused. The opposition Republican Party expected to gain votes from dissatisfied Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

You refused the offer of great riches to keep the babies with you.

VOA: special.2009.02.28