The United States also continued in the nineteen twenties to refuse to recognize the communist government in Moscow.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Southern supporters were afraid that if a statehood bill for California was passed first, then northerners would refuse to pass the other parts of the compromise.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Also,members could refuse to accept the court's right to try crimes of aggression.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

A free-rider might refuse to donate money but still enjoys watching the programs.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The women's group immediately called for all blacks in the city to refuse to ride on city buses on the day of Missus Parks's trial, Monday,December fifth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

These are some of its best known words: Give me your tired,your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

You give someone the cold shoulder when you refuse to speak to them.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

He demanded that first, the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state, something they refuse to do.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

South Korean officials in Seoul refuse to confirm or deny the reports.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But in case it does not work out and they refuse to lay down their arms and insist to continue their struggle for whatever reason,then the government is keeping the military option open,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"If we refuse to take into account the full costs of our fossil fuel addiction - if we don't factor in the environmental costs and the national security costs and the true economic costs - we will have missed our best chance to seize a clean energy future."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19