He refused.Lincoln believed that starting an investigation would be like lighting a barrel of gunpowder.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Nine-eleven on the United States on September 11 2001] for example a moral law that refused to allow the statesmen to protect the community in times of crisis would not be a principle of natural right it would be a suicide note.

举，911，为例,一部道德法],拒绝允许政治家,在有危机时适切地保护其社群,那就不是自然权利的原则,而是部自杀式的批注。

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

VOA: special.2010.01.28

In the North,many young men refused to be drafted into the Union army.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

She refused to be defined by party politics or racial comparisons.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

They refused to be drafted.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Interviewed on the BBC, Mr.Major refused to be drawn on whether he thought that Mr.Blair deliberately misled the country when he took Britain to war.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

The balance is likely to be tipped by the Liberal Democrats, but so far their leader,Nick Clegg, has refused to say whether his party would side with the Conservatives or Labor.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Though the dig,along a paved highway that was constructed in recent years complicating the work of the anthropologists had yet to yield any results after four days,Elena and the dozen or so family members of presumed victims thought to be buried here have refused to give up hope.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18