The army refused to accept orders from the political leadership.

军队拒绝接受政界领导的命令。

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The army apparently refused point-blank to do what was required of them.

军方显然直截了当地拒绝了对他们提出的要求。

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In 2005 the German federal administrative court ruled in favour of an army major who had refused to obey an order in case it implicated him in the Iraq war.

2005年，德国联邦行政法院对一名陆军少校拒绝服从前往伊拉克前线的命令的行为投出了赞同票。

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

VOA: special.2009.07.23

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

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Robert Charles, chief of staff and general counsel to the House National Security Committee, wrote Cohen last July after the Army refused to grant a burial site for his father, Roland W. Charles Jr.

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The former president of Republika Srpska, head of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) and commander of the Bosnian Serb Army has refused to enter pleas, but says he will co-operate with the court to prove his innocence.

BBC: Karadzic boycotts start of trial

This has been suspended for the past year, principally because the Irish Republican Army (IRA) refused to announce a definitive end to its long war against British rule in Northern Ireland (see table below).

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