Refused in example sentence

Then in December, officials in Democratic Republic of the Congo ordered an Internet shutdown the day before President Joseph Kabila was scheduled to leave office, thereby quashing online dissent when he refused to step down.

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The Sioux refused the money with the rallying cry, "The Black Hills are not for sale."

This oppression was so internalized, so deep-rooted, that she herself refused a choice.

She was taken to the hospital, but because she dressed in women's clothing, she was refused access to either the men's or the women's wards.

He stood on moral ground and refused to pay bribes.

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