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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.
Charlotte was very good at writing lists, but she refused to write any poems.
There were obviously financial sacrifices because he always refused to be paid.
But still, at this stage, with witnesses telling us that they'd seen police attack Ian Tomlinson before his death, still, police refused to accept that.
This man refused to fold to the conventions of normalcy and just decided to fold.
And many of those patients refused to undergo surgery to have people cut into their brain.
So, I acted like a two-year-old, and refused to work.
But just two weeks before that, the U.S. Senate refused to even debate the banning of BPA in babies' bottles and sippy cups.
Even in this state, what he accurately described as acutely and forwardly psychotic, I refused to take more medication.
Another time, she watched in horror as nurses watched a patient die because they refused to give her oxygen that they had.
While it's true that many who died in Katrina did not have access to transportation, others who did refused to leave as the storm approached, often because available transportation and shelters refused to allow them to take their pets.
They also refused.
No one's ever refused, and luckily no one's ever run off with our camera.
And one great example that you'll appreciate: During a snowstorm in Baltimore several years ago, the guy on our campus with this Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant literally came back to work in his lab after several days, and all these students had refused to leave the lab.
Because our business has refused to use science.
Luzhkov, 20 years mayor in Moscow, though he helped found a party, United Party with Putin, in fact refused to be defined by the party and finally, in fact, lost his job not under Brezhnev, not under Gorbachev, but under Putin, who wanted a more faithful party follower.
Intelligently placed and intelligently refused trust is the proper aim.
His friend refused to honor the request, and because of that, we now have all the works we now do by Kafka: "America," "The Trial" and "The Castle," a work so incomplete it even stops mid-sentence.
And the appraisers explained how it was occurring, that banks were demanding that appraisers inflate the appraisal, and that if the appraisers refused to do so, they, the banks, would blacklist honest appraisers and refuse to use them.
Greenspan and Bernanke refused to use the authority under the statute to stop liar's loans.
And Bob refused.
This was a protest campaign against Montgomery, Alabama's segregation on their public transit system, and it began when a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.
Finally, my father, an Algerian peasant's son turned professor, was forced to stop teaching at the university and to flee his apartment, but what I will never forget about Mahfoud Bennoune, my dad, was that like so many other Algerian intellectuals, he refused to leave the country and he continued to publish pointed criticisms, both of the fundamentalists and sometimes of the government they battled.
With the rise of jihadist violence, they began to receive threats to call off their events, which they refused to heed.
She refused to give up her studies, despite the fact that the fundamentalists battling the Algerian state back then threatened all who continued their education.
Bank manager refused to open the account of Kantabai.
Photo agencies in Gaza refused to train me because of my gender.
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