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Regardless, England needed a new queen to ensure stability, but the Pope refused to annul the union and let the king remarry.
Of course, Sisyphus refused to keep his promise, now having twice escaped death by tricking the gods.
I refused.
One kid saw a bullet put in his grandmother's head, because she refused to let the rebels take him to be a child soldier.
He refused to be who he was.
We had one synagogue that flat-out refused to participate because it feared drawing attention to itself and becoming a target.
In the 1930s, when Congress was discussing the labor laws that would be a part of the New Deal, that would protect all workers, Southern members of Congress refused to support those labor laws if they included protections for domestic workers and farmworkers.
And she refused any help at all.
They all refused.
But Milk refused to downplay his sexuality.
And when the White House cracked down on so-called "undocumented migrants" in sanctuary cities, hundreds of cities and counties and states sat up in defiance and refused to enact that order.
He refused to be provoked by petty grievances.
On the day of the march, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a ground-breaking investigative journalist and anti-lynching advocate, refused to move to the back and proudly marched under the Illinois banner.
In the case of the Greenland Norse, cultural factors that made it difficult for them to solve their problems were: their commitments to a Christian society investing heavily in cathedrals; their being a competitive-ranked chiefly society; and their scorn for the Inuit, from whom they refused to learn.
Facebook has these answers, and it's refused to give them to us.
And every single time, he's refused.
You see, we'd just been to the grocery store, and my mom refused to buy us the jar of Ovaltine that had the coupon for the Captain Midnight decoder ring in it.
Well, what happened next electrified animal lovers across the world, because Tahlequah refused to let her baby slip off into the water.
My mother and I pleaded with him to please just pull over and ask someone for directions back to the highway, and he absolutely refused, and, in fact, assured us that we were not lost, he had just always wanted to know what was over here.
Noor refused to give away any information, focusing instead on her escape.
She paid a high price for her activism, because the day-labor agencies like Ron's blackballed her and refused to give her work.
The guy started to cry all day, he refused to get out of bed, he developed all the symptoms of classic depression.
Despite a grueling interrogation, the two refused to betray their co-conspirators.
But Ilmarinen refused to go to the gloomy North— a land of witches and man-eaters.
But when Ilmarinen tried to claim his prize, the promised maiden refused to marry him, and the smith had to return home alone.
The bard refused, knowing the dangers of celebrating too early.
But they refused, and instead, they turned me over to CBP officials, where I was forced back into the United States.
But the man refused their offer— he wouldn’t entrust his son to those who passed judgment on human life.
But the victim refused to press charges because she claimed that law enforcement had permanently altered her memory through the use of Frederick's photograph.
People had become dependent on the compound, and the few who refused it formed a resistance to try to fix things.
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