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Hans became somewhat alienated from his family after they refused to attend his wedding.
The soldiers feared an ambush and refused to enter the village.
In December of 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman from Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
The first film audiences in Hong Kong had to be paid to watch movies because the Chinese people were frightened of the "moving spirits" on the screen, and refused to enter the theater.
The deaths of some villagers after the eruption of the volcano was unavoidable, for the simple reason that these people absolutely refused to abandon their homes.
The man arrested for the attempted murder of a leading politician has been refused bail because the court is afraid he will try to leave the country.
After Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man in 1955, a city-wide boycott of buses in Montgomery, Alabama led to changes in the segregation policies in that city.
The student tried to bribe his English teacher into passing him, but the teacher refused and reported the incident to her supervisor.
The child clamped her lips together, and refused to speak.
The politician was a very combative man, and he refused to give up even when polls showed he was certain to lose the election.
For reasons of conscience, Pongkasem refused to enlist for military service.
The new office dress code failed miserably because the staff simply refused to cooperate.
In 1971, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices, but refused to resign.
The United Nations has refused to recognize the government of the military leader who took power in a bloody coup last month.
George Bernard Shaw was once invited to a gala vegetarian dinner, but he refused saying, "The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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