Word Finder - refuses

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To decline (a request or demand).

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My request for a pay rise was refused.

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To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

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I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.

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To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

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to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks

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To disown.

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To melt again.

He refuses to accept that fact.

She can't eat food, but she refuses to admit it to herself, Han explained to Pierre.

And if Alex refuses the inheritance?

Another 20,000 are being drip fed mutagenic and carcinogenic chemicals from their tube wells, whilst Dow refuses to clean up.

Howie refuses to leave without taking all those machines with him.

Rissa refuses to free him.

I believe Damian has a Hunter among his men, but the White God refuses to speak to me anymore.

I feel my body weakening - -it refuses to heal me this time, now that it's chosen its successor, as my father said it would!

When a debtor tenders the amount due to his creditor and the creditor refuses to accept, the debt is not discharged, but if the debtor is subsequently sued for the debt and continues willing and ready to pay, and pays the amount tendered into court, he can recover his costs in the action.

When too heavily laden the camel refuses to rise, but on the march it is exceedingly patient under its burden, only yielding beneath it to die.

If, however, the precipitate refuses to settle, it is directly transferred to the filter paper, the last traces being removed by washing and rubbing the sides of the vessel with a piece of rubber, and the liquid is allowed to drain through.

After thirty years' absence, he returns to his home in Italy; his son Hadubrand, believing his father to be dead, suspects treachery and refuses to accept presents offered by the father in token of good-will.

Thus he refuses to recognize Nero in the beast and its number.

Even the resultant of mechanical forces refuses to resolve itself into its constituents.

Section 5 provides that where a reference is to be to a single arbitrator, and all the parties do not concur in appointing one, or an appointed arbitrator refuses to act or becomes incapable of acting, or where the parties or two arbitrators fail, when necessary, to appoint an umpire or third arbitrator, or such umpire or arbitrator when appointed refuses to act, or becomes incapable of acting, and the default is not rectified after seven clear days' notice, the court may supply the vacancy.

Under section 6, where a reference is to two arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party, and either the appointed arbitrator refuses to act, or becomes incapable of acting, and the party appointing him fails, after seven clear days' notice, to supply the vacancy, or such party fails, after similar notice, to make an original appointment, a binding appointment (subject to the power of the court to set it aside) may be made by the other party to the reference.

In each case the people thought themselves to be worshipping Yahweh under the title of Molech or Baal; but the prophet refuses to admit that this is so, because the worship itself is an apostasy to heathenism.

Ultimately, while assisting his brother-in-law in an intrigue with the wife of a neighbouring knight, Tristan is wounded by a poisoned arrow; unable to find healing, and being near to death, he sends a messenger to bring Queen Iseult to his aid; if successful the ship which brings her is to have a white sail, if she refuses to come, a black.

If the membrane is of some impermeable substance, like gold leaf, the hyphae cannot dissolve its way through, but the tip finds the most minute pore and traverses the barrier by means of it, as it does a stoma on a leaf, We may hence conclude that a parasitic hyphae pierces some plants or their stomata and refuses to enter others, because in the former case there are chemotropically attractive substances present which are absent from the latter, or are there replaced by repellent poisonous or protective substances such as enzymes or antitoxins.

Jesus also refuses to conform to the current ideas as to the establishment of the kingdom.

A "non-support law," which went into effect in 1906, enacts that a man who refuses to provide for his family when able to do so shall be committed to the workhouse for hard labour, and that fifty cents a day shall be paid to his family.

Agamemnon sends an embassy by night, offering Achilles restitution and full amends - Achilles refuses.

In 1672 Saint-Mars proposes - the significance of this action is discussed later - to allow Dauger to act as "valet" to Lauzun; Louvois firmly refuses, but in 1675 allows him to be employed as valet to Fouquet, and he impresses upon Saint-Mars the importance of nobody learning about Dauger's "past."

Frequently this is sufficient; but if the stomach refuses to eject its objectionable contents, we may either give an emetic or wash it out by means of a stomach-pump or siphon.

Ngeli (Der Wortschatz des Apostels Paulus, 1905, pp. 85 seq.), whose opinion is all the more significant on this point that he refuses to admit any linguistic features adverse to the Pauline authorship of the other epistles.

She offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece; he refuses to go, but bids Pylades take the letter while he himself will stay and be slain.

The aim of philosophy (whether fully attainable or not) is to exhibit the universe as a rational system in the harmony of all its parts; and accordingly the philosopher refuses to consider the parts out of their relation to the whole whose parts they are.

A husband who wilfully abandons his wife, leaving her destitute, or who refuses to support her when he is able to do so, may be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding one year or in the county jail or workhouse not more than six months nor less than fifteen days, and for ten days, in the discretion of the judge, he may be kept on a bread and water diet.

To the atheist alone Locke refuses full toleration, on the ground that social obligation can have no hold over him, for " the taking away of God dissolves all."

Petrarch refuses to believe that any good thing can come out of Arabia, and speaks of Averroes as a mad dog barking against the church.

Mannhardt, who by comparing numerous examples of similar customs among other European peoples arrived at the conclusion that the rite was of extreme antiquity and of dramatic rather than sacrificial character, and that its object was possibly to procure rain; (2) that of Wissowa, who refuses to date it farther back than the latter half of the 3rd century B.C., and sees in it the yearly representation of an original sacrifice of twentyseven captive Greeks (taking Argei as a Latin form of 'Ap-yE701) by drowning in the Tiber.

After 66 years'exile Jeremiah brings back the Jews to Jerusalem, but refuses to admit such as had brought with them heathen wives.

It may take a while, but she shouldn't have any real difficulty having her husband declared dead—but she refuses to sue.

Even better, Lane Fox refuses to be shy about his own predilections.

When it jams, a red warning light normally comes on in the cockpit and the rear active aero also refuses to operate.

The Home Office letter obstinately refuses to delete the effect leaving only " purpose " as proposed by the noble baroness, Lady Miller.

Continue reading " American billionaire Robert Kraft refuses to rule out investment in Liverpool.

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Lexie refuses to take any notice of Julie's strong disapproval of her attitude to Jessie.

He gets so finicky over such irrelevant things, he tells yet more blatant lies and refuses to accept what he has done.

Annie begs Gilbert to spare Peter's life, but he refuses, consumed by jealousy and suspicion that Annie still loves Peter.

It refuses even to discuss the beating to death of hundreds of thousands of baby joeys as it knows it is indefensible.

If the employer refuses they must explain why in writing and give objectively justifiable reasons.

The singer Bryan Adams refuses to eat milk or cheese or any other animal product, as do k or cheese or any other animal product, as do k d lang and Moby.

Ben refuses to wear a kilt to the ceremony.

Perhaps it's her military upbringing, one of her friends suggests, but she refuses to let naysayers get their way.

One week into rehearsals the bank refuses to extend the overdraft any longer.

If the person disputing parentage refuses to take a test, the Child Support Agency can treat them as the child's parent.

Smith refuses to become a keeper of sacred relics -- the living interpreter of his own back catalog.

He saves us that we might worship Him, but Pharaoh refuses the request.