Use "refusal" in a sentence

1. It was barely even enough to be called a refusal, but she grabbed him by his exosuit’s front panel, swing him in an arc over her head, and threw him down through the open bridge hatch

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2. Her flat refusal made me think for a while but I guess it's anybody's right to choose the godmothers of their children

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3. Your refusal of me makes it a little harder to be good friends with Desa

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4. with the silence that comes from sheer bloody refusal,

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5. My personality at the time was being fueled by religious fanaticism and a refusal to sleep made it a more serious case

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6. She was embarrassed by his embarrassment, and seemed insulted by his refusal

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7. There was but one who insisted to press their intentions even to the extreme of knife-point, but he instantly surrendered his cause and forfeited their case at my gentle but firm insistent refusal

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8. Despite his refusal, Emily poured her energy into the cracks upon Solo Ki's swelling hands

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9. For a refusal this time could well mean the end

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10. Before the Guild Master could say anything more in refusal, he was struck by a blow from behind

11. A writer may experience a tragic loss, and his refusal to accept the loss might result in a life of tortured but beautiful prose as he tries to work through his pain through writing

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12. I saluted him and he stared at me with my refusal ringing in his ears and then he shrugged and then took Captain Melstone to one side to discuss something

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13. Pamela remembered her refusal to take a dress she had

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14. Frank had been badly hurt by her refusal to marry him and it had shown

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15. She was like a child who couldn't be refused because she wouldn't accept refusal

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16. If the colonies, notwithstanding their refusal to submit to British taxes, are still to be considered as provinces of the British empire, their defence, in some future war, may cost Great Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war

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17. Again she attempted a polite refusal, but the woman heckled her into submission

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18. Carl had tried to console Adem many times since Jean’s refusal to marry him, though Adem did not want to hear Carl’s attempted rationale of why it was ‘probably for the best

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19. Witness his refusal to bring to justice Black Panther thugs who intimidated white voters in the 2008 election

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20. Ten seconds, Zolla announced, as Jimmy’s pounding heart seemed to will his body to shake in refusal to comply

21. An obvious impossibility, and beware if you don"t want to live there, because your refusal will 167

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22. ‘No,’ he said, more as a denial than a refusal

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23. Monique had volunteered to infiltrate the compound, although she expected the refusal

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24. Amaranthe had expected refusal or reluctance but not that statement

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25. Governor Maxwell reminded the King of his direct refusal to the ultimatums dispatched to him; further, that he sent Envoys to England, in direct opposition to orders; for they were told that all negotiations must be made to the Governor on the coast

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26. She almost injured herself laughing, before becoming concerned by my unhealthy wheezing and red face, and blunt refusal to get up from the floor for the next ten minutes

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27. My research also tells me that refusal from the man meant he had to buy her twelve pairs of gloves to hide her empty (of a ring) finger or a new dress

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28. Despite these reinforcements, Toral, that afternoon, sent out a defiant letter to Shafter, stating that he could sustain a long siege, and reiterated his refusal to surrender, save with a safe conduct for his army with full honours

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29. Thesa shuddered at the pain that his friends must have suffered because of his refusal to submit

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30. A combination of ego, stubbornness, a determination not to appear weak, macho bluster, and simple refusal to face reality trapped both presidents

31. “So, what brings you to Costa Rica?” he queried, shrugging his shoulders at her refusal, then pinched the joint between fingertips studying, first it, then her, before sucking in another drag

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32. He was informed that refusal wasn’t an option

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33. This is why owning your refusal to forgive is the best way to

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34. Enrique Segovia, he claimed, was one of the persons responsible for the court’s refusal to hear his request for bail: a little fine-tuning with piano wire was exactly what he needed

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35. He put one into his mouth and proffered one to Ethan as well, who politely nodded his refusal, the grin unwaveringly attached on his tanned face

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36. The refusal of many federal employees

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37. Not his refusal, which Eric might have accepted

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38. The models, the baselines, data gathering, conflicts of interest because of grants, and refusal to tolerate the views of others, brought to mind The Inquisition, and the

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39. For years it was a symbol of my quiet defiance, my small refusal to be an obedient, deferent Abnegation child, and a symbol of my mother’s defiance too, even though I believed she was dead

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40. She felt that her refusal would disappoint him considerably, but she did not think it would altogether overwhelm him

41. Had he asked Rosemary to marry him? And after what fashion had she made her refusal known? Ellen felt that she would never know this, though she was quite curious

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42. She must just be content with the fact of the refusal

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43. She wrote him the stiffest, coolest little refusal imaginable

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44. investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing; the FBI’s stonewalling and refusal to

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45. People with mental disorders often internalize their rejection or refusal expectations, and the

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46. Once, when she mentioned to Daniel about Aunt Beryl’s refusal to use her own front door, and that she had been looking for an Obeah person to put a protection spell over it, Daniel had accused her aunt of playing with fire

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47. Haman was incensed when he heard of Mordicai’s refusal to pay homage to him,

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48. Most people abroad interpreted this refusal as an arrogant,

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49. Little was said, even by his stumbling Republican opponent, of Obama’s lifelong radical left associations, of his refusal to reveal his Harvard Law School records, or the effect of his twenty years absorbing the hate America ranting of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s “God DAMN America” Trinity United Church

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50. refusal to see the snake in the rope is the necessary condition

51. There is no desire for it, nor refusal

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52. M: No, it means refusal and rejection of the incomplete and the-

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53. there is only one meditation — the rigorous refusal to harbour

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54. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions

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55. It is your refusal to examine that

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56. Love is the refusal to separate, to make distinctions

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57. Our problems such as addiction and crime are due to our simple refusal to start at the beginning

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58. mounting a court challenge to the RCMP's refusal to charge high-ranking bureaucrats

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59. He had prepared himself to counter obvious reasons that would include refusal by Ramasamy’s wife

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60. over its alleged failure to treat his ailments and its alleged refusal to inform him

61. I accepted immediately, but recalling Dixie’s previous refusal to even travel to Chicago with me re the HFC job, I told Ralph that my wife would have to go to Chicago and meet him and his wife before she would agree

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62. question of whether they should abandon their long-standing refusal to back Democratic Paty candidates

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63. Rather than your having raped my son by trickery, it is more true to say that since he did not heed your refusal, he was about to rape you, though you would not have considered it such

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64. his refusal or inability to begin the road to recovery from addiction

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65. She gave her head a tiny shake of refusal

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66. frustrated with her refusal to have sex with him

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67. He had approached people and families that owned the kind of property he was looking for, and, in particular, became friends with one older gentleman which assured, when the gentleman died in the mid-1950s, that a first right of refusal had been made part of his will

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68. Crucial was his refusal to react when competition moved into our markets

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69. Her refusal was instinctive but, even before its echo had died away, she sensed her resolve vanishing

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70. He’d wanted to live and, no matter what Gelahn said, Simon knew that refusal meant nothing but death

71. We had to send them back, along with pleasant little notes explaining our refusal

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72. She had to accept their refusal, and rely on the help they

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73. “After each refusal a different calamity has been visited upon the land and the people

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74. It was the tenth time, while this young man, Youssaf I think Pharaoh called you, was there when I warned him that his firstborn son would surely die as a result of his latest refusal

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75. warned him that his firstborn son would surely die as a result of his latest refusal

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76. He refused and I told him refusal was not an option

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77. “Really? You can sit here now and tell me, with honesty in your heart and in spite of your dreams last night, that the Lord of the Lammas Lands would have brooked a refusal from you and let you live? You could have walked away from his bed and still continued to serve him, unharmed and whole?”

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78. monotonous tone emphasised by his refusal to look up from the

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79. Still, I am glad for their refusal as their pleading cries were far more entertaining in the end

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80. Luca’s reaction expresses the refusal to keep accepting this maternal

81. the mother and a refusal of the mother, because this relationship cannot be

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82. A refusal to lift the veil is synonymous to a negation of reality and to an

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83. - The refusal to leave the maternal womb

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84. It had been Metaxas’ refusal to bow to the Italian dictator and his fervent "NO!" that created a Greek hero in 1940

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85. ” What WE can learn from the refusal to adopt this Project Management lesson, is

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86. wisdom, its acceptance and refusal, all come from interacting

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87. do, and she could feel a scream of refusal rise in her throat

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88. My refusal didn’t deter them from opening half a dozen bottles with their teeth and downing them in quick succession, laughing and joking at the expense of wogs, women and queers

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89. When he finally realised I wasn’t an Arab, had understood nothing, and my abbreviated swimwear didn't mean I was touting for business on his patch, he calmed down and in sexily accented English asked if I would like to be fucked for five dirhams, shaking his head in disbelief at my refusal

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