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1. rather than by knowledge of stomach contractions, glucose level or other internal criteria and therefore having the courage to refuse food that is not desirable
2. Sarah and her husband, Travis, still go by the names “Jesse” and “Lucinda” but they refuse to speak with me after I took care of the remains of their child
3. Stumbling with two buckets full of putrescent refuse, the boy tossed the wet feces onto the head of the ballista
4. One has to highlight the rules of God about what is right and what is wrong in respect of serious problems like drugs, alcohol, pre-marital sex etc so that they can have the moral courage to refuse on their own
5. From her picture, not a woman men refuse
6. If we refuse submitting to the laws of life, it is natural that we are
7. refuse medical treatment and prescription drugs, you should be absolutely
8. Here and there a mound of garbage rots in the bright sunshine, while feral cats paw through the refuse
9. She was confident that once he was actually running, he would be just as quick as she was to refuse to go back out
10. When he offered to give me a ride to St Tryfon in his car, I just couldn't refuse
11. I automatically refuse and tell him I will call him back, but I don't intend to do anything like that; I don't trust him, anyway
12. Every time we went to the beach he would suggest it was time he taught me to swim and I'd refuse to move
13. I was honoured and although not normally a drinker, I could hardly refuse
14. Trying to hide my surprise, I undress, the woman – whose name is Lonna - helping me take off my boots as my joints refuse to bend that far
15. You are going to enjoy yourself for a few days young woman, do you hear?” She was smiling at her so sweetly that she couldn’t refuse her
16. After all you did, how could I possibly refuse?”
17. “The fools still refuse to believe that their technology will not work on this planet
18. ‘You’ll just have to put up with me with a day’s growth then – I refuse to shave in cold water, Sally!’
19. Jane casually drops into the conversation that the cake will be delivered on Tuesday morning – I’d completely forgotten about a wedding cake … how could I have forgotten that! Peter and Jane insist that they will foot the bill for the alcohol and although Simon does his best to shout them down, they are adamant and refuse to budge
20. The cleaning takes all morning, partly because I keep stopping to drink some water … I’m feeling bloody minded and refuse to take painkillers for the headache I am convinced had its origins in that bottle of wine
21. Ava was glad to know that what Yellelle told her was true and the girl had the right to refuse bids
22. could I possibly refuse?”
23. She tried to convince Ro that she should refuse her father’s request, but she would not
24. “If a leads to b and then c, don’t refuse her
25. here place, and never return! If you refuse, there
26. The Kassikan could refuse him admission to the grounds if it came to that, evict him from his quarters and lock him outside the gates
27. At the traffic lights by the entrance to the hospital Billy intends to hang a left so that he can be with Bex, but as much as he thinks about indicating and joining the filter lane his hands refuse to obey and he heads straight on into town
28. “I refuse to answer that question for fear of incriminating myself!” Matt replied, his smile growing wider
29. “I don’t know, what’s that?” He really should refuse, he’d been out of contact too long already, even if it was going into sleep shift up there
30. streets were no longer cobbled, and refuse was littered
31. Sometimes she's trying to convince me to be the same with her, but I always refuse so she always says that she doesn't want to go out with me
32. prisoners Henri would not be in a position to refuse to
33. "You can't us it then –" she insisted, "I refuse to let it affect Jim's property
34. became harder to refuse the kind offers of the play leader
35. "I think once Nidon hears what happened this past Nightday, he'll refuse their trade even without your aluminum
36. He had to use his own torch to travel these passages, they were musty and full of refuse
37. “I can refuse you nothing,” replied he, “that is just and reasonable
38. If you refuse, I swear that I shall have your head
39. In an area cleared of refuse the partially stripped hulk of a fine old machine lay exposed
40. altogether discretionary in the parish officers either to grant or to refuse it
41. She hoped that she was out from under suspicion, but maybe all she had really done in his mind was refuse to confess
42. It was in no condition to refuse anything to the country gentlemen, from whom it was, at that very time, soliciting the first establishment of the annual land-tax,
43. Sam could hardly refuse and drank the odious combination of carrot, cauliflower and spring onion with crushed cloves and garlic
44. "I refuse to fail," he stated before turning away to once more watch the roots of the One Tree blacken
45. If not, he would be forced to connect directly with the Tree, wherein it would no doubt refuse his request to leave – perhaps for eternity
46. It devoured children who refuse to obey their elders
47. What if he did refuse this pill? No doubt they could take another few minutes and put it in some kind of virus and waft it into the air
48. With great sorrow, he accepted the fact that he could no longer refuse Sevron’s call
49. After tonight, I didn’t think it would be a good idea to refuse
50. Without any hesitation she had confronted Zarko with a proposal that he just couldn’t refuse: as they had each secretly had a crush on him since puberty, they’d also wanted their first time to be with him
1. There eventually came a time when the pirates refused to take Tiny Robot Archimedes into colder waters, mostly due to it being winter and their having an unwillingness to die
2. They refused to comment further, saying that they have no observation to make as to why he should have said such a thing
3. easier for those people, who have already been refused by the doctors, as
4. I'll confess that when you refused that bit of work I offered you that I did take things into my own hands, just as I said I would
5. He refused to let me carry it
6. She was becoming more of a mystery to me and she still refused to disclose the reasons why our bank account was so short of money
7. Inflexible - Pharaoh refused to follow God’s directions
8. He understood what was being requested but he refused
9. He refused to examine the God Jehovah that Moses and Aaron said commanded their
10. Was offended at God’s Word - Refused to acknowledge that he should do what
11. My bowels refused to play ball
12. I refused to eat
13. I refused, of course
14. Naturally, I refused to explain in class what and how
15. After an hour or so Mrs Stavrakis appears again and tells me that “Parissis is talking about you all the time! She is furious at you! She is always accusing you of everything! She is even claiming you have refused to type some entries about ''Christianity'' for her!”
16. He refused to take our hands
17. The doctors refused to discharge me to the hotel
18. old hunter refused to take payment for his services
19. vehemently refused to the marriage as she visualized her
20. They had refused to believe what they were seeing
21. Refused so completely that the data showed no city here, just jungle-covered ruins
22. He was one who offered to share his space with her, one she might not have refused
23. Kirk and Ruby refused to tell anyone anything other than that they were lost
24. "You seem distracted," he said when she refused the jug
25. She refused to eat, and her wing would not mend
26. She refused to believe that the civilization of the study planet was real and that she had been duped by her clone
27. What good would an apology do if that snake didn't understand the damage he was doing? I refused to ignore the incident
28. She seemed delighted at this but politely refused saying she would never leave Aura
29. “On the way home I asked my mother about the vase and the ring, but she refused to say anything to me about them then or at any other time
30. Before the separation she would have refused this experiment just to piss him off, now she was forcing it on him
31. Ish's dad refused to give any money
32. Karen tried to swing her right foot into the car but it refused to
33. Her left foot also refused to move and suddenly, from
34. Chief Swanson refused at first
35. He refused to look at any of the other pictures,
36. He refused to say anything to me except that he must speak with us both immediately
37. refused to have the recommended surgery
38. defiant even as his body refused to cooperate
39. squalor, where dust hung in the air permanently because it refused
40. Govind refused as he wasn't allowed one after a stomach
41. His father refused to talk about his son,
42. She only refused one and there were only two made
43. bodies were as stiff as boards and refused to do what they might
44. ring, but she refused to say anything to me about them then or at
45. She refused to tell them how the sex was however
46. She spoke to me and to Cordra, refused any beer or food, and gradually motivated to the area where the children played
47. “I should have refused to take you out of the hospital after the accident
48. They refused the next round, saying they should get down to the tap house where the old timers were hanging out
49. eyes but they refused to obey his commands, so he
50. She tried to stand but her muscles refused to respond
1. ‘Liz refuses to see that there is any risk
2. She refuses to accept that someone hates her enough to be acting against her
3. This man is impartial, he refuses to gossip, gets along with the members and tries to perfect the saints
4. When one refuses to stand up
5. Moreover, she is always trying to sabotage me in various stupid ways: She steals my back up floppy discs and accuses me of losing them, yet I see them as soon as she opens her drawer; she refuses to show me some useful things on the computer; she gives me to type the wrong texts and then she says I am the one who doesn't work right; she drops hints I am illiterate and I don't know the computer program, and so on
6. as her stubborn beauty refuses to fade,
7. ‘But what if he refuses to believe us? After all, how do we prove that we went through the ceremony?’
8. Despite my arguing myself blue in the face for the chance to spend some of the money I have been assured lurks somewhere for me, Betta refuses to forego what she calls ‘the fun of dressing her new daughter’
9. Jake has a small glass of wine but Katie refuses it, preferring water
10. We have a hiccough with one of the post room guys who goes very pale and refuses completely but, after I’d taken him on one side, I find out it is because he has a criminal record for some juvenile delinquency and is afraid that this will count against him
11. However, Jane is on a roll now and refuses to let a little thing like my shock at finding a pair of knickers can cost £40 stand in the way of finding me something pretty
12. I know he’s been head hunted by a couple of firms in Bristol but refuses to move – and I don’t blame him
13. complicated from your world simply refuses to function over here
14. ‘She refuses! She’d rather die than give in to them
15. Mannus is obviously aware of the situation, but refuses to act
16. ‘He refuses to take my fare!’ said Lindy – still fuming
17. "You see, what Brice refuses to acknowledge is that we are the problem
18. government refuses to submit to the authority of the
19. to admit he’s old, and refuses to help the women with the
20. The woman who is still waiting for her true love and refuses to move on
21. And she refuses to sell you to me
22. time on a man who refuses to hear reason
23. He refuses to associate himself with Men of Midas in the public eye, instead using his time to tend to his more legitimate businesses
24. Our conscience understands these truths but very often, it is our mind that refuses to acknowledge the same
25. Matthew 18:17, If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be as a gentile and a tax collector, Christ instructs the church or assembly to have the final say
26. No so the Democrat Senate, which refuses even to consider the House budget, and has not passed a budget of their own for two years running
27. I have two other cats in the house, both boys, but Starlight refuses to give her heart to either one
28. One who refuses to give you thanks for the help you refused to give him
29. They are at war with us, but the Obama administration refuses to go to war with them, even to the extent of striking the word „terrorist" from the official lexicon
30. It refuses to acknowledge our radio calls
31. Well maybe more f obnoxious than angry and he f refuses to consider himself under arrest
32. If the program refuses to uninstall, click on the arrow on the Uninstall button and select Force Remove 6
33. Behold, the churches of men have fallen! They are fallen! Even every one of them has forsaken Me! All have went backward and not forward! Each one refuses to obey, nor will they incline the ear, but follow the counsels and dictates of their own evil hearts! Lo, with open palms they greedily receive false testimony, as they give ear to every false prophet and teacher who comes to them speaking lies and pleasant things, saying, “Peace, peace”
34. We know that the body count in Vietnam was dramatically increased to such an extent that some historians simply refuses to believe any of the official reports
35. YetthepowerofMystrengthwillbefulfilledinyourweakness,inaccordancewithAs a man in desperate thirst, who refuses every cup from men
36. Therefore, everyone who refuses
37. There is a faction of the public that refuses to admit past atrocities
38. * Usually non-existent as the major security companies refuses to allow for the off chance of this happening
39. I think the only thing we can do is to turn around, but the captain refuses to do it
40. think is in store for all Americans if the government refuses to
41. Mary refuses to tell me
42. ‘Only that Aidme is the only one who can operate them,' said Sam, 'and he refuses to use them in combat
43. Is it any wonder that the gift of the white stone (as described in chapter 17, The Revelation) looked more like the iridium layer that separated the dinosaurs from everything that came after? And the lamp stand of the Ephesians, as well as those around them, was knocked loose from its firm foundation so many times that it finally broke altogether in Constantinople’s collapse in 1453? And the gift of the Morning Star, the universality of the Christian Church so smothered by the pollution of the competing belief systems of Catholicism and the Protest that it refuses to shine through even today?
44. Our Congress refuses and so they should be removed from office
45. Belief without an attempt at verification is like a person on a springboard who refuses or hasn’t bothered to check on whether the pool contains water, or how deep it might be
46. But my poor dad refuses to answer my ‘stupid questions’ so communication is impossible
47. When he is terrified, he prays to God, but God refuses to answer him
48. Saul is terrified and requests his arm bearer to kill him, but the arm bearer refuses
49. I have an uncle who refuses to drink water unless it has been boiled and left to cool down, no matter how thirsty he is
50. Another husband and wife want their father to be buried according to scripture, but he refuses – he demands to be cremated and so we can carry on…
1. I’d been a mess when I heard about the accident, refusing to believe it was true … Dan had been great, liaising with the authorities for me and arranging for their bodies to be brought home from Spain and everything
2. Police are refusing to say who the other man is, but a man by the name of Antony Hansard was seen entering the police station yesterday with Inspector Ditton in attendance
3. Refusing to eat, refusing to cry out when Smiler dug his elbow into my side as we walked down the corridor, was the sum total of my defiance
4. I’m refusing to even contemplate the possibility of pregnancy, after all, the likelihood is extremely low … I’d have to be really unlucky …
5. In Corinth Christian women were disgracing their husbands by refusing to appear
6. I took to pacing the cell, back and forth in the darkness, refusing to light the room from my weekly ration of tea-lights
7. I continued to sit there in silence, staring at the wall, refusing to make eye contact with either the guard or Menachem
8. In time, when he continued to hide behind the shutters, refusing to let the warmth of their smiles enter his heart, they stopped trying to help him all together, and he was secretly glad
9. Refusing to be bossed, I stick my tongue out at him; if nothing else that raises a smile from him
10. as Petr, stubbornly refusing to be parted from his
11. Chrissie worked at scrubbing the dishes, her mind refusing to contemplate anything beyond this simple activity, her ears were pricked for the sound of footsteps and her pulse raced as the adrenaline coursed through her, sparking the ancient flight instinct
12. Refusing all offers of help from her, he fusses around the kitchen, getting out plates, pouring red wine … ordinary activities which restore her balance, wiping away the memory of Chas reaching out for her, his hands clawlike in their eagerness to grasp her flesh
13. Then as it was anticipated, though far more delayed than expected, Tania and Poly at last stood on the dock one morning refusing to budge without some explanation
14. The mind, as if in protest, refusing to
15. By refusing to acknowledge it, the institution could
16. his hands refusing bribe, who stop his
17. Dean’s head and out the window, steadfastly refusing to
18. ) `Stupid animal that I was' (he said), `now I must sit in this dungeon, till people who were proud to say they knew me, have forgotten the very name of Toad! O wise old Badger!' (he said), `O clever, intelligent Rat and sensible Mole! What sound judgments, what a knowledge of men and matters you have! O unhappy and lost Toad!' With cries such as these he passed his days and nights for several weeks, refusing his meals or snacks, though the grim and ancient jailer, knowing that Toad was rich, often pointed out that many comforts, and indeed luxuries, could be sent in-- at a price--from outside
19. his shoulders and continued to smile, though – refusing to
20. They seemed to value them as we would do any little pebbles of somewhat more than ordinary beauty, and to consider them as just worth the picking up, but not worth the refusing to any body who asked them, They gave them to their new guests at the first request, without seeming to think that they had made them any very valuable present
21. Adros gritted his teeth against the pain, refusing to drop his staff
22. Either way, there was no possibility of refusing to serve
23. The banks, however, were of a different opinion ; and upon their refusing to extend their credits, some of those traders had recourse to an expedient which, for a time, served their purpose, though at a much greater expense, yet as effectually as the utmost extension of bank credits could have done
24. When a banker had even made this discovery, he might sometimes make it too late, and might find that he had already discounted the bills of those projectors to so great an extent, that, by refusing to discount any more, he would necessarily make them all bankrupts ; and thus by ruining them, might perhaps ruin himself
25. The banks, however, by refusing in this manner to give more credit to those to whom they had already given a great deal too much, took the only method by which it was now possible to save either their own credit, or the public credit of the country
26. But now she made no sound, refusing to cry out no matter how this hurt
27. what was happening, refusing to believe the genuineness of it all,
28. Refusing to give up, I push harder, but was lifted off my feet into the air
29. Then refusing to meet Nerissa’s eyes, she reattached the chain
30. When he asked about Mitzka’s father, Lerukka, Crissy quickly changed the subject, refusing to discuss the father of her child
31. To dream that the camera is broken indicates that you are ignoring an issue or refusing to see the big picture
32. Perhaps the dream is telling you that you are refusing to confront some issue and instead are sweeping it under the carpet?
33. To dream that you have excessive earwax suggests that there is something you are refusing to hear
34. You are refusing to see the truth
35. If you dream that the radio is turned off, then it indicates that you have the ability to help in some situation, but you are refusing to do so
36. Upon his refusing to moderate them in favour of the Dutch, they, in 1671, prohibited the importation of the wines, brandies, and manufactures of France
37. Odis simply bowed his head down, refusing to let any words out
38. The figure stood there, refusing to move an inch or stop gazing at Lunarey
39. To see your boyfriend sleeping in your dream indicates that you are refusing to see a problem in the relationship
40. You are refusing to face your fears
41. Normally she’d never consider an impromptu visit but the plight of Scott had gained some media coverage, and refusing help would reflect badly on herself
42. Sebastian kept his gaze level with Rogan, refusing to back down
43. He explained how they had interfaced a computer to it and the way it had been answering some of their questions and refusing to answer others
44. ” announced Jones, “They say the airlocks are refusing to open on Callisto station, so they are commencing cutting the doors open
45. ‘A gift from your benefactors?’ she asked, refusing to be impressed
46. She left the table and went to her room, refusing to rush, walking purposefully, head up, shoulders back, face set, stamping on her temper
47. I was having real problems as the key seemed to have a mind of its own tracing patterns round the locks opening but refusing to fit in it and open the bloody thing
48. In late 1960, however, he showed a great deal of class by refusing to contest the eminently contestable 1960 election in which John Kennedy defeated him with the efforts of thousands of dead voters in Illinois and Texas, without whose votes Kennedy would not have won
49. Lira had been hiding from Adem for some time now refusing to be appointed as his Healer
50. She stood in the small encircled area and glared at the walls above his head, refusing to acknowledge his presence