Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg. Ben Carson lied about Mannatech. Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code. Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.
It [911] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion. This was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.
If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.
For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
I refused from the beginning to restrict myself to any sort of lifestyle.
The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down
They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.
Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.
. . . she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.
I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.
I refused to let go of what I had.
Jesus refused to produce a sign. . . because it was not the Father's will, nor his, to be Messiah.