We have to understand that this is less about a refusal of the other than a refusal of the self.
a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions.
The Thenardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify neither assent nor refusal.
Not a small number of Indians must die each year thanks to that collective refusal to be bothered.
When he started dressing like a tramp he claimed it was, in part, to advertise his refusal to join polite, ie, hypocritical society.
The European Union has cut off aid payments to the Hamas-led Palestinian government because of the Islamic group's refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel.
The refusal of the U.S. to charge itself as much for gasoline as is good for it (and for other countries) is the single greatest foreign policy failure of the past three decades.
She had taken this step as a final protest against Wu Sun-fu's refusal to let her go back home to the country after the memorial service for her late father. No one had been able to persuade her to leave her room, so they left her to her own devices.
Her answer amounted to a complete refusal.
Indeed, among all the former European colonial powers, France is unique in its refusal to decolonize.
Is waiting upon the Lord a kind of Stoic bravado, or is it a stubborn refusal to accept our situation?
In addition, another 483 Israeli reserve soldiers and officers had also signed a "refusal petition". They said they would not fight in the occupied areas.
He says the left's refusal to take sides in the internal battles of Muslim countries( between dissidents and oppressors) reflects an“ angelic blindness” which mistakes violent reactionaries for charming exotica.
There must be a spirit of refusal to be "privately owned by the few" in the government and the army;without a genuinely democratic system this cannot be attained and the system of government and the state system will be out of harmony.
We were all dismayed at his refusal to co-operate.
This is part of an older problem: the refusal of a defeated incumbent to accept defeat and bow out.
More perplexing is the refusal of both Mr Obama and Mr Ryan to put forward a plan on Social Security, whose problems are more manageable and for which Simpson-Bowles advanced a balanced solution.
Her refusal was merely a deliberate gesture.
Other times there's apparently nothing blocking the memory's retrieval other than your mind's stubborn refusal.
The first is that stable societies - that is, where cheats can be found and punished, if only by a refusal to do business with them in future - are a precondition for successful institutions.
"Even today," a Sherman "is well-understood slang for a firm refusal."
It wasn't just Alan Greenspan's unwillingness to admit that there was anything more than a bit of "froth" in housing markets, or his refusal to do anything about subprime abuses.
Spanish conservatives might do well to reconsider their refusal to consider symbolic changes in national status for Catalonia and the Basque country.
In fact, your ambiguous words amount to a refusal.
It might be something as simple as our deep-down refusal to believe that every human life has equal worth.
