Refuse Sentence Examples

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  • I can't refuse to answer you.

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  • Having no way to refuse, she followed him to the campfire of their host.

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  • He was glad I was free to refuse him.

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  • What are you going to do if we refuse to follow you?

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  • Strangely enough, the government did not refuse its consent.

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  • One day you are dull, and the next you refuse to see anyone.

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  • I refuse to believe this is the way things were meant to be.

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  • I refuse to face that again.

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  • She started to refuse, but he insisted, Don't be a martyr.

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  • And that caused his sister to refuse my brother?

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  • Nicholas could not refuse Iogel and asked Sonya to dance.

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  • I know you fear nothing but the underground, and I will send you there for all of eternity if you refuse my command!

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  • If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth.

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  • Didn't it make you feel bad to refuse him a hug?

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  • How could she refuse?

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  • She didn't ask for fear of discovering he was going to stop playing his keep-away game and offer her an arrangement she couldn't refuse.

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  • When you put it that way, how can I refuse?

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  • Therefore, roughly speaking, one ton of beetroot may be considered 'to-day as of the same value as one ton of canes; the value of the refuse chips in one case, as food for cattle, being put against the value of the refuse bagasse, as fuel, in the other.

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  • The ground around the "viscachera" is cleared from vegetation, the refuse of which is heaped upon the mound.

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  • The steam was raised in a steam boiler outside the building, which was fuelled by burning city refuse.

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  • Of course, there was no reason to refuse.

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  • Where he is there it is, and hence those who follow him are God's children, and those who refuse his message are left outside in darkness.

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  • Many of the steamers use as fuel mazut or petroleum refuse.

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  • Refuse is also removed to the Salt Lake by means of a municipal railway.

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  • From this time, however, the magistrates whom it elected refused to take the oath of supremacy, and, as by its charter it possessed the right to refuse admission to the king's judges, and therefore to dispense with the right of holding assizes, a rule was obtained in the Irish chancery for the seizure of its charter, which was carried into effect in 1618.

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  • If it gets too smelly, the dog will refuse to use it.

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  • Taran bit his tongue, wanting more than anything to refuse.

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  • Musa could not refuse to comply with the formal command of the caliph to march against him.

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  • Such an offer was too tempting for Italy to refuse.

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  • It does not aim at binding the opinions of men or at condemning to the tortures of hell-fire those who refuse to accept it.

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  • How could I refuse?

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  • For a moment, Wynn thought she'd refuse.

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  • You know I'll refuse.

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  • After all he'd been through fighting for his home, how could she refuse?

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  • Does that mean if you were willing, he'd refuse?

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  • All such refuse should be cleared up and burned.

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  • I refuse to walk away like Quinn and Martha and I won't let some bastard chase me out.

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  • The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.

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  • By means of similar head-jerks the skins of insects sucked dry of their contents are thrown out of the pit, which is then kept clear of refuse.

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  • They are rigid non-resistants, and will not bear arms or study the art of war; they refuse to take oaths, and discountenance going to law over issues that can possibly be settled out of the courts.

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  • For the same reason they refuse to occupy the time of worship with an arranged programme of vocal service; they meet in silence, desiring that the service of the meeting shall depend on spiritual guidance.

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  • Considering the dilatory methods of Orientals, even when they are creditors, it is doubtful whether this sum adequately covers the whole of the claims outstanding, and it may be found difficult, even for a parliament, to refuse claims which should equitably be admitted and which may be preferred later.

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  • Should the Porte refuse, the two powers were to take the earliest opportunity, either separately or in common, of establishing a reconciliation on the basis of the protocol.

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  • There is, of course, no sewerage system, the surfaces of the streets serving that purpose, and what garbage and refuse is not consumed by the dog scavengers washes down into the Tigris at the same place from which the water for drinking is drawn.

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  • This made it a grave sin in the priest to refuse absolution, whenever there was some good reason for giving it even when there were other and better reasons for refusing it.

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  • On the other hand, the principle of the exemption of all the nobles from taxation is confirmed, as well as their right to refuse military service abroad, the defence of the realm being their sole obligation.

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  • As however Trumbic rallied the Yugoslav delegation to refuse the Franco-British project, Clemenceau the very next day introduced the important modification that Fiume should be an independent state under the League.

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  • It entered a creek which was navigable for a considerable distance, and formed a subsidiary harbour for the City, but by the 14th century this was becoming choked with refuse, and though an attempt was made to clear it, and wharves were built in 1670, it was wholly arched over in 1 7371765 below Holborn Bridge.

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  • But, though we may refuse to accept the accuracy of this figure of Nabonidus, it is not possible at present to fix a definite date for the early kings of Agade.

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  • Apart from this, the chief meaning, the word is used of the malt refuse of brewing and distilling, and of many hard rounded small particles, resembling the seeds of plants, such as "grains" of sand, salt, gold, gunpowder, &c. "Grain" is also the name of the smallest unit of weight, both in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

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  • Thus also the sun, moon and stars may be made to descend hither in appearance, and to be visible over the heads of our enemies, and many things of the like sort, which persons unacquainted with such things would refuse to believe."

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  • In Trinidad the young are esteemed a great delicacy for the table by many, though some persons object to their peculiar scent, which resembles that of a cockroach (Blatta), and consequently refuse to eat them.

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  • Provision is also made for enforcing the removal of accumulations of manure, dung, soil or filth from any premises in an urban district, and for the periodical removal of manure or other refuse from mews, stables or other premises.

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  • The temptation was too great for the young king to refuse; he accepted the homage, and offered the aid of his arms. It was soon required, for Baliol was ere long expelled from Scotland.

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  • The return of the Channel fleet to its duty emboldened the admiralty to refuse any concessions, and the vigorous measures of repression taken proved effective.

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  • The Times, in April 1887, printed the facsimile of a letter purporting to be signed by Parnell, in which he declared that he had no other course open to him but to denounce the Phoenix Park murders, but that, while he regretted the accident of Lord Frederick Cavendishs death, he could not refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts.

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  • However, every EU country is allowed to refuse admittance for pets younger than 3 months.

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  • Accordingly the Panel uphold the Respondent's decision and refuse the appellant 's appeal.

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  • It's just nonsensical to refuse well-researched planning applications for Wind Farms, in order to protect " landscape value " .

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  • Resonance is not authoritarian; yet it's an offer you cannot refuse!

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  • Refuse no one to-day that may claim thy bounty " .

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  • Drivers whose breath tests are positive, or refuse to provide a sample of breath tests are positive, or refuse to provide a sample of breath, face losing their license for 12 months.

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  • Refuse areas are the perfect breeding ground for all kinds of pests.

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  • These pits also contained significant amounts of domestic refuse including animal bones, burnt daub and burnt daub and burnt flint.

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  • I cannot refuse her, for I feel almost lifeless.

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  • Several human finger and toe bones were also found among the animal food refuse in the Mesolithic middens.

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  • But I refuse to put on tights and play a superhero.

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  • Sigismund himself gave it as his opinion that it had been clearly proved by many witnesses that the accused had taught many pernicious heresies, and that even should he recant he ought never to be allowed to preach or teach again or to return to Bohemia, but that should he refuse recantation there was no remedy but the stake.

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  • On December 18 he moved to refuse supplies until the king passed the Exclusion Bill.

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  • The power of granting citizenship to foreigners is vested in the president of the republic, who is also empowered to refuse admission to the country to undesirable foreigners, or to expel those who have violated the special law (April 11, 1903) relating to their conduct in Venezuelan territory.

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  • Many natives, even if armed, refuse, however, to molest an adult male gorilla, on account of its ferocity when wounded.

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  • He cannot refuse to give evidence respecting the offence pardoned on the ground that his answer would tend to criminate him.

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  • Among the more important are Certayne Reasons why Cntholiques refuse to goe to Church (Douai, 1580), A Christian Directorie guiding Men to their Saluation (London, 1583-1591, 2 parts), A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland (1594), Treatise of the Three Conversions of England (1603-1604, 3 parts), an answer to Foxe's Acts and Monuments.

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  • Two other declarations may be quoted to show how necessary such confessions are even to religious societies which refuse to be bound by them.

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  • On the other hand, if we refuse to accept this identification, and hold that the beast from the abyss is yet to come, any attempt at a strict exegesis of the text plunges us in hopeless difficulties.

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  • It was clear from the first that the decisions of the council would be uncompromising in character, and that the Protestants would certainly refuse to be bound by its decrees.

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  • A large fleet is engaged in the fishery; and a great number of factories extract the oil for tanning and currying, and for adulterating other more expensive oils, and manufacture the refuse into a valuable guano.

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  • The martyrs are offered a delay of thirty days to reconsider their decision, but this they all alike refuse.

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  • He hoped for assistance from the friendly Nabataeans; but, as they owed everything to their position as middlemen for the South-Arabian trade, which a direct communication between Rome and the Sabaeans would have ruined, their viceroy Syllaeus, who did not dare openly to refuse help, sought to frustrate the emperor's scheme by craft.

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  • The court will refuse to stay proceedings where the subject-matter of the litigation falls outside the scope of the reference, or there is some serious objection to the fitness of the arbitrator, or some other good reason of the kind exists.

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  • The Reichsrat's right of control was secured after the event by the fact that the Government was bound, the next time it assembled, to lay the emergency decrees before it within four weeks; and that it could refuse its ratification.

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  • In the Assembly Marat had no party; he would always suspect and oppose the powerful, refuse power for himself.

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  • He did not refuse to speak of Mary as being the mother of Christ or as being the mother of Emmanuel, but he thought it improper to speak of her as the mother of God, and Leo in the Letter to Flavian which was endorsed at Chalcedon uses the term "Mother of the Lord" which was exactly what Nestorius wished.

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  • That they had a large measure of authority of course goes without saying, but it depended always upon their brethren's recognition of their possession of the divine gift of apostleship, and the right of Churches or individuals to test their claims and to refuse to listen to them if they did not vindicate their divine call was everywhere recognized.

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  • The purport, then, of ablutions is to remove, not dust and dirt, but the - to us imaginary - stains contracted by contact with the dead, with childbirth, with menstruous women, with murder whether wilful or involuntary, with almost any form of bloodshed, with persons of inferior caste, with dead animal refuse, e.g.

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  • Bernadotte thereupon informed Morner that he would not refuse the honour if he were duly elected.

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  • The low coral islands suffer frequently from drought; their soil is sandy and unproductive, and in some cases the natives attempt cultivation by excavating trenches and fertilizing them with vegetable and other refuse.

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  • Maximilian of Austria, brother of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and should he refuse, left its disposal to Napoleon III.

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  • Open spaces of great extent are numerous within the walls, but for the most part they are defaced by mounds of rubbish and putrid refuse.

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  • C. Lister (Lord Masham) introduced the silk and velvet manufacture, having invented a process of manipulating silk waste, whereby what was previously treated as refuse is made into goods that will compete with those manufactured from the perfect cocoon.

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  • In the hope of relieving his financial difficulties, the king erected a mint, where money was coined of the "worst kind of old brass, guns and the refuse of metals, melted down together," of the nominal value of £1,568,800, with which his troops were paid, and tradesmen were compelled to receive it under penalty of being hanged in case of refusal.

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  • Some horses, good performers over any description of fence, will not jump water under any circumstances; while the chance of a ducking deters many from riding at it; and, however bold the horse may be, he will soon refuse water if his rider be perpetually in two minds when approaching it.

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  • They belong to the family Psocidae which has a few score species - most of them winged - living out of doors on the bark of trees and among vegetable refuse.

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  • It is easier and, in one sense, it is more impressive to make a peremptory and exclusive statement, and to refuse to allow any place beside it to divergent expositions; but this show of clearness and power is dearly purchased at the cost of the ennobling conviction that the whole truth is far greater than our individual minds.

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  • Before the introduction of machinery applicable to the spinning of silk waste, the refuse from cocoon reeling, and also from silk winding, which is now used in producing spun silk fabrics, hosiery, &c., was nearly all destroyed as being useless, with the exception of that which could be hand-combed and spun by means of the distaff and spinning wheel, a method which is still practised by some of the peasantry in India and other Eastern countries.

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  • The arguments that had weaned him from his Zwibiglian simplicity did not satisfy his unpromoted brethren, and Jewel had to refuse admission to a benefice to his friend Laurence Humphrey (q.v.), who would not wear a surplice.

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  • The increasing numbers arriving by this means, however, provoked serious hostility in the Pacific coast states, especially in San Francisco, and to remedy the difficulty Congress inserted a clause in the general immigration act of the 10th of February 1907 which provides that whenever the president is satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to any other country than the United States, or to any of its insular possessions, or to the Canal Zone, " are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labour conditions therein," he may refuse to admit them.

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  • I therefore made an experiment to determine whether the whole of a given portion of the phlogisticated air of the atmosphere could be reduced to nitrous acid, or whether there was not a part of a different nature to the rest which would refuse to undergo that change.

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  • The patent raising him to the peerage as Baron Morden had been made out, but his last act was to refuse his sanction to the sealing of the document.

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  • Failing the certificate, the clergyman cannot refuse to bury, but he must forthwith give notice in writing to the registrar.

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  • These experiments have shown that Arthropods also have their likes and dislikes in the matter of insect-food and frequently refuse to eat insects which are warningly coloured and are distasteful to vertebrated enemies.

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  • Vegetable refuse of all kinds, when smother-burned in a similar way, becomes a valuable mechanical improver of the soil; but the preferable course is to decompose it in a heap with quicklime and layers of earth, converting it into leaf-mould.

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  • Potato haulms, and club-rooted cabbage crops should, however, never be mixed with ordinary clean vegetable refuse, as they would be most likely to perpetuate the terrible diseases to which they are subject.

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  • Briefly, it prevents the dealing with the right of presentation as a thing apart from the advowson itself; increases the power of the bishops to refuse the presentation of unfit persons, and removes several abuses which had arisen in the transfer of patronage.

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  • He was at first opposed to the war with Germany, but when satisfied that it had been forced upon France he did not, like some of his colleagues, refuse to vote supplies, but took the patriotic line of supporting the flag.

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  • Exempt from duty were now only refuse, raw products, scientific instruments, ships and literary and artistic objects; forty-four articles notably beer, vinegar, sugar, herrings, cocoa, salt, fish oils, ether, alum and sodawere unaffected by the change, while duties were henceforth levied upon a large number of articles which had previously been admitted dtity free, such as pig iron, machines and locomotives, grain, building timber, tallow; horses, cattle and sheep; and, again, the tariff law further increased the duties leviable upon numerous other articles.

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  • His main fear was that the Danes might refuse to fight and appeal instead to a European congress; and, to prevent this, he led the Copenhagen government to believe that Great Britain had threatened to intervene in the event of Prussia going to war, though, as a matter of fact, England did nothing of the kind.

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  • This term may be more properly applied to those who still refuse to recognize the legality of the acts by which the empire was founded.

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  • There was no great following among the people; it was only in isolated places that priests and congregation together asserted their rights to refuse to accept the decrees of the Church.

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  • To refuse this claim would have meant the indefinite prolongation of the crisis; to concede it would have been to invite the peasantry of the whole empire to put forth similar demands on pain of a general rising.

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  • The Austrian government, in no position to refuse, had consented to send delegates from its German provinces to the parliament of united Germany, which met at Frankfort on the 18th of May 1848.

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  • As the Federalists were all opposed to the Ausgleich, it was clear that a Reichsrath chosen in these circumstances would refuse to ratify it, and this was probably Belcredi's intention.

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  • By 875 he found himself strong enough to refuse to send tribute to Bagdad, preferring to spend the revenues of Egypt on the maintenance of his army and the erection of great buildings, such as his famous mosque; and though Mowaffaq advanced against him with an army, the project of reducing Abmad to submission had to be abandoned for want of means.

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  • Throughout three years such a dog failed to learn that the attendant's lifting it from the cage at a certain hour was the preliminary circumstance of the feedinghour; yet it did exhibit hunger, and would refuse further food when a sufficiency had been taken.

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  • Napoleon's answer was to refuse to ratify the convention of the 4th of January, and to announce his engagement to the archduchess Marie Louise in such a way as to lead Alexander to suppose that the two marriage treaties had been negotiated simultaneously.

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  • On two occasions the council advised the king to refuse him permission to leave England, but in 1437 he obtained a full pardon for all his offences.

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  • The most startling declaration of the manifesto was that if Spain should refuse to sell " after we have offered a price for Cuba far beyond its present value," and if Cuba, in the possession of Spain, should seriously endanger " our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union," then " by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain if we have the power."

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  • In the spring of 18 9 5 he was clear-sighted enough to refuse to join the anti-Japanese League of Russia, France and Germany at the end of the ChinaJapan War.

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  • An armistice was arranged; the besieged begging for a remission from the pope, and also asking Henry to request the emperor to move the pope to refuse.

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  • The god, who had sworn to refuse Semele nothing, unwillingly consented.

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  • But fear of offending the emperor could not have induced him to refuse a really legitimate request from a king like Henry.

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  • In practice it is found that many students whom their teachers refuse to certify are able to pass the university entrance examination.

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  • God is your Father, He says in effect; you will be His sons if like Him you will refuse to make distinctions, loving without looking for a return, sure that in the end love will not be wholly lost.

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  • Then, changing His illustration, He says that many shall seek entrance in vain; for the master of the house will refuse to recognize them.

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  • To obey would have meant death; to refuse in his own name would have been contumacy.

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  • We may draw the inference that they formed an insignificant item in the population of a small province of the Persian Empire, and yet doubt whether they did actually refuse - alone of all the inhabitants of Palestine - to submit to the conqueror of the whole.

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  • To these contemporary censures the modern critic cannot refuse his assent.

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  • But in the midst of the festivities with which he was entertaining Paris, the duke found that Louis ventured to refuse his candidates for office, and on the 24th of September the new king left abruptly for Touraine.

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  • The refuse or cake is of great value to agriculturists, as it forms a food for cattle, and in the case of sesamum it is eaten by the people.

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  • Rashid, renounced him altogether, because he had not submitted to the decision of the umpires, and persuaded many others to refuse the payment of the poor-rate.

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  • He next caused a circular letter, commanding all Maghribins to refuse obedience to the caliph, to be read from the pulpit throughout the whole extent of the Maghrib (western North Africa).

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  • Nor can the opponent fairly refuse to admit it, if he affirms the participation of the identical with being, and denies the participation of difference with being, or affirms it with not-being.

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  • While then membership in this organization is not primary, it assumes a higher and even a vital importance, since a true experience recognizes the common faith and the common fellowship. Were it to refuse assent to these, doubt would be thrown upon its own trustworthiness.

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  • In the crannog of Lagore, county Meath, there were about 150 cartloads of bones, chiefly of oxen, deer, sheep and swine, the refuse of the food of the occupants.

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  • There are, however, not a few classes of Brahmans who, for various reasons, have become degraded from their high station, and formed separate castes with whom respectable Brahmans refuse to intermarry and consort.

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  • But, on the other hand, they largely help to clear the sea and other waters of refuse and carrion, and for fishes, seals and whales they are food desirable and often astoundingly copious.

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  • When the legislature of Virginia gave him 150 shares of stock in companies formed for the improvement of the Potomac and James rivers, and he was unable to refuse them lest his action should be misinterpreted, he extricated himself by giving them to educational institutions.

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  • Any criticism of their peculiar institution now came to be highly offensive to Southern leaders, and Calhoun, who always took the most advanced stand in behalf of Southern rights urged (but in vain) that the Senate refuse to receive abolitionist petitions.

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  • In September Sabbatai was brought before the Sultan, and he had not the courage to refuse to accept Islam.

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  • Ignatius, continuing to refuse the abdication which could alone have given Photius's elevation a semblance of legality, was treated with extreme severity.

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  • Moreover, the fear of Henry was sufficient to make the French king refuse to allow one who was attainted by act of parliament to remain in the kingdom; so Pole passed over to Flanders, to wait for the possible arrival of any royal deputies.

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  • Not only will most tropical plants refuse to live in a temperate climate, but many species are seriously injured by removal a few degrees of latitude beyond their natural limits.

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  • BjdrkS ("the isle of birches"), by foreign authors called Birka, was a kind of capital where the king lived occasionally at least; history speaks of its relations with Dorestad in the Netherlands, and the extensive refuse heaps of the old city, as well as the numerous sepulchral monuments, show that the population must have been large.

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  • So, too, with the attempt to show that from the analogy of the present life we may not unreasonably infer that virtue and vice will receive their respective rewards and punishments hereafter; it may be admitted that virtuous and vicious acts are naturally looked upon as objects of reward or punishment, and treated accordingly, but we may refuse to allow the argument to go further, and to infer a perfect distribution of justice dependent upon our conduct here.

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  • He did not, however, refuse to join the commission of twenty by whom the great agrarian scheme of Caesar for the resettlement of Capua and Campania was carried into execution (59 B.C.).

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  • This consists for the most part of the smaller mammals and poultry; although the association in packs enables these marauders to hunt down antelopes and sheep. When unable to obtain living prey, they feed on carrion and refuse of all kinds, and are thus useful in removing putrescent matter from the streets.

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  • At an assembly of the clergy held in Paris in 1398 it was resolved to refuse to recognize the authority of Benedict who succeeded Clement VII.

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  • This industry declined for a time, partly on account of the pollution of the streams by sewage and the refuse of manufacturing establishments, but laws have been enacted for its protection and development.

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  • Under these acts a sanitary authority is authorized to take proceedings to restrain interference with the due flow of a stream or the pollution of its waters by throwing into it the solid refuse of any manufactory or quarry, or any rubbish or cinders, or any other waste or any putrid solid matter.

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  • The district council are not R bound to undertake the removal of house refuse from premises, or the cleansing of closets, privies, ashpits and .

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  • If they do not undertake these duties, they may make by-laws imposing on the occupiers of premises the duty of cleansing footways and pavements, the removal of house refuse, and the cleansing of earth-closets, privies, ashpits and cesspools; and an urban council may also make by-laws for the prevention of nuisances arising from snow, filth, dust, ashes and rubbish, and for the prevention of the keeping of animals on any premises so as to be injurious to health.

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  • Provision is made for preventing the pollution of water by gas refuse and enabling a district council, with the sanction of the attorney-general, to take any proceedings they may think fit for preventing the pollution of any stream in their district by sewage.

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  • Further, the council may refuse to register a keeper unless they are satisfied of his character and of his fitness for the position.

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  • Perhaps the most remarkable incident in the life of Theodosius from a personal point of view is the incident of his submission to the reprimands of Ambrose, who dared to rebuke him and refuse to admit him to the Eucharist till he had done public penance for punishing a riot in Thessalonica by a wholesale massacre of the populace.

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  • Refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men.

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  • He never, as long as he could write, was known to refuse his autograph, and so far was he from trying to protect himself from intruders that he rarely drew the blinds of his study windows at night, though that study was on the ground floor and faced the street.

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  • Of the original inhabitants there remain only a few scattered tribes in the forests, who refuse to submit to civilized requirements, and a much larger number who live in organized communities and have adopted the language, customs and habits of the dominant race.

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  • The term "drainage" is applied generally to all operations involving the drawing off of water or other liquid, but more particularly to those connected with the treatment of the soil in agriculture, or with the removal of water and refuse from streets and houses.

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  • It feeds on small fish and on the animal refuse that floats on the sea, eating to such excess at times that it is unable to fly and rests helplessly on the water.

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  • On his refusal the Boers replied to him, "Why do you refuse to sign the paper?

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  • To refuse to submit to fasting was considered indelibly disgraceful, and was one of the things which legally degraded a man by reducing or destroying his honour-value.

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  • The blood and refuse were discharged through a drain into the brook Kedron; this drain probably still remains, in the Bir el-Arwah, under the "Dome of the Rock" in the mosque which covers the site of the temple.

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  • But many of the barons stood neutral, not seeing how they could refuse to accept the arbitration they had courted, while a number not inconsiderable joined the king, deciding that Leicester had passed the limits of reasonable loyalty, and that their first duty was to the crown.

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  • It was his regular habit to refer those who came to him on matters of state to his good brother Piers, and to refuse to discuss them in person.

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  • A consul could refuse to accept their decree while he remained in office, but on retiring he could be prosecuted.

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  • And therefore if these courts either refuse to allow these acts of parliament, or expound them in any other sense than is truly and properly the exposition of them, the king's great courts of common law may prohibit and control them."

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  • As they deny the natural religion of the 18th century - the religion which works its way into harmony with God by virtue - so, still more emphatically, they refuse to bid the sinner merit forgiveness.

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  • Otherwise the chief articles of Constantinople's export trade consist of refuse and waste materials, sheep's wool (called Kassab bashi) and skins from the slaughter-houses (in 1903 about 3,coo,000 skins were exported, mostly to America), horns, hoofs, goat and horse hair, guts, bones, rags, bran, old iron, &c., and finally dogs' excrements, called in trade ` pure,' a Constantinople speciality, which is used in preparing leather for ladies' gloves.

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  • On the other hand, we cannot refuse to admit that any of the processes of an Arthropod parapodium may become modified as branchial organs, and that, as a rule, branchial out-growths are easily developed, de novo, in all the higher groups of animals.

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  • At the Seance Royale Louis made known his will that the Estates should deliberate apart, and declared that if they should refuse to help him he would do by his sole authority what was necessary for the happiness of his people.

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  • The Law of Suspects, passed at the same time, declared suspect every person who was of noble birth, or had held office before the Revolution, or had any connexion with an émigré, or could not produce a card of civisme granted by the local authority, which had full discretion to refuse.

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  • He explains the possibility of error on the ground that the mind possesses the liberum arbitrium indifferentiae and can always refuse to affirm the truth of a conclusion drawn from premises which are not selfevident.

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  • And even when the presentations before the mind are so clear that assent to their truth cannot be refused, the possibility of assenting still rests with the will, which can refuse to attend to any presentation, or can refuse assent with the sole motive of proving its freedom.

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  • To the Premier's remonstrance that, after the recent verdict of the general election in favour of his policy, the Crown was not entitled to refuse its sanction, Constantine replied that in matters of foreign policy he did not consider himself bound to follow the national will, feeling himself " personally responsible to God alone."

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  • Protestant corporations were dissolved by [From Anglo-Norman Invasion] " quo warrantos "; but James was still Englishman enough to refuse an Irish parliament, which might repeal Poyning's Act and the Act of Settlement.

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  • As regards the tonic, accent and the treatment of the vowels which come after it, Castilian may be said to be essentially a paroxytonic language, though it does not altogether refuse proparoxytonic accentuation and it would be a mistake to regard vocables like 1dm para, lagrima, rdpido, &c., as learned words.

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  • The pressure at home for completing the work of German unity was so strong that he could with difficulty resist it, and in 1870 he was much embarrassed by a request from Baden to be admitted to the confederation, which he had to refuse.

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  • It should be well but not overfed, and while young not overworked, as an overtired animal is liable to refuse to pull, and thus contract a bad habit.

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  • Neri saw that the pope's attitude was more than likely to drive Henry to a relapse, and probably to rekindle the civil war in France, and directed Baronius, then the pope's confessor, to refuse him absolution, and to resign his office of confessor, unless he would withdraw the anathema.

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  • Traces of burning which have been found render it probable that, when the refuse thrown down among the piles had filled the space, the settlement was burned and a new one built upon the remains.

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  • In fact, you did – and do – refuse to claim your mate.

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  • The demon tried to trick me into burning them, but I refuse its will as much as I can.

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  • None had yet to refuse, and all consented to the orgasmic night of sex and blood.

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  • He made a diligent inquiry; so, how do I refuse the labor?

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  • A refusal to cover for absent colleagues Staff should refuse to cover for absent colleagues Staff should refuse to cover for absent or sick colleagues.

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  • We reserve the right to refuse admission to the Museum at any time.

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  • In the best interest of the animal we reserve the right to refuse if the circumstances are not ideal for that anima l.

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  • Saddam is too cagey to refuse outright, not with war balancing on the edge of a scimitar.

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  • Printers may refuse to work with third-party or refilled cartridges, or even with genuine cartridges that have passed an expiry date.

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  • Just as important are the people who empty the cesspits, the street sweepers, refuse collectors and those who staff the car parks.

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  • Landlords could also refuse to let their tenants have land on which to build nonconformist chapels and meeting houses.

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  • We cleared out lots of modern refuse from a wartime water closet.

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  • Wycombe District Council Recycling collection Recycling collections compliment the household refuse collections.

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  • Mrs Jolliffe will explore this further with the TVBC refuse collection service with a view to getting bins for these locations.

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  • We're not the old-fashioned dustbin refuse collectors any more.

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  • The wheeled bins prevent serious injury for refuse collectors.

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  • You can set your browser to refuse cookies from any website you visit.

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  • Northern donors themselves, however, refuse to change their own policies, or to make tackling corruption a priority.

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  • A refuse destructor which had also been installed provided heat to generate steam for the machinery.

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  • A large waste disposal depot is beside the canal about half way down with a useful refuse skip nearby.

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  • Welwyn Hatfield Council do not provide a dustbins or refuse sacks.

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  • I can most certainly empathize with people dealing with such problems but I refuse to enable them.

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  • Also to refuse or cancel any entries, to postpone or abandon the Show and relax conditions as the Society may deem expedient.

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  • The city's entire fleet of refuse collection trucks will be powered by alternative fuels by the year 2010.

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  • Let's hope that these future chefs refuse to serve foie gras once they have learned how it is produced.

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  • Do not try to put anything into the back of the refuse freighter yourself.

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  • The legal situation was that the former head of the National Bank could not refuse to fulfill a payment order from the government.

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  • The word started life meaning dung heap, then later refuse or rubbish heap.

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  • Am I responsible for keeping my bin and refuse hygienic?

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  • Where these circumstances apply, existing owners will normally refuse to sell whilst hoping for circumstances to change, thereby inhibiting timely regeneration.

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  • It is an offense to delay or obstruct an inspector from OPRA or to neglect or refuse to produce required documentation or information.

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  • My ' crime ' was to refuse to break the law by rigging Nigeria's Independence elections.

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  • In the event of any client having excess luggage Ski Power reserve the right to refuse to load or transport any excess luggage.

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  • This means nothing when men refuse to use condoms because they don't like them.

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  • Turn 5. High Elves The Silver Helms refuse to charge the fear causing dragon ogres!

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  • However, their female characters also identify with animals as the victims of patriarchal oppression, and some of them refuse to eat meat.

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  • Do not refuse the free pardon, the full salvation which Jesus grants to all who trust Him.

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  • Construction, use and maintenance of pit latrines and refuse pit latrines and refuse pits; environmental hygiene.

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  • The excavation revealed what appeared to be refuse of some sort, containing numerous potsherds, bones, metal pieces and a few coins.

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  • Museum Without Walls stands as both totem and architectural model, creating a contemporary primitivism from cultural refuse.

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  • I, the forlorn Teresa, how shall I refuse or accept such protestations?

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  • What happens if I put my domestic refuse in the wrong container?

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  • Dispose of used packaging and remaining product in the household refuse.

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  • We frequently find report cards of this type among our patients who are very intelligent but refuse to work.

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  • This does not apply to the pink refuse sacks.

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  • Apart from diaper waste sacks, only refuse left inside the shut wheeled bin is collected.

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  • Guides will always take charge of their client's refuse sack.

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  • We should remember that the Essenes went so far as to refuse to bring bloody sacrifices at all.

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  • Affected animals refuse food, drool saliva from the mouth, and lose weight.

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  • The open quarries were used for the disposal of refuse, which probably attracted the scavengers.

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  • Depending on extent of material deposited refuse skips or a mechanical shovel may need to be used.

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  • Yet still, Croats refuse to cultivate friends, invest in PR, articulate their grievances or refute slander.

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  • All because a few slivers of silicon refuse to accept the march of time.

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  • She did have enough spunk to refuse the idea that Guildford should ever think of the possibility that he would be named KING.

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  • It does not reflect the stupidity of men, but the stupidity of men, but the stupidity of management when men refuse to work labor saving machinery.

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  • There is nearly always some knowledge and even tacit consent from a group, even if they refuse to join in.

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  • The refuse was collected in enclosed rear loading articulated trailers.

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  • Plans to give young people aged 16 or 17 the right to refuse treatment have also been dropped.

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  • All normal household refuse may be placed in the wheeled bin, including garden trimmings.

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  • He may refuse to quit the spot, or to change the employment, in which his labor has become unprofitable.

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  • Kids are expensive and I have little sympathy with those who refuse to contribute to the financial upkeep of their own children.

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  • These ' exhibits ' include night urinals, refuse pits and grease traps.

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  • All but their waste, dirty washing, refuse and ` slops ' were likewise passed out the same way.

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  • In the House of Commons the Tories imposed a three-line whip to refuse the Bill of Rights a first reading.

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  • Of complaints followed the four refuse newmarket challenge whip.

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  • York wwwiownthebrooklynbridgecom the four refuse its share of college football color.

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  • Clesinger turned out a thankless scapegrace and George Sand was at last compelled to refuse to admit him to Nohant.

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  • One by one they refuse to render any reasonable account of themselves; each seems a mere chance, and the whole tends to elude us like a mirage which some malignant power creates for our illusion.

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  • Against the first kind of argument, as formulated by Moses Mendelssohn, Kant advances the objection that, although we may deny the soul extensive quantity, division into parts, yet we cannot refuse to it intensive quantity, degrees of reality; and consequently its existence may be terminated not by decomposition, but by gradual diminution of its powers (or to use the term he coined for the purpose, by elanguescence).

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  • A grown-up daughter might wish to become a votary, perhaps in preference to an uncongenial marriage, and it seems that her father could not refuse her wish.

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  • The bishop over whom the synod of neighbouring bishops had exercised jurisdiction had no formal right of appeal; but sometimes bishops in other parts of the Church would refuse to acknowledge the local synodical sentence and would communicate with a bishop whom they deemed unjustly deposed.

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  • But the Russians and the soldiers were resolved to continue the campaign, and working in collusion they put pressure on the not unwilling representatives of the civil power to facilitate the supply and equipment of such troops as were still in the field; they could not refuse food and shelter to their starving countrymen or their loyal allies, and thus by degrees the French garrisons scattered about the country either found themselves surrounded or were compelled to retire to avoid that fate.

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  • The scrapings from the tree, which contain fragments of wood, are mixed with the residues of the collecting pots and the refuse of the vessels employed, and are made up into large rounded balls, which form the inferior commercial quality called " negrohead, " and often contain 25 or 35% of impurity.

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  • They were met by the criticism that possibly such a development had taken place; but, as no one could show as a simple fact of observation that it had taken place, nor as a result of legitimate inference that it must have taken place, it was quite as likely that the past and present species of animals and plants had been separately created or individually brought into existence by unknown and inscrutable causes, and (it was held) the truly scientific man would refuse to occupy himself with such fancies, whilst ever continuing to concern himself with the observation and record of indisputable facts.

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  • The steps in the breaking down of the highly complex nitrogenous proteid compounds contained in the humus of the soil, or applied to the latter by the farmer in the form of dung and organic refuse generally, are many and varied; most frequently the insoluble proteids are changed by various kinds of putrefactive bacteria into soluble proteids (peptones, &c.), these into simpler amido-bodies, and these again sooner or later into compounds of ammonia.

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  • Its simulation of the taste of common salt also renders it suitable for administration to insane patients and others who refuse to take any drug.

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  • His circumstances had improved so much, by pensions, the presents which were showered upon him, and the sale of his books, that he was now in a position to refuse all proposals which would have interfered with his cherished independence.

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  • They were shrewd enough to guess that the royal triumph might prejudice their influence, and for the next five years they deliberately thwarted the enlightened and far-reaching projects of the king for creating a navy and increasing the revenue without burdening the estates, by a system of tolls levied on the trade of the Baltic ports (see Wladislaus Iv.), even going so far as to refuse for nine years to refund the expenses of the Muscovite War, which he had defrayed out of his privy purse.

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  • According to Sextus Empiricus, he was the founder of the Fourth Academy, but other writers refuse to admit the separate existence of more than three academies (see Academy, Greek).

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  • Resting on the dividing upper sphere are the eight-shaped " directive corpuscles," better called " praeseminal outcast cells or apoblasts," since they are the result of a cell-division which affects the egg-cell before it is impregnated, and are mere refuse, destined to disappear.

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  • Childish ineptitudes are mingled with intuitions of maturest wisdom, and seeds of future thought germinate in the decaying refuse of past systems.

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  • Schizomycetes are ubiquitous as saprophytes in still ponds and ditches, in running streams and rivers, and in the sea, and especially in drains, bogs, refuse heaps, and in the soil, and wherever organic infusions are allowed to stand for a short time.

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  • Enormous depreciation ensued and, although penalties rising to death itself were denounced against all who should refuse to take them at par, they fell to little more than r% of their carried a decree that Marat should be sent before the Revolutionary Tribunal for incendiary writings, but his acquittal showed that a Jacobin leader was above the law.

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  • The most cynical man of the world, he says, with whatever " sullen incredulity " he may repudiate virtue as a hollow pretence, cannot really refuse his approbation to " discretion, caution, enterprise, industry, frugality, economy, good sense, prudence, discernment "; nor again, to " temperance, sobriety, patience, perseverance, considerateness, secrecy, order, insinuation, address, presence of mind, quickness of conception, facility of expression."

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  • No--promise that you will not refuse!

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  • It was decided that the count must not go, but that if Louisa Ivanovna (Madame Schoss) would go with them, the young ladies might go to the Melyukovs', Sonya, generally so timid and shy, more urgently than anyone begging Louisa Ivanovna not to refuse.

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  • Natasha did not want to go, but could not refuse Marya Dmitrievna's kind offer which was intended expressly for her.

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  • Pity these wounded men as one might, it was evident that if they were given one cart there would be no reason to refuse another, or all the carts and one's own carriages as well.

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  • The count went into the house with him, repeating his order not to refuse the wounded who asked for a lift.

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  • He was so very polite, amiable, good-natured, and genuinely grateful to Pierre for saving his life that Pierre had not the heart to refuse, and sat down with him in the parlor--the first room they entered.

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  • The company shall refuse goods returned without a RAN authorisation number.

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  • We reserve the right to refuse a request for a listing without giving a reason.

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  • Only terraced houses with no front garden or rear access are allowed to use refuse sacks.

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  • Does it matter if I cannot shut the lid on my refuse bin?

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  • Click here for the full article... Household refuse collection S ome notes.

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  • It is true that parked cars do cause problems for the refuse lorries and collectors.

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  • Your employer can refuse to let you take holiday.

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  • God may also be angry with people who refuse to acknowledge all He has given them.

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  • I did so, for it would have been rude to refuse; beside I had had enough of my sulking fit.

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  • Guides will always take charge of their client 's refuse sack.

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  • They are also known to scavenge on refuse dumps, eating most things that they find.

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  • The presence of human skull fragments would suggest that this deposit was either not entirely of domestic refuse or, of heterogenous origin.

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  • Please notify us of any refuse spillages on the highways.

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  • The Arabs even refuse to stay overnight, yet they know nothing of this prediction since it does not exist in the Qur'an.

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  • It does not reflect the stupidity of men, but the stupidity of management when men refuse to work labor saving machinery.

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  • He had such a lovely smile and twinkling eyes, how could you refuse him anything?

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  • In the home - Tying untidy computer/hi-fi cables, refuse sacks.

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  • The first contingency is that the head of state must have a reserve power to refuse his assent to an unconstitutional act of Parliament.

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  • It is unlawful to refuse someone a job because they are pregnant.

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  • If you are unwilling to comply with such request we may refuse to carry you and your Baggage.

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  • The Council can also reserve the right to refuse any repeated or vexatious requests.

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  • Other inconvenience w it was only refuse to accept.

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  • New york wwwiownthebrooklynbridgecom the four refuse its share of college football color.

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  • To disown means to refuse to acknowledge a relationship with someone.

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  • Most of the democrats adamantly refuse to vote for the pro-life condidate.

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  • They need founders who refuse to give up, who won't let an obstacle stop them in their tracks.

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  • You're inviting huge stress and possible burnout if you refuse to bring in experts and delegate.

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  • Some babies refuse to latch onto the breast, especially if they are fed from a bottle (which is easier to suck) early on.

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  • Some babies also refuse to eat because of the tummy pain they experience while feeding.

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  • You will then be asked to accept or refuse the referral, but keep in mind that refusing a referral may mean that you do not get a second referral.

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  • Potty training resistance can be extremely frustrating to the parents of children who refuse to be potty trained.

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  • She may also refuse to sit or even go near a potty or toilet.

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  • While your next door neighbor's baby may love sweet potatoes, the baby across the street may refuse to eat them at all!

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  • Some babies refuse vegetables and love fruits.

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  • Many women refuse to give up their underwire features when purchasing a nursing bra, and while you can still buy underwear bras, be sure they fit appropriately to avoid placing pressure on the breasts' milk ducts.

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  • Underwire nursing bras-Many women refuse to give up the support they get from underwire bras.

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  • Yes, many people still own cordless phones because they don't trust solely using their cell phones 100 percent or those who refuse to get a cell phone just on principle.

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  • As long as there is no law requiring anything more than the rabies booster, you have the right to refuse the rest and opt for the every three years plan.

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  • Also, some cats refuse to use a litter box that isn't clean.

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  • Most cats want their litter box clean and may refuse to use it if it is not clean.

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  • The cat may also lose his appetite and refuse to come and eat when called.

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  • Although Nestle's decision to stop making Tender Vittles may seem understandable to most pet owners, there are a few finicky cats that simply refuse to eat anything other than this food.

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  • The problem is that many cats do not like the feel of it and will refuse to use it.

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  • Some cats don't care for covered boxes and refuse to use them.

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  • However, it is possible that your finicky feline will refuse to change to another type of litter, and you'll need to return to the type she prefers.

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  • If a site is too difficult to move around in, younger children, in particular, may refuse to look at the books if they can't maneuver their way through the online pages.

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  • If they get vague or refuse to give you anything in writing, hang up.

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  • The state can refuse to renew a non-custodial parent's occupational or professional licenses if back support is owed.

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  • In addition, the non-custodial parent may not refuse to pay child support on the basis that he/she has not been allowed to see the children.

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  • Try to embrace your new life and refuse to fashion your new life into something your ex-spouse wants you to be.

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  • Or you can reuse plastic bags as garbage and pet refuse bags.

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  • If you refuse to be seen without your purring cat eye makeup, consider waterproof eyeliner to be your new best friend.

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  • Refuse to be a slave to the trends of the moment and go instead for shades that are universally flattering to brown eyes.

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  • A character that goes to work day in and day out and never gets to play can become downright depressed and refuse to go to work.

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  • If someone wants something different, politely refuse and if it's possible for you, offer to make it another time.

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  • They may also refuse to eat after a binge or exercise to the point of exhaustion trying to work the calories off.

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  • If some of your "friends" are pressuring you, you may wonder why they won't take "no" for an answer or why you feel so guilty and afraid to refuse what they want you to do.

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  • Refuse to travel with anyone who you think may be impaired.

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  • Other creative ways for it to enter the country include hiding the drug in refuse, furniture, or figurines.

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  • Sometimes they can say they are adventurous because they climbed Mount Everest alone, but then they refuse to take part in a similar yet not-so-adventurous activity like climbing a rock wall at a local amusement park.

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  • Many addicts refuse to face the reality of their situation.

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  • Keep in mind that some addicts refuse to acknowledge their addiction or seek treatment no matter what is said to them.

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  • We refuse to accept bogus excuses for your behavior."

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  • There are some children who refuse to go out in public wearing anything but name brand clothing.

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  • Secondly, remember your child is still growing, and will most likely refuse to wear the clothes you just purchased once the trend turns over.

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  • Many parents refuse to go the extra mile when selecting baby dresses because a child will only be able to wear the selected dress a certain amount of times before the item is outgrown.

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