Say no to - rubbish

Usage examples of refuse.

Captain Nekrasov refused to accommodate me, but his sergeant proved far more generous with the facts.

Jeanneney and Herriot respectively, refused to attend the social functions accorded the Nazi visitor.

What it had refused the Allies the year before it accorded to Nazi Germany.

Bass refused, usually because Enron wanted accounting results divorced from economics.

It was wider than an urban walkway, so she could easily have gone upright, but her acrophobia refused to allow her to let go with her hands.

NSA was the unwanted stepchild of powerful spymasters such as Allen Dulles, who refused its director a seat on the Intelligence Advisory Committee.

I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible.

I am convinced, have it said of you, that, after having affronted a noble peer, you refuse him satisfaction.

Swedish majesty, by the advice of the senate, thought proper to refuse complying with this request, alleging, that as the crown of Sweden was one of the principal guarantees of the treaty of Westphalia, it would be highly improper to take such a step in favour of a prince who had not only broke the laws and constitution of the empire, in refusing to furnish his contingent, but had even assisted, with his troops, a power known to be its declared enemy.

Eric sometimes beat the walls with his fists or shrieked when he was denied a game or treat, and since he wasted his own allotment, his mother often had to refuse his requests for part of hers.

It is a very ancient reproach, suggested by the ignorance or the malice of infidelity, that the Christians allured into their party the most atrocious criminals, who, as soon as they were touched by a sense of remorse, were easily persuaded to wash away, in the water of baptism, the guilt of their past conduct, for which the temples of the gods refused to grant them any expiation.

The love of rapine and war allured to the Imperial standard several tribes of Saracens, or roving Arabs, whose service Julian had commanded, while he sternly refused the payment of the accustomed subsidies.

Congress of the United States, which failed or refused to exercise its power and authority to annul the same.

Reichstag refused to renew the antisocialist laws, Engels looked confidently to these two disciples to lead the SPD on the right course.

Ranging the continent literally from Georgia to Maine, with all his weaknesses and indiscretions, and with his incomparable eloquence, welcomed by every sect, yet refusing an exclusive allegiance to any, Whitefield exercised a true apostolate, bearing daily the care of all the churches, and becoming a messenger of mutual fellowship not only between the ends of the continent, but between the Christians of two hemispheres.