Another way the state governments in the South acted against blacks was by refusing to give them the right to vote.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

I was kicked out of school when I was in third grade for refusing to salute the flag.

我在三年级的时候,因为拒绝向国旗敬礼而被退学。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But even if you do survive-- let's the ground floor-- even if you do survive, you would lead a life of constant frustration-- refusing to accept something that is there whether you like it or not.

即使你幸存下来-,比如你在一楼-,就算你真得幸存下来，你的生活将是处处受挫-,拒绝接受现实事物,不论你喜欢与否。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The book opens with the young man, Francis Marion Tarwater, refusing to do the two things his grandfather had ordered him to do.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

But it gets back to the question, are the reasons Socrates gives Crito for refusing to escape, the reasons he puts in the mouth of the laws of the city of Athens, ? are those Socrates' true reasons?

但这带回到那个问题，到底苏格拉底给克里托,拒绝越狱的理由，他以雅典城邦法律立场,所说的理由，是苏格拉底真正的理由吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He lost Conkling's support by refusing to name one of Conkling's supporters Secretary of the Treasury.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

In the first speech of the Apology, he defies the city to put him to death by expressing indifference to death and then in the Crito, he very much expresses that indifference to death by refusing to allow Crito to let him escape.

苏格拉底自辩篇》的第一场申辩中，他抗拒城邦处他死刑,理由是他根本漠视死亡,但之后在《克里托篇》,他表述漠视死亡的方式,变成拒绝让克里托助他逃亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Burnside had replaced General George McClellan, when McClellan kept refusing to obey President Lincoln's orders.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

"We can best show our joy by refusing to celebrate their downfall."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Montclin disliked Cazeau for refusing to lend him money long ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

He rejected it, refusing even to send it to London.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The U.N.Security Council has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium at home.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Some of the displaced are now refusing to go, arguing it will only help the Janjaweed achieve its goal of displacing them.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

But the captain was killed after reportedly refusing to turn the ship back out to sea.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

But opposition groups are refusing to take part in that domestic inquiry and say they will not join regional mediation efforts unless Captain Camara steps down.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The Maoists want them integrated into the army, but other parties are refusing.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Kunda Dixit,editor of Nepali Times, says the three main parties are refusing to step aside because they want a decisive say in the writing of the new constitution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Lloyds of London began refusing to insure ships sailing to Iran,last week.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

But Wednesday,the U.S.Senate joined the House in refusing the president's request for $80 million to close Guantanamo, saying he must first come up with a concrete plan to deal with the remaining 240 detainees.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

They are certainly regrettable and horrible in terms of loss of life, but the reaction from the Iraqi people and the Iraqi leaders was firm and united in rejecting that violence and refusing to allow it to set Iraqi against Iraqi, which is obviously one of its intended goals,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.25