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Candappa refused to accept her decision, according to the complaint.
But Sisi and his administration refused to accept this possibility.
Mr. Ayers refused to accept two plea deals offered by prosecutors.
But Erdogan refused to accept the result and forced a rerun.
Athens has long refused to accept its neighbor as just 'Macedonia'.
Washington knew how important protocol was, and refused to accept them.
Lam also refused to accept the protesters' demands for political concessions.
Yes, there is something unnatural, which I have refused to accept.
Maduro also refused to accept the humanitarian crisis in his country.
North Korea has refused to accept that the victim of the Feb.
She offered them aid, but her parents refused to accept her help.
Zimbabwe dollarised when citizens refused to accept payments in the local money.
One of the commanders said he refused to accept the 250 fighters.
Police said they had refused to accept lodging offered by the city.
Similarly, Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused to accept basic limits on this authority.
From then on I refused to accept to stay at home anymore.
Mr. Trump also refused to accept polling showing him running behind Mrs.
His family initially refused to accept that Moochie had committed the murder.
But the sellers changed their minds and refused to accept the money.
But Cuba refused to accept the refugees, as did other Caribbean countries.
The President, as has been reported previously, refused to accept the offer.
Lam also again refused to accept the protesters' demands for political concessions.
After 1865, white people in the South refused to accept black voting rights.
She refused to accept any jail time and thought the DA was bluffing.
Barrow won an election in December, but Jammeh refused to accept the result.
There was just one suggestion from Ms. Brock that he refused to accept.
Sources said Symantec refused to accept less than $21 a share from Broadcom.
Brazil's environmental regulator Ibama has repeatedly refused to accept Total's environmental impact study.
He too thought it was stress, but she refused to accept that answer.
In an unprecedented display of defiance, La Liga refused to accept the payment.
But Japan has refused to accept him and could force him to leave.
"[My manager] said I refused to accept my mind was deteriorating," Krantz said.
But he still refused to accept that Mr. Obama's birth certificate was authentic.
Donald Trump refused to accept it, saying she had made an honest mistake.
Many mainstream Republicans refused to accept that Trump was one of their own.
Put another way, parliament tried to surrender; the court refused to accept it.
I'd Preet refused to accept the President's call, he deserved to be fired.
May's plan three times — and Mr. Johnson has refused to accept it either.
According to a profile in The Oregonian, he refused to accept campaign donations.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have refused to accept money from super PACs.
Germany also refused to accept Mr. Palij, who was never a German citizen.
What there hasn't been is a sitting President who refused to accept the results.
" Loughlin apparently "refused to accept any jail time and thought the DA was bluffing.
The opposition party refused to accept the outcome of the election or its legitimacy.
The PA has refused to accept any tax transfers until those funds are restored.
She said the local mosques refused to accept her because she is a lesbian.
Maduro has refused to accept food and medicine donations, despite the deepening healthcare crisis.
The Lebanese president has refused to accept Hariri's resignation until he returns to Lebanon.
Some major banks refused to accept them and the state's credit rating was downgraded.
The CRPA sent its condolences to the shooting's victims but refused to accept blame.
But protestors – ostensibly representing the Tunisian people – refused to accept any "renewal" of elites.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun has refused to accept the resignation until Hariri comes home.
The country's fascists refused to accept this and executed them for it in 1943.
A 2013 Pew survey found that 93% of the country refused to accept homosexuality.
But Trump has refused to accept this balanced approach, instead opting to scapegoat immigrants.
Aoun refused to accept Hariri's resignation unless he tendered it in person in Lebanon.
Aoun had previously refused to accept the resignation unless it was made in person.
While Israel said it would welcome the musicians, it refused to accept Mr. Karajan.
Al-Qaida's central leadership refused to accept the takeover and broke with al-Baghdadi.
Congress refused to accept its dissolution and voted to suspend Mr Vizcarra as president.
Moscow refused to accept production cuts to offset the effect of the coronavirus outbreak.
Just as Trump refused to accept the number of votes he received in 2016, and just as he refused to accept the number of people who attended his inauguration in 2017, he can refuse to recognize the number of Democratic seats in 85033.
Fiercely anti-fascist, Toscanini refused to accept accolades from a government he did not like.
The exhibition includes a portrait of his sister, Sarah, who refused to accept his death.
Australia refused to accept the group, though the processing center is run on its behalf.
Moore has denied the allegations, but Twitter refused to accept his denial of the situation.
Many scientists refused to accept that decision, especially Alan Stern, finding it to be arbitrary.
In 2006, Mr. Ehrlich tried to find angel investors, but refused to accept the terms.
" Harry recalls his initial reaction to his mother's death as "disbelief, refused to accept it.
By Monday, supplies were running low and Malta had also refused to accept the immigrants.
But when they walked the petitions into the council clerk, she refused to accept them.
Last week, Sion dismissed nine players, saying they had refused to accept a wage cut.
Bacca put out his hand to help Stones up, but Stones refused to accept it.
President Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah ally, refused to accept his resignation while he remained abroad.
The nationalist Serb-dominated Serb Republic has refused to accept any migrants on its territory.
The judge refused to accept the video of his arrest as evidence during the trial.
The U.S. team refused to accept their silver medals, arguing they had been robbed of victory.
The loser, Prabowo Subianto, has refused to accept the result of April's ballot, alleging widespread fraud.
With President Obama, they have largely refused to accept the basic legitimacy of a Democratic president.
Wiesel adamantly refused to accept the White House's attempt to play with history for ideological purposes.
The first was in 230, when he refused to accept defeat in that year's presidential election.
The trouble is that after the Lehman Brothers collapse, central bankers refused to accept this fact.
Mr Salvini refused to accept Five Star's demands to leave Forza Italia out in the cold.
He declined an invitation to attend Monday, then refused to accept a subpoena issued Tuesday night.
He has refused to accept some police may be systematically executing suspected dealers, as activists say.
This destruction of government property won him three years in jail, which he refused to accept.
Sundance refused to accept the film, and Solondz had problems getting it properly distributed and advertised.
Russia, which has always denied state-sponsored doping, has refused to accept all the report's findings.
Ingraham apologized, but Hogg refused to accept, accusing her of just trying to save her advertisers.
A planned visit by Callamard in December was canceled because she refused to accept Duterte's conditions.
Male Muslim refugees who refused to accept food from female volunteers should go hungry, she said.
The City of Moscow did offer financial help, but the theater refused to accept state money.
But notably, the State Department has refused to accept another democratic element in Iraq -- the law.
So far, he has publicly refused to accept the conclusion that Russia is responsible for the attacks.
Pluto evangelists have refused to accept the definition and have been calling for a reversal ever since.
Some preexisting women's groups resisted this merger, and then, after acceding, refused to accept a subordinate status.
In a similar case in Australia, a jury refused to accept that abortion pills were "noxious substances".
Gandhi announced his intention to resign in May but senior party leaders refused to accept the notice.
In late 1993, Space Biosphere Ventures refused to accept Bannon's proposal to remove top Biosphere 2 management.
The former power forward went on Dan Le Batard's show Tuesday and refused to accept any invitation.
His hardline supporters have so far refused to accept authority of Seraj's U.N.-backed government in Tripoli.
With the exception of Hungary, central European countries have refused to accept any significant number of migrants.
Snap chief executive Evan Spiegel "refused to accept" that there was a growth problem, The Information reported.
Its government has refused to accept an OECD-led international standard on the exchange of tax information.
On Sunday, President Sergio Mattarella refused to accept the nomination of a euroskeptic candidate for economy minister.
But CNN has refused to accept the validity of any of these polls, and for good reason.
When the court refused to accept them, Duda, the president, went ahead and swore them in anyway.
But a defiant Williams refused to accept there would not be another Grand Slam in her future.
According to Schiff, Powell "refused to accept service" of the subpoena issued by the panel in June.
The New Mexico State Land Office refused to accept the check, in part prompting the court action.
The review did not specify which organizations have refused to accept the restrictions and therefore lose funding.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has so far refused to accept the Senate committee's invitation to show up.
The Dutch authorities, who had refused to accept Carvajal's appointment, did initially fulfil the international arrest warrant.
Jammeh lost an election in December to the now President Adama Barrow but refused to accept the result.
She refused to accept, saying she did not want her husband's death to be used for political mileage.
US officials have refused to accept that claim, though they have not yet presented evidence that implicates Iran.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun has refused to accept the resignation until Hariri returns to present it in person.
In the statement, McIver offered to resign but said the GOP presidential nominee refused to accept her resignation.
Mr. Sanders's campaign spokesman, Michael Briggs, issued a sharply worded statement that refused to accept the A.P. survey.
But, suspicious of medical opinion, Kidder refused to accept the finding — or to take lithium, the recommended treatment.
The couple refused to accept the idea of Mr. Daleel as a terrorist who supported the Islamic State.
And when he did finally dredge up his longform birth certificate in 2011, Trump refused to accept it.
Male Muslim refugees who refused to accept food from female volunteers should go hungry, Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer said.
When Cilley refused to accept the letter, Graves felt insulted and made his own duel challenge to Cilley.
Mr. Son said companies have not refused to accept money from his fund because of Mr. Khashoggi's killing.
We're told they refused to accept any free items and would only pay for the items they selected.
Since the election, many of those who voted for Hillary Clinton have refused to accept the election result.
In fact, Clinton's Secret Service delegation and campaign aides refused to accept the summons, according to court documents.
He was eventually handed a less important portfolio after the head of state refused to accept his nomination.
He favored civil rights, gun control and environmental causes and refused to accept contributions from political action committees.
Aoun has called Hariri a Saudi hostage and refused to accept his resignation unless he returns to Lebanon.
The report, which Aso has refused to accept, was meant to highlight the need to plan ahead for retirement.
While that article is key for the CFDT, the CGT and smaller FO union have refused to accept it.
City officials claim Cudahy also refused to accept the criminal complaint when he was served with the court documents.
The plan didn't turn out the way that Tucson's economic group had hoped: Amazon refused to accept the gift.
Sudan and Ethiopia say Egypt has refused to accept amendments that they had put forward to the environmental report.
The first, in 2005, was brought on by Germany and France, who refused to accept disciplinary procedures against them.
He told Sorkin that when he was sentenced, Gates had been supportive and initially refused to accept Gupta's resignation.
It was a recommendation the producer, known for inspirational sports movies like The Rookie and Miracle, refused to accept.
Hudson said Matson refused to accept a coupon she had received in the mail to replace a defective product.
A small group of conservatives refused to accept that the debt ceiling had to be raised by the Aug.
It awarded several territories, including the flashpoint town of Badme, to Eritrea, but Ethiopia refused to accept the decision.
" YSP-East portrayed Ms. Wicks-Lim as a mother "who refused to accept responsibility for her son's medical condition.
They have refused to accept any changes to this failure in order to make it fiscally sane and affordable.
Consequently, the Charity Bird Hospital refused to accept the kite — a carnivore — that Mr. Shehzad and Mr. Saud found.
Aoun, a political ally of Hezbollah, had refused to accept the resignation because it happened in "mysterious circumstances" abroad.
The targets of his outbursts were numerous and varied: artists, jaywalkers, ferret owners, the state of Virginia (which refused to accept the city's garbage), local black leaders (who refused to accept his approach to fighting crime), even his second wife, Donna Hanover (who learned on television that they were getting a divorce).
The explanation for these contradictory outcomes has always been obvious, and yet for years we have refused to accept it.
He said Albanian authorities had often refused to accept migrants turned back from Montenegro under their bilateral re-admission agreement.
China did not participate in and has refused to accept the July 12 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
For years Greece refused to accept the name Macedonia, saying it implied territorial claims on the Greek province of Macedonia.
It has halted training of Turkish pilots in the United States on the aircraft and refused to accept any others.
A 50-year-old mother of two committed suicide in Gujarat after grocery stores refused to accept old currency notes.
On Wednesday, The Information also reported CEO Evan Spiegel "refused to accept" the company was facing a user growth issue.
But North Korea has refused to accept his demand that it commit to denuclearization as a goal before talks begin.
While some people were alarmed, the pastor, Ms. Rube, said she refused to accept the idea that Kiribati could disappear.
Jammeh plunged Gambia into turmoil in December when he refused to accept losing to Adama Barrow, demanding a new poll.
Aoun, who has refused to accept Hariri's resignation unless he returns to Lebanon, has accused Riyadh of holding Hariri hostage.
Gandhi, 49, announced his decision to quit as Congress leader in May, but the party leadership refused to accept it.
Yet Mr. Mahathir refused to accept that Mr. Anwar's conviction for sodomy and corruption was in any way politically motivated.
The Russian did provide information on Mr. Trump, which intelligence agencies refused to accept and remains with the American businessman.
Rick Perry and current Governor Abbott refused to accept federal funds for the expansion of Medicaid — $10 billion a year.
The State Department, though, refused to accept the parliament's decision, and President Trump threatened to sanction Iraq over the vote.
The African island of Mauritius has already refused to accept Alitalia passengers from northern Italy unless they go into quarantine.
The charges are related to a disputed election in 2010 in which Mr Gbagbo refused to accept he had lost.
When the reader tried to pay for her Times subscription, the online payment system refused to accept her last name.
The mischief didn't keep him from losing narrowly, and in the second act, McCrory initially refused to accept the outcome.
Germany has refused to accept slightly higher domestic inflation as a condition for letting the rest of the eurozone grow.
More than 3,000 people were killed after Mr. Gbagbo refused to accept his defeat by the current president, Alassane Ouattara.
And Lebanon's president, Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah ally, refused to accept the resignation unless Mr. Hariri delivered it in person.
Even when the cardinal's men persuaded him to continue the conversation, he refused to accept the order's plan for renewal.
Many Poles have refused to accept such findings, which have challenged a national narrative that the country was solely a victim.
Residents say many inhabitants have refused to accept compensation, demanding instead that authorities help renovate crumbling structures rather that destroy them.
Winkfield refused to accept the conclusion and took Jahi to New Jersey, which accommodates religions that don&apost recognize brain death.
Rahul Gandhi, 49, announced his decision to quit as Congress leader in May, but the party leadership refused to accept it.
Cara grew up in foster care with older sister Mel, whose father Michael Farrow refused to accept he was her dad.
Kusama, ostentatiously female and Japanese, demanded attention and refused to accept the biases and power structures that precluded artists like her.
Grant, understandably, was pissed off, but when he confronted Lace about it she refused to accept any of the blame whatsoever.
Aoun has refused to accept the resignation unless the premier returns to Lebanon, and has accused Riyadh of holding Hariri hostage.
VC said Ryanair had refused to accept two members of a delegation that the union nominated to hold talks with management.
He's had no further trouble with the law, and was never deported, because Iraq had for decades refused to accept deportees.
Mr. Besigye, claiming that he had won the election, refused to accept the official results, which gave victory to Mr. Museveni.
The pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has repeatedly refused to accept a series of preconditions set down by Sinn Fein.
One of the diplomats, the Iranian consul in Najaf, was upset, Dr. al-Kindi said, and refused to accept the news.
But Republicans are threatening to oppose it after Waters refused to accept changes they wanted to see made to the bank.
Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has refused to accept an ultimatum from European countries calling for free elections.
The facility did not have a specialist on hand, so it contacted a nearby general hospital, which refused to accept her.
The U.S. government considered Iraq one of the recalcitrant countries that refused to accept back people ordered deported by U.S. immigration courts.
Israeli officials have refused to accept responsibility for specific attacks, preferring to maintain ambiguity in part to lower the risk of retaliation.
Ethiopia had refused to accept the deal&aposs handing of key locations to Eritrea and the countries have skirmished over the years.
At the same time, the pope refused to accept Pell's mandatory resignation last year, after Pell's first set of testimonies last year.
This particular concession was secured after the EU refused to accept a Swiss vote in 2014 to set limits on free movement.
By the time she left Le Cirque at age 24, she refused to accept anything less than an executive pastry chef position.
Some Hindu temples and vegetarian cafes refused to accept the new five pound note which features World War Two leader Winston Churchill.
Two decades on, Ethiopia still occupies the disputed territories, including Badme, having refused to accept the findings of a UN boundary commission.
Spiegel initially refused to accept there was a user growth problem caused by Instagram's competition despite the evidence, sources told The Information.
He also said that he had refused to accept a severance payment that was contingent on his signing a non-disparagement agreement.
The court refused to accept copies of vote tally sheets provided as evidence by Ping, many of which it said were illegible.
However, Republicans have refused to accept the department's conclusion and have accused officials, including Comey, of creating a double standard for Clinton.
Lyon was told the gold medal was his by default but he refused to accept a medal not won fairly in competition.
The Tiananmen crackdown is a taboo subject in China and authorities have refused to accept full accountability or release the death toll.
When Cilley refused to accept the letter, Graves interpreted it as an insult to his character and challenged Cilley to a duel.
In May 1939, the U.S. government refused to accept over 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the ship SS St. Louis.
Kenneth Branagh, director, "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994) The idea of a man who refused to accept the idea of ordinary human loss.
Lebanese authorities have refused to accept Hariri's resignation until he accounts for his reasons in person, believing it was made under duress.
Comey felt bound to appease the Clinton-haters because they refused to accept any process that failed to yield their preferred outcome.
He was once deported, but when his native Italy refused to accept him, he was allowed to stay in the United States.
Months after taking office, Macri reached a deal with hedge funds that had refused to accept a haircut on Argentina's defaulted debt.
His $80 million haul smashed fundraising records for Senate campaigns, even as O'Rourke refused to accept donations from all political action committees.
Among the demonstrators, who numbered in the thousands, was the opposition candidate, Salvador Nasralla, who has refused to accept the election results.
Hamilton refused to accept a limit on the pardon power, even for those who conspire with the president, even for the president himself.
Ethiopia had refused to accept the deal&aposs handing to Eritrea of key locations, including the town of Badme, which it still holds.
The airline has refused to accept four A320neos so far this year over performance issues with the aircraft's engines, a spokeswoman told Reuters.
Jammeh, who is accused of serious rights violations, led his country for 22 years but refused to accept defeat in a December election.
Jammeh pitched Gambia into turmoil in December when he refused to accept his loss in an election to Barrow and demanded another vote.
When Lincoln refused to accept southern secession, the result was the Civil War—still the nation's deadliest conflict in terms of total casualties.
Newspapers said he refused to accept a new post, although a source close to May denied that, and said Hunt simply persuaded her.
Gaul Allegedly 'Refused to Accept' the Breakup: Gaul became obsessed with Walker after they broke up, according to authorities and her family members.
His case was against the girl's parents, but police refused to accept it because there was no law criminalizing the practice, he said.
I mean GEICO had a CEO in the early '220s who refused to accept the fact that the lost reserves were developing badly.
Because the U.N. has refused to accept the legitimacy of the federal case, Justice Department lawyers have defended the organization instead in court.
Talks in deadlock: Mugabe has refused to accept a deal with the military that will allow him to resign without being forced out.
The hedge funds refused to accept a steep discount in two restructurings over the years, while others took 22016 cents on the dollar.
When Peipei refused to accept any solution but a consummation of her love, her grandfather had to summon Mr. Wu through a secretary.
It was pretty brutal up until I was 40, but then I refused to accept any of the frequently offered jobs teaching writing.
North Korea has refused to accept the dead man was Kim Jong Un's half brother, suggesting instead he died of a heart attack.
The speaker of a reconvened Parliament has twice, amid tremendous disruption, held no-confidence votes, which Mr. Rajapaksa lost and refused to accept.
US officials have refused to accept that and insist Iran is responsible, though they have not yet presented evidence to support the claim.
Europe&aposs aviation regulator even refused to accept the US&aposs work on the plane, saying it would also recertify the plane itself.
Then the case took an unusual turn: Mr. Hernandez refused to accept a plea bargain that would have kept him out of prison.
Tensions heightened during the past two years after Morocco refused to accept the appointment of a new UN personal envoy to Western Sahara.
Trump famously asked consumers to boycott Apple after they refused to accept an FBI order to de-encrypt an iPhone used by a terrorist.
She refused to accept the social codes that require women to remain silent and ashamed of the abuses to which they have been subjected.
Ethiopia had refused to accept the terms that gave Eritrea control of key locations, including the city of Badme, which Ethiopia continues to control.
As the New York Times noted on Friday, if Musk had refused to accept a settlement the matter could have dragged on for years.
Winkfield refused to accept the conclusion and took her daughter for care in New Jersey, which accommodates religions that don&apost recognize brain death.
The main opposition parties confirmed the impasse, saying some politicians refused to accept the voters because the country's electoral law excludes voting by witness.
Retailers refused to accept the bills, worth around $7.50 and $173 respectively, and people were unable to access ATMs after banks closed them down.
The OIC also refused to accept any proposal for peaceful settlement that did not accord with Palestinians' legitimate inalienable rights, the final statement said.
Same-sex relations have never been illegal either, even if a 2013 Pew survey found that 93% of the country refused to accept homosexuality.
We've all been there, but, unlike most of us, this passenger refused to accept that he'd be trapped in Melbourne for another goddamn minute.
They have refused to accept that the Republican Party is no longer the white, suburban, corporate — you know, folks that go to the club.
"Regretfully, employee representatives have refused to accept this benefits package and have instead elected to declare an industrial dispute with the company," it said.
When I tried to point out that such stories were demonstrably false, they generally refused to accept evidence that came from outside their bubble.
Kamaru ain't exactly confident the fight will actually happen ... saying Colby has refused to accept the match on 4 other occasions in the past.
But some landlords have still refused to accept vouchers, city officials said, which is against the law for buildings with six apartments or more.
But when Escamilla's grieving family sought redress — suing Amazon, Inpax, and Gray for wrongful death — the e-commerce giant refused to accept any responsibility.
But Trump refused to accept that his ally was in any way responsible for Khashoggi's murder, ignoring what the intelligence community was telling him.
The alternative to budget reform was to enact new taxes on citizens to compensate for the shortfall — something the governor wisely refused to accept.
But my grandmother, whose parents moved from Sicily to Brooklyn, where she was born and grew up speaking Italian, refused to accept the findings.
Numerous scientists have long argued that the base was the source of the outbreak, but for years United Nations officials refused to accept responsibility.
He has refused to accept medical care as well as food, and he is now a skeletal figure who hovers in and out of consciousness.
Then last season, Frankel refused to accept Singer's multiple apologies for bringing up Frankel's naked film past in the context of her young daughter Bryn.
President Michel Aoun, a political ally of Hezbollah, has called Hariri a Saudi hostage and refused to accept his resignation unless he returns to Lebanon.
Her mother refused to accept the conclusion and took her daughter for care in New Jersey, which accommodates religions that don&apost recognize brain death.
Broward finished their machine recount, but Supervisor of Elections Barbara Snipes turned in the ballots two minutes late, and the state refused to accept them.
Today you build upon that foundation laid by countless workers before you who refused to accept things as they were and built a better world.
Zuschlag, who came out as transgender in 2015, transferred to Noble High School in Maine after Tri-City Christian Academy refused to accept his transition.
The national police chief had refused to accept Sirisena's request to step down, two sources told Reuters on Saturday, a further embarrassment for the president.
For some eastern Christians (those who refused to accept a calendar reform in the 1920s), the Nativity feast comes to a head today and tomorrow.
For months he refused to accept my long-distance phone calls and scrawled, "Return to Sender" on the envelopes of the letters I sent him.
The tariffs were imposed on Canada, Mexico and the European Union after they refused to accept quotas in negotiations with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Officials in other states, including Indiana and Oklahoma, have publicly refused to accept Syrian refugees as well, but only Texas and Alabama filed federal lawsuits.
However, hostilities resumed after Ethiopia refused to accept the 2002 ruling of a UN boundary commission regarding the border town of Badme and surrounding areas.
The British government, along with the Trump administration, condemned the actions as a Russian operation and refused to accept the denials of the Russian government.
That should have been enough, but Ali still refused to accept the call of retirement and fought Trevor Berbick in 1981, losing by unanimous decision.
While President Nicolás Maduro has refused to accept foreign aid to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis, Venezuela's Democratic Unity coalition welcomes international support and cooperation.
The women tried to give the police a typed request for them to drop the case, but they said the police refused to accept it.
Judge Dlott refused to accept standard procedures and insisted upon upholding the public interest in opening court records, especially in a case involving public safety.
To the contrary, I'm told that I liked to proclaim myself a scientist and refused to accept things I could not see, test and prove.
Ultimately, Melissa refused to accept payment of over half of the money still owed to her, stating that she could no longer accept the money.
Instead, like most young people, I had solid convictions that I refused to accept weren't truly mine but rather a contradictory cluster of inherited principles.
Haftar, who this month declared victory over rival armed groups in the battle for Libya's second city Benghazi, has refused to accept the government's legitimacy.
She complained about the news vendors who refused to accept cash, the taxis that ignored her, the smartphones that wouldn't respond to her elderly fingers.
Venezuelans rushed to exchange their bills, only to find that banks refused to accept them because they had no larger bills to offer in exchange.
Hussein said she was betrothed at the age of 16 but refused to accept the union and sought refuge with a relative for three years.
Vela and Pérez refused to accept their dismissal, and Pérez rushed downtown to seal their offices, in order to protect the integrity of the investigation.
When Browder refused to accept Soviet criticism of his policies the following year, he, too, was unceremoniously removed — expelled from the party for his heresy.
Athens refused to accept it, saying it implied territorial claims over the Greek province of Macedonia and an appropriation of ancient Greek culture and civilization.
His argument was that "it's not a Christmas movie unless someone saves Christmas," and he refused to accept that Christmas was saved for Kevin McAllister.
North Korea has refused to accept the dead man is leader Kim Jong Un's half brother, and has suggested the victim died of a heart attack.
Athens has long refused to accept its neighbor as just 'Macedonia' and the name dispute has frozen Skopje's efforts to join NATO and the European Union.
But I have felt overwhelming pain because America refused to accept me until President Obama signed the DACA executive order that President Trump may now revoke.
ICE officials maintained in court that it was Goldsmith's order that had stopped a repatriation flight when in fact Iraq had refused to accept the flight.
If Zuma had refused to accept the party's call, he would have forced parliament to initiate a vote of no confidence — the seventh in his presidency.
But, facing the prospect of becoming the first governor of North Carolina to fail in a re-election bid, Mr McCrory has refused to accept defeat.
Mr Erdogan's party, which lost in most of the country's big cities, has so far refused to accept its narrow defeat in the Istanbul mayoral contest.
But Haftar, who this month declared victory over rival armed groups in the battle for Libya's second city Benghazi, has refused to accept the government's legitimacy.
With Cinderella panache and a sunny outlook, Ms. Lee simply refused to accept that she had moved to a town where the odds were against her.
The Polish government has adamantly refused to accept an EU-mandated quota of refugees, with Kaczynski personally blaming German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the migrant influx.
For instance, the President listed GOP candidates who refused to accept his support -- or what he called "the embrace" -- at a post-midterm election news conference.
Hudson said she tried to use a manufacturer coupon to replace a defective product, which the manager on duty refused to accept, saying it looked fraudulent.
Despite having little money, he refused to accept funding from the federal government because of disagreements stemming from how it handled the funding for Mt. Rushmore.
From the start, China refused to participate in the tribunal proceedings and has since refused to accept the ruling, while showing its defiance in numerous ways.
Italy's head of state, who was installed by a previous pro-EU government, refused to accept the nomination of euroskeptic candidate Paolo Savona for economy minister.
Citing the success of her first season, the new commissions and ticket sales, she said Mr. Hesse had refused to accept her decisions and artistic vision.
But a group of religiously affiliated nonprofits, mainly but not exclusively Catholic-run schools, colleges, nursing homes and other social service organizations, refused to accept it.
When authorities refused to accept the name, he instructed them to register his son as "Johan-Jordi" if they had such a big problem with it.
His co-winner and Vietnamese counterpart, Foreign Minister Le Duc Tho, refused to accept the prize, the only person to do so in the award's history.
When, on a spring night in 1986, "ethereal blue-white light" exploded above the Chernobyl nuclear plant, officials refused to accept the scale of the emergency.
She was on the wrong side of history and all the pundits that enabled her delusions merely refused to accept the new reality of American politics.
North Korea has refused to accept the dead man was leader Kim Jong Un's half brother, and has suggested the victim died of a heart attack.
Instead, the hearing became a surreal spectacle in which one side tried to address an issue that the other side largely refused to accept is valid.
But Democrats refused to accept that explanation, noting that Mr. Trump had tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act during his entire first year in office.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, backed by the Spanish constitutional court, says the vote was illegal and has refused to accept the legitimacy of its results.
North Korea has refused to accept that the dead man is leader Kim Jong Un's half brother, and has suggested the victim died of a heart attack.
Winkfield refused to accept the California doctors&apos conclusions and took her daughter to New Jersey, a state that accommodates religions that don&apost recognize brain death.
Barack Obama's presidency was a clear turning point since his campaign drew on activists who refused to accept the inevitable shift of the party toward the center.
That's partially because the import/export manager refused to accept his rejection and went in to see Hannah after she confirmed that she was sending him home.
The Russian government has also refused to accept the international consensus that Syria carried out a chemical attack on its own civilians -- which prompted the US strike.
Walker's aunt, Jenny Weldon, told the Knoxville News Sentinel that her niece had ended a relationship with Gaul weeks ago, but he allegedly refused to accept it.
Deals also have been sidelined as investors refused to accept promises of future operating synergies, insisting that any asset purchases must already be generating significant cash flow.
"Evidently, they don't like us very much [in the cities]," Morales said at a press conference on Monday at which he refused to accept the partial result.
The president-elect had previously and repeatedly refused to accept the intelligence community's conclusions and treated the assessment as an attack on his legitimacy of his presidency.
On a continent where Russia's territorial maneuvering is feared, he yet again refused to accept allegations that Moscow was solely responsible for interference in the US election.
The last time a large part of the electorate refused to accept the clear results of a presidential election, it triggered the start of the Civil War.
Perry said the property management company initially refused to accept his money but is now working with the family to allow them to stay in the apartment.
Greece refused to accept the country's name, saying it implied territorial claims on the Greek province of Macedonia and amounted to an appropriation of its ancient civilization.
President Sergio Mattarella, who was installed by a previous pro-EU government, refused to accept the nomination of euroskeptic candidate Paolo Savona for economy minister on Sunday.
"I don't think we've had a serious national leader say that since the Confederate leaders of 1860 who refused to accept the election of Lincoln," he said.
Haqq previously left a comment on her own Instagram account that appeared to label Woods a "coward" who refused to accept blame for her hookup with Thompson.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to accept the partial tax remittances from Israel, saying the PA is entitled to all the money under interim peace deals.
LaSalle subsequently whittled this down to three months, but Pebblebrook has refused to accept these terms because it believes they would hamper its bid, the source added.
Soro headed a northern rebellion between 2002 and 2011 that helped Ouattara to power after his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept defeat in a 2010 election.
In a later financing round, he refused to accept Alibaba's condition for portfolio companies to eschew Tencent investments, a strategy of the giant to hobble its archrival.
Epstein has said that he refused to accept clients with less than a billion dollars in assets, but Wexner is the only client he has ever named.
Gantz refused to accept defeat when he appeared before his party's supporters at their Tel Aviv headquarters but admitted he shared their feeling of disappointment and pain.
Mr. Buttigieg had already refused to accept money from corporate political action committees and recently signed a pledge refusing money from the oil, gas and coal industries.
Broward County, the scene of several years of vote-counting problems, was two minutes late in reporting its data and state officials refused to accept its tallies.
"The people in the street refused to accept that argument," David Amsalem, a lawmaker from Mr. Netanyahu's party, said on a television panel show on Monday night.
He refused to accept that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, even though the IC found with high confidence that the Kremlin had ordered an interference campaign.
In 2013, the opposition refused to accept the results of a presidential election — results that were not in doubt — and took to the streets with violent protests.
Like some other nations, China, the world's biggest polluter, has refused to accept international monitoring of its emissions and says it will provide data to outside observers.
The 113th Congress most memorably featured the first government shutdown in 17 years when Democrats refused to accept House Republicans' demands to defund the Affordable Care Act.
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg refused to accept a prize from the Nordic Council, a body of Nordic governments, partly because of Norway's backing for Johan Sverdrup.
" But Trump refused to accept that explanation Friday, twice calling for Schiff's resignation and claiming that he "lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public.
Mr. Phillips, who owns a chain of coffee shops and is heir to the Phillips liquor fortune, refused to accept political action committee money of any sort.
Mr. Trump's assertions were replete with misinformation and, when challenged by reporters, he refused to accept statistics produced by his own government that conflicted with his narrative.
Israel has refused to accept refugees fleeing the more than seven-year conflict in Syria, a country with which it remains officially in a state of war.
But throughout all this their mother Harriet refused to accept that they were gone, and spent the better part of three decades trying to get them back.
The President also refused to accept the assessment of his own national security adviser, John Bolton, that North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches infringed UN Security Council resolutions.
Importantly, Barr's letter says Mueller's investigation does back up the intelligence community's overall findings that Russia interfered in the election, an idea Trump has consistently refused to accept.
Mun pointed out that some immigrant youth advocates had already resolutely refused to accept protection for DACA if that meant funding the border wall or more detention centers.
Last week the organisation representing Europe's domestic soccer leagues (EPFL) refused to accept UEFA's proposed changes and said such measures could lead to a private and closed league.
At the time of the Holocaust, there were lots of Jews trying to flee Nazi Germany, and many Western states, including America and Canada, refused to accept them.
At one point, ICE even told Goldsmith that it was his order that had stopped a repatriation flight when in fact Iraq had refused to accept the flight.
The teenagers profiled by Wides-Muñoz refused to accept their parents' ghostlike status, and instead evolved into some of the most politically engaged student leaders in the nation.
But Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, 20, and the student council said they refused to accept the university order against him and four other members, and would appeal against the decision.
For years he refused to accept congressional health insurance on principle and only enrolled in a federal plan after the Affordable Care Act expanded public health care coverage.
They have refused to accept the legitimacy of Ghani's administration, which they call a puppet government backed by the United States, itself trying to end its longest war.
Ending the litigation would be an historic step for Argentina, which has battled creditors who refused to accept the terms of earlier debt restructurings in 2005 and 2010.
Chong complained that after the incident, he needed to take his car to neighbouring Malaysia to get it cleaned, after local car cleaners refused to accept the job.
Duda swore in all five of those judges, but the Constitutional Tribunal has refused to accept them, as their very election violates the tribunal's own December 3 ruling.
Indeed, even after American soldiers saw what had taken place in Buchenwald, Dachau and Auschwitz, the United States still refused to accept most survivors of the concentration camps.
As a result of her passionate activism, Cáceres received death threats for years from those who refused to accept Indigenous rights, especially regarding land ownership and the environment.
Like Trump's questioning of conventional wisdom on the U.S.-China relationship, Tsai, also elected in 2016, refused to accept Beijing's formulation that says Taiwan is part of China.
U.S. officials have refused to accept those terms for Brunson's release and say Gülen, a legal U.S. resident, is entitled to due process before being deported to Turkey.
It failed after House Republicans refused to accept a bipartisan compromise reached in the Senate, and inserted clauses that reignited old disputes over government financing for Planned Parenthood.
The leader of Italy's largest political party has called for President Sergio Mattarella to face impeachment charges after he refused to accept a controversial choice for economy minister.
The airline's response He offered to refund her for the entire trip, Schulman told CNN, but she refused to accept a reimbursement for the flight down to Florida.
The government refused to accept election observers from the European Union and U.S.-based Carter Center, which criticised Kabila's re-election in 2011 as marred by widespread fraud.
But Greece refused to accept the country's name, saying it implied territorial claims on the Greek province of Macedonia and amounted to an appropriation of its ancient civilization.
I refused to accept the diagnosis at first — I remember saying to a friend that I wish the doctor had told me I had a brain tumor instead.
Republican lawmakers in the state have refused to accept the court's decision, asking the Supreme Court to again intervene and block the court-ordered map from taking place.
A senior ministry official refused to accept copies of the photographs of the missing five, or to inquire about them at the Chinese detention centers along the border.
The attempt fizzled when Lebanon's president refused to accept the resignation unless Mr. Hariri delivered it in person, and the normally fractious Lebanese united against the Saudi move.
A governor of Alabama once proclaimed in his inaugural address "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," which young marchers for civil rights and voting rights refused to accept.
Her publisher, Graywolf Press, awarded her its first nonfiction prize for that book, but she refused to accept it because, she said, the book's ending had been censored.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, one of President Emmanuel Macron's closest allies, offered to step down on Monday but Macron refused to accept his resignation, Macron's office said.
Warsaw's right-wing Law and Justice party rose to power as its officials manipulated the news media, threatened judicial independence, refused to accept refugees and stoked ethnic nationalism.
The Democratic Unionist Party, on whom her parliamentary majority rests, had refused to accept any arrangement that separated Northern Ireland in any way from the rest of Britain.
The first significant one was in 1984, when Larry Bird and some of the other Boston Celtics players who won the championship refused to accept Ronald Reagan's invitation.
Soro headed a northern rebellion between 2002 and 2011 that helped President Alassane Ouattara to power after his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept defeat in a 2010 election.
It was hailed as a success by several bipartisan sources, but the Obama Administration refused to accept the plan as a substitute for its individual health insurance coverage mandate.
That includes Democrat Stacey Abrams, who lost in her bid to be governor of Georgia and has refused to accept the results that put Brian Kemp into the office.
The deal marked a key commitment by Qatar Airways to Boeing's new 737 MAX jetliner, after it refused to accept three of Airbus' competing A320 aircraft earlier this year.
As my parents once told a four-year-old me when I refused to accept the passing of Walter,our family Newfoundland, death is just a part of life.
France intervened in the Ivory Coast in 2011 under a U.N. mandate to help oust then-president Laurent Gbagbo after he refused to accept defeat in a disputed election.
Foundation Care produced no records to back up this account, so the agency refused to accept it and cited the pharmacy for not properly documenting and investigating what happened.
However, the FARC refused to accept the core demands of the No side, including stiffer penalties and a ban on political participation for guerrilla leaders responsible for war crimes.
Virginia Roberts and at least a dozen of Epstein's other victims refused to accept the terms agreed to by the US government, and hired attorneys to seek additional damages.
Fritzsche said, meanwhile, that history was on AT&T's side, because DOJ had not refused to accept a vertical merger in the telecom and media space in the past.
The prospect of a Five Star-League government dissolved after Mr Mattarella refused to accept the two parties' choice for finance minister: an 81-year-old Eurosceptic, Paolo Savona.
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said that direct discussions between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Trump may help resolve the issue, though Japan has refused to accept import quotas.
The context: Per the Post, the company sued the U.S. government last month after the Army Corps refused to accept its bid to install barriers along the southern border.
Family planning providers in another 16 countries (also mainly in Africa) lost access to condoms and contraceptives because they refused to accept the conditions of the Mexico City Policy.
The driver said he refused to accept payment using numbers for credit cards that belonged to Absalom, but which she at the time didn't have physically in her possession.
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia's Prime Minister Miro Cerar refused to accept the resignation offered by Finance Minister Dusan Mramor earlier on Monday and praised the minister's achievements in fiscal consolidation.
Washington announced on Wednesday that it would stop issuing some visas after Cambodia refused to accept Cambodian citizens deported from the United States after being convicted of crimes there.
So when my gynecologist called to say I had an abnormal Pap test and tested positive for HPV at my annual visit, my mind initially refused to accept it.
After the election, however, Tsai, constrained by the DPP ideology that Taiwan is not part of China, refused to accept the "1992 Consensus" and the underlying "One China" principle.
The Yale Daily News, which reported their resignations on Wednesday, said that some students refused to accept their diplomas from Dr. Christakis during Silliman College's graduation ceremony on Monday.
Tensions with Malta over migrants rose several days ago when a spat developed over whether Malta had refused to accept another vessel, the Seefuchs, with 119 migrants on board.
I could have become a passive observer to the end of my life as I had known it, but something deep down inside me refused to accept that option.
He helps people without asking for anything in return, like the day he lugged a washing machine into an apartment for his landlord but refused to accept any money.
Jammeh, who had refused to accept his poll defeat to opposition challenger and now president Adama Barrow, flew out of Banjul late on Saturday en route to Equatorial Guinea.
Republicans who'd refused to accept Twitter's initial, consistent explanation of the "shadow ban" appeared no more satisfied at the end of the hearing than they were at the beginning.
He waved away the counterpoint that those disparities exist because nearly 20203 Republican-led states have refused to accept the generous federal funding Obamacare makes available for Medicaid expansion.
West African leaders allowed him to flee to Equatorial Guinea in 2017 after he lost an election, the results of which he had refused to accept for six weeks.
The government refused to accept election observers from the European Union and the U.S.-based Carter Center, which said Kabila's re-election in 2011 was marred by widespread fraud.
The president has pressed for its inclusion in the final spending package before his party loses its House majority in January, a condition Democratic leaders have refused to accept.
Broward County, hammered by President Trump as a den of voter fraud, finished Thursday, but the recount was submitted two minutes late and the state refused to accept it.
European soccer is willing to see the benefits of its power — the wealth that flows from it — but it has, thus far, refused to accept any of the responsibility.
Trump said the magazine tipped him off he would be winning the 2017 award, but that he refused to accept, claiming they wanted an interview and photoshoot in exchange.
However, in a ruling late on Friday, it refused to accept copies of vote tally sheets provided as evidence by Ping, stating he had failed to prove their authenticity.
Poland's far-right has thrived under the conservative Law and Justice government that came to power in 2015 on a platform that refused to accept refugees into the country.
In Delaware, I met a thirteen-year-old trans girl named Trinity who has been homeschooled since kindergarten because her school's administration refused to accept her as a girl.
During the migrant crisis, Berlin was too slow to ask for co-operation from the Poles, who, after Law and Justice took power in 2015, refused to accept any refugees.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to accept partial transfers, saying the PA is entitled to the entire sum of around 700 million ($197 million) shekels, over half its budget.
Al Baker has refused to accept planes with engines made by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, because the engines required additional time to start under certain conditions.
But Republicans refused to accept no for an answer, and responded simply by changing the rules so that 60 votes were no longer needed to advance a Supreme Court nomination.
Reigning Olympic champion James ran the fastest lap of the night to win the sixth heat in 44.93 seconds but refused to accept that he was one of the favorites.
For one thing, he refused to accept the Nets' slump would last beyond this season: "I'm sure, for the next season, we'll be, I hope, a championship contender," he said.
But a final attempt to complete an agreement to fully dismantle North Korea&aposs nuclear program fell through in December2008 when the North refused to accept U.S.-proposed verification methods.
The charges stem from a brief civil war that broke out when her husband, then-president Laurent Gbagbo, refused to accept his defeat by Alassane Ouattara in a 2010 election.
African Americans defied the bridge's history before it was history: the families of the lynching victims in 1918 and 1942 all refused to accept their loved ones' bodies for burial.
PARIS (Reuters) - French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, one of President Emmanuel Macron's closest allies, offered to step down on Monday but Macron refused to accept his resignation, Macron's office said.
Argentina's recently elected president, Mauricio Macri, paved the way by reaching a deal with investors who had refused to accept earlier restructurings of debt on which the country had defaulted.
Cuban pointed out that "it's not like it's a super-close race," claiming that if leaders of foreign democracies refused to accept the will of their voters, Americans would balk.
Yet, he refused to accept how things were and spent the rest of his life helping to enlighten us to the dangers of standing by in the presence of suffering.
The measure failed after House Republicans refused to accept a bipartisan compromise reached in the Senate, and instead inserted clauses that reignited old disputes over government financing for Planned Parenthood.
More aggressively than most, he has refused to accept the major entitlement programs in their current forms, insisting on spending curbs rather than tax increases as the path to solvency.
The companies had been negotiating a contract, but the talks fell through after Clover refused to accept the rates that AtlantiCare demanded, according to a person familiar with the matter.
But the government has refused to accept election monitors from the European Union and U.S.-based Carter Center, which said Kabila's re-election in 2011 was marred by widespread fraud.
Mr. Collomb offered his resignation on Monday, but Mr. Macron refused to accept it, finally giving the green light for the departure only on Wednesday, after an unusual public standoff.
The trick worked and when Mr. López Obrador lost by a tiny margin, he refused to accept the result and accused the political and economic elite of rigging the election.
Trump has refused to accept federal intelligence officials' assertion that the Kremlin is intentionally interfering with the U.S. political system by hacking into organizations such as the Democratic National Committee.
For years, they accused Republicans of resisting Mr. Obama's agenda at every turn, of being spiteful and even hateful as they refused to accept the results of the presidential election.
Under Obama, the EPA rejected or refused to accept dozens of state implementation plans (SIPs) to clean up air, water, and land, imposing instead 50 federal implementation plans on states.
U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to accept the higher death estimate, and continues to joust with many local officials and critics who blasted the federal response to the storm.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who has refused to accept his prime minister's resignation, earlier on Wednesday accused the Saudis of holding Hariri hostage - and called this an act of aggression.
The standoff began in 2007 when taxi driver Hwang Sang-gi refused to accept a settlement after his 23-year-old daughter died of leukemia after working at a Samsung factory.
President Mauricio Macri ended a decade-long legal battle with mostly U.S. creditors who refused to accept payment terms from a record 2002 default, enabling Argentina to issue international bonds again.
But the sanctions against both Russian intelligence agencies could easily be rescinded by Trump, who has so far publicly refused to accept the conclusion that Russia is responsible for the attacks.
Trump and his transition team have repeatedly refused to accept media reports that the intelligence community believes Russia hacked into senior Democratic officials with the intent of aiding the Republican's candidacy.
Mr Trump is allergic to admitting any Russian involvement in his triumph, and in the past has simply refused to accept what his own intelligence machinery tells him about Russian hacking.
Also, the Serb-dominated Serb Republic, an autonomous region that makes up Bosnia along with a federation of Croat and Muslim cantons, has refused to accept any migrants on its territory.
A believer in the Copernican Principle, Churchill refused to accept that Earth resided at the center of the universe, or that humans were somehow unique in the larger scheme of things.
China has suspended dialogue with Taipei since June, a month after pro-independence Tsai Ing-wen took office as Taiwan's president, because Tsai has refused to accept Beijing's "one China" principle.
Richard Burr (R-NC) refused to accept Walker's presence or testimony, and as a result, Google appeared only as an empty chair — and the subject of heated criticism from committee members.
But as had been the case with the government of Mariano Rajoy before him, he refused to accept that an independence referendum for Catalonia could be a subject of the talks.
The Boilermakers and Westinghouse engaged in a mediation process that was not successful, and the union has refused to accept the company's last, best and final contract offer, the company said.
In 1963, when Diefenbaker refused to accept nuclear warheads on Canadian soil, the Kennedy administration started working actively, and successfully, to unseat Diefenbaker and replace him with Liberal leader Lester Pearson.
For the past four years Mr Vaz, a member of PAIGC, has refused to accept the prime minister appointed by PAIGC members in parliament, instead preferring to rule on his own.
But a court in Beijing has so far refused to accept their case and is still considering what to do, said Ding Xikui, one of the lawyers representing the aggrieved editors.
Castro cut off water to the base, refused to accept the then-yearly rent of $2,000 and said no more Cubans would be given permission to work for the Americans there.
"Not since 2628 have #Democrats so dramatically refused to accept the outcome of a presidential election," the official Twitter account for D'Souza's next film, "Death of a Nation," stated on Monday.
The TL;DR was that Lusk's manager allegedly refused to accept any feedback, and implied that the reason Lusk was not progressing in her career was because she wore tank tops.
Many Ivorians fear that another contested vote could lead to violence like the brief civil war that broke out in 2010 when the incumbent, Gbagbo, refused to accept defeat to Ouattara.
Rights groups said the verdict denied justice to victims of the December 2010-April 2011 post-election conflict, when Gbagbo refused to accept defeat by Ouattara and about 3,000 people died.
The big picture: Trump and administration officials have repeatedly refused to accept responsibility for what has quickly become a symbol of his crackdown on illegal immigration, blaming Democrats and Congress instead.
Toskas had previously offered to quit after the July 23 blaze in the small seaside town of Mati east of Athens, but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras refused to accept his resignation.
Mr. Hernandez then became a cause célèbre for people seeking to abolish the cash bail system when he refused to accept a plea bargain that would have spared him jail time.
The ruling was a resounding victory for Mr. Kraft, who had refused to accept a plea deal, maintaining he did nothing illegal when he visited a day spa in Jupiter, Fla.
An Oklahoma mother who is deaf says a Burger King employee refused to accept her order at the drive-thru because the restaurant was "too busy" to accommodate her hearing impairment.
Because nongovernmental groups in those countries refused to accept the conditions of the policy, they were compelled to close clinics and offer fewer contraceptives, said Kelly Castagnaro, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman.
But, the city says, Verizon has failed to make its service available to at least "tens of thousands" of prospective customers and has refused to accept service requests from many others.
Unlike Presidents Clinton and Bush, who conceded defeat when it became clear that their initiatives lacked legislative support, Mr. Trump has refused to accept the failure of his border wall project.
A feverish campaign has been waged in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, since Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., refused to accept the result of the March 31 mayor's race.
The government says there are hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in Assam from neighboring Muslim-majority Bangladesh, but Dhaka has refused to accept anyone declared an illegal immigrant in India.
After a Hungary-led Central European bloc again refused to accept compulsory refugee quotas, the summit agreed that no country would be forced to accept relocation of refugees from the controlled centres.
Some Hindu temples and vegetarian cafes refused to accept the new five pound note featuring World War Two leader Winston Churchill, which the BoE says is more durable and harder to fake.
The PiS government has undermined the courts, refused to accept the refugees required under EU rules, and opened a culture war by claiming Poles have long been fed lies about their history.
Podrick humbly returns back to Tyrion and Bronn after his night of bliss, and reveals that the sex workers had refused to accept the gold because he was that good in bed.
China did not participate in and has refused to accept the July 12 ruling by The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, in which U.S. ally Manila won an emphatic legal victory.
Arguing that the mass influx of Muslim refugees threatens European civilization, Orban's Fidesz government has refused to accept EU-mandated refugee quotas, and made it illegal to render assistance to asylum seekers.
A month earlier the president visited Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, where he coyly refused to accept the endorsement of the local chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Monday's deal is seen providing Elliot and Aurelius, the principal drivers behind the sovereign's 12-year old battle with holdouts, better terms than the agreement they refused to accept in early February.
Mexican Perez left no doubt about his lingering annoyance when he spoke to reporters before Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix, pinning the blame on the 20-year-old - who refused to accept it.
President Donald Trump has also refused to accept conclusions of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections using cyber warfare methods to help the New York businessman win.
The debate pitted us against each other, exaggerating the 'us' and 'them' dynamic of a year in which some struggled—or just plain refusedto accept females as members of the school.
Federal Election Commission, when the court refused to accept the Obama administration's argument that it could ban books, mailers, advertisements or anything else that contained a political message during an election campaign.
Prime Minister Hun Sen suspended the POW/MIA program when Washington stopped issuing some visas after Cambodia refused to accept citizens deported from the United States following their convictions for crimes there.
Which is how the biggest football game of 2017 wound up being decided by a method nearly as ridiculous as the one Durbin refused to accept in Kansas all those years ago.
Ivory Coast is emerging from a decade-long political crisis capped by a 2011 civil war that erupted when former President Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept his election defeat to Alassane Ouattara.
The show's producers say they have stopped about 2,500 online sales and have refused to accept tickets from about 150 patrons at the door — a tiny fraction of tickets sold to date.
President Hollande called the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, to demand that the U.K. accept them all; May refused to accept any of them without conducting preliminary background checks on French soil.
In 2008, Obama called for Americans to change the way that their politics worked, and he refused to accept the idea that the nation was sliced and diced into red and blue.
As Josef Joffe has written, the Palestinian leadership has consistently, for generations, refused to accept anything other than a state built on the ruins of Israel, which is hardly a suicidal player.
While the next day, President Hassan Rouhani refused to accept the resignation, there is no sense that the pro-nuclear forces that likely impelled Zarif to take that action have been defused.
Or that Mr. Trump, asked about Mr. Owens's criticism on "Fox & Friends," refused to accept responsibility, as most commanders in chief would do, and instead blamed the military commanders for the operation.
Jammeh lost a December election to opposition leader Adama Barrow and refused to accept the result, but flew into exile under diplomatic pressure and after West African Ecowas troops crossed into Gambia.
Mr. Kraft and more than a dozen of the other men have refused to accept a plea deal from prosecutors, contending that the video and other pieces of evidence were improperly obtained.
The Czech Republic - along with Hungary, Slovakia and Poland which together form the Visegrad Group - has taken a hard line on the issue and refused to accept more than tiny numbers of migrants.
The repeal fight has laid clear a truth that Republicans had refused to accept in seven years of promising to repeal Obamacare: The law is, in many ways, fundamentally conservative and market-reliant.
A coroner signed a death certificate for Jahi in January 2014, but Winkfield refused to accept that conclusion and insisted that her daughter showed signs of life through toe wriggling and finger movements.
Faced with the many painful trade-offs that Brexit entails, Mrs May refused to accept that compromise was necessary until too late—after others' positions had hardened and compromise was defined as losing.
By the turn of the 19th century, even as the national government refused to accept Native claims to land and resources, the depiction of America as an "Indian princess" recurred in visual mythology.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Sebastian Vettel lapped fastest for Ferrari on the penultimate day of Formula One's pre-season testing on Thursday but refused to accept the mantle of favorite from Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton.
Despite increasing evidence of intelligence and law enforcement failures to prevent this week's suicide bombings by Islamic militants, Belgium's prime minister refused to accept the resignations of his justice and interior ministers Thursday.
Only days ago, Mattarella refused to accept an initial bid from Italy's populist parties over concerns about an economy minister who had helped write a guide for withdrawing Italy from the euro zone.
In ongoing negotiations over immigration reform, the Trump administration is seeking stronger measures against immigrants who have been ordered deported but whose home countries refused to accept them, a senior administration official said.
Paul S. Reichler, the Washington lawyer retained by the Philippines as chief counsel in the case, said that if China refused to accept the tribunal's ruling, other countries would line up against it.
After receiving a call from Mr. Mubarez about the boycott, one bodega owner, Saleh Musa, refused to accept the stacks of New York Posts that were delivered to his shops the next day.
When global engineering firms told the Mexican government that building a new refinery according to the country's budget and timeline would be impossible, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador refused to accept their verdict.
With the new hearing date approaching, Dr. Simon's lawyer refused to accept service of the subpoena on her behalf, so the marshals began looking for Dr. Simon, said the committee spokesman, Frederick Hill.
When reporters asked him if he accepted the support of white supremacists who were celebrating his victory, Trump refused to accept the connection between white supremacists and his win, then used passive language.
As Raymond Barrett noted, Qatar has refused to accept the status quo and conventional wisdom of other Gulf monarchies, especially concerning the role of Iran and Islamist political parties in the region's future.
Some nervous business accountholders and savers have headed for the exit since the accounting blunder, citing concerns about the bank's stability after the board refused to accept the resignation of Chief Executive Craig Donaldson.
Poland initially supported the quota system, but the anti-immigrant, right-wing populist government that came to power a month after the deal was struck has since refused to accept refugees under the scheme.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to accept the new number, and continues to joust with many local officials and other critics who complain that the federal response to the storm was inadequate.
Asked in a memorable interview on CNN why his boss was trailing in the polls, Mr Cohen assumed a blank, show-me-the-evidence expression, and refused to accept the premise of the question.
A court employee refused to accept the paperwork at first, but Mr. Shi pointed to new regulations passed in May that made it tougher for courts to reject cases without giving a strong reason.
This would have put Hamas in a commanding position for both the West Bank and Gaza, but there was a problem: Hamas refused to accept previous deals that the PA had made with Israel.
" Just hours before, however, Reckless Trump refused to accept the national security community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, insisting instead that "I think it was probably other people and/or countries.
The vote was reportedly an unexpected blow to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been accused of pressuring courts and media and has refused to accept asylum seekers since assuming power in 2010.
And he voiced support for US intelligence agencies -- a day after he had refused to accept their findings on Russia's election interference over Putin's denials -- and vowed to take action to prevent further attacks.
China did not participate in and has refused to accept the July 12 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, based in The Hague, in which U.S. ally Manila won an emphatic legal victory.
Joko's comments came after a bitter electoral race against his longtime rival, former general Prabowo Subianto, who refused to accept the election result, alleging widespread ballot-rigging that sparked deadly clashes in the capital.
A vast swath of America has long refused to accept Trump as a legitimate president because of the unsettled issue of Russian interference, and his continued lambasting of Clinton reeks of protesting too much.
Speaking to Elle, Beyoncé confirmed that she was trying to make a statement, but refused to accept the label of being "anti-police": Anyone who perceives my message as anti-police is completely mistaken.
A doctor suggested that the deafness would limit her educational and professional achievement, but her parents refused to accept that — they set about learning sign language, sent her to Catholic school with hearing children.
To date, Trump has refused to accept the consensus view of all 17 federal intelligence agencies that Russia sought to undermine last month's presidential election, despite the administration making that assessment on Oct. 7.
Trump has refused to accept the intelligence community's conclusions, however, instead pointing the finger at Ukraine, the Obama administration, and the private cybersecurity firm that confirmed the Russians had hacked the Democratic National Committee.
On the plane, Francis said he had twice refused to accept the resignation of Bishop Barros, and in January 2015 he moved the bishop from leading Chile's military ordinariate to the diocese of Osorno.
James refused to accept anything less than the max when he went back to Cleveland in 2014, but that might've been more about his frosty relationship with Cavs owner Dan Gilbert than an unbreakable commandment.
The Boilermakers and Westinghouse engaged in a mediation process that was unfortunately not successful, and the union has refused to accept the company's last, best and final contract offer, the company said in a statement.
On Friday, the proceeds of last week's international bond sale began flowing to the U.S. hedge funds who had refused to accept earlier settlements from Argentina stemming from its $290 billion debt default in 28.
According to the Egypt Independent, at the time of his conviction, the court refused to accept the child's birth certificate as proof of his age and arrested his father pending an investigation into the matter.
Ronald Noble, the American who served as Interpol's secretary general from 2000 to 2014, has suggested the organization should have refused to accept Meng Hongwei's "potentially involuntary" resignation, presumably continuing to honor him in absentia.
FIFA Dismisses Plot Allegation An alleged plot by FIFA's president, Gianni Infantino, to oust the official who oversaw the salary offer he refused to accept has been called "ludicrous" by FIFA, world soccer's governing body.
Mucciolo, who is facing eviction after her apartment's management company refused to accept her rent payment in August, began speaking out about what she believes are large corporations stealing and profiting off her work. Hotels.
As courts evaluated the first, the second and eventually the third ban, judges consistently refused to accept that they simply had no role to play in assessing the lawfulness of what the President had done.
The awards to Yasir Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Le Duc Tho (who refused to accept it), Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama, among others, all caused a stir in their day.
If there was one trait that characterized England's comeback win against world champion Germany in Berlin on Saturday, it was the relentless spirit as the English refused to accept defeat after going down two goals.
" Kelly, who has been on the receiving end of more than a couple of Trump's comments herself, refused to accept Conway's claim that the billionaire has made just a "couple of comments over 25 years.
He launched his Senate campaign in late March 2017 and has refused to accept any corporate money or donations from political action committees -- a pledge that stretches back to his first run for the House.
Most recently, Italy, which now includes a right-wing, anti-immigrant party as part of its governing coalition, refused to accept a boat carrying more than 600 migrants; it was eventually taken in by Spain.
Beijing has cut off official communication with Taipei because Tsai has refused to accept China's view that the island is a part of China, and has put pressure on the trade-reliant island diplomatically and economically.
The extent of the impact of the measures became evident as petrol stations and hospitals also refused to accept larger denomination bank notes, even though the government had given them a waiver to continue accepting them.
In Boca Raton, however, city attorneys Thomas Collery and Joni Hamilton refused to accept the terms and managed to get them amended, noting, for example, that Ring's conditions would run afoul of Florida's public records laws.
Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo was brought before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes allegedly committed during post-electoral violence in 2010 and 2011, when he refused to accept defeat by rival Alassane Ouattara.
China has also refused to accept the jurisdiction of a tribunal in The Hague which is adjudicating a case on its claims brought by the Philippines under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
To their credit Arsenal refused to accept defeat and when Alonso failed to get proper distance on a clearing header the ball feel for Bellerin to send a half-volley curling away from the helpless Courtois.
Alibaba held its record $25 billion public float in New York in 2014 after Hong Kong refused to accept its governance structure, where a self-selecting group of senior managers control the majority of board appointments.
Argentina returned to the international debt markets for the first time in more than a decade in April after Macri's government settled a legal dispute with creditors who had refused to accept an earlier debt restructuring.
Similarly, despite a drought-induced food shortage, Zambia in 85033 refused to accept donations of American corn for fear of eventually losing their export market to the EU if the GMO corn was used for seed.
Mr. Roof, through his defense lawyers, has offered to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, but prosecutors have refused to accept that deal, which would avert a trial on the 33-count federal indictment.
President Sergio Mattarella has so far refused to accept 81-year-old economist Paolo Savona for the pivotal post, stymieing efforts to end a political deadlock that has dragged on since an inconclusive election in March.
They've seen what happened when franchises like the Flames and Maple Leafs refused to accept reality and bite the bullet on tough decisions, and they have no interest in watching their team go down that path.
Deportations to Honduras and Guatemala Trump claimed that, under previous administrations, Honduras and Guatemala refused to accept criminals the US wanted to deport back, even refusing to let the US land its planes on their soil.
When reporters asked him if he accepted the support of white supremacists who were celebrating his victory, Trump refused to accept the connection between white supremacists and his win, then used passive language to disavow them.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to accept any of the tax revenues, which totaled 700 million shekels ($193 million) in January and which account for about half of the PA's budget, since the Israeli decision.
Or Trump's decision in 1989 to take out a newspaper ad pushing the death penalty after five African American teenagers were accused of rape in Central Park; they were later exonerated, but Trump refused to accept it.
As the dangerous disaster continued, Kelly and her co-defendant Baroni, according to prosecutors, reveled in the distress caused by the snarled traffic and refused to accept or return the phone calls of the increasingly desperate mayor.
She handed out 50 knives at the airport, although she had to approach many more people, as about half the travelers she attempted to gift knives to either refused to accept them or even engage with her.
Idlib is home to more than 3 million people, nearly half of them displaced from other parts of Syria, including armed groups who refused to accept the restoration of government authority following military offensives and capitulation deals.
Greece, a member of both NATO and the EU, has refused to accept the Balkan country's name, saying it implies territorial claims on the Greek province of Macedonia and amounts to an appropriation of its ancient civilization.
Zarif, who retracted his resignation after Rouhani refused to accept it, said on Monday he had resigned in order to preserve the dignity and credibility of the Foreign Ministry, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
It seemed to be a cruel vindication of the Syrian government's core message, one that he refused to accept but that much of the world had embraced: the only alternative to Bashar al-Assad was Al Qaeda.
Prosecutors didn't get nearly what they wanted ...  they recommended 21 months, calling her one of the "most culpable parents" charged in the case who refused to accept responsibility for her actions until months after she was busted.
The court's action came after it struck down the state's existing districting plan and Tom Wolf, the state's Democratic governor, refused to accept an alternative redistricting plan put forward by Pennsylvania Republicans, who control the state's legislature.
Last month, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered his government to hire a private shipping company to send 69 containers of garbage back to Canada and leave them within its territorial waters if it refused to accept them.
All of my high school classmates did it, even the ones who couldn't tell the difference between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr. As someone who has plenty of unresolved adolescent psychodrama, I refused to accept defeat.
This came as quite the shock to her parents, who not only disapproved of the idea, but refused to accept it even two years later, when Neha had already moved to Los Angeles to study acting at CalArts.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the board had wanted to move ahead with the succession plan to let Levin take over this year but that Och soured on Levin and refused to accept the plan.
Amazon's decision to withdraw plans to locate a second headquarters in New York City was welcome news for many leaders like me who refused to accept a back room deal that put the needs of corporations over people.
Then 24, he was told he would never walk again, but he refused to accept that and following his rehabilitation has completed triathlons, learned to ski and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in the inaugural Row2Recovery team.
Iran, however, has steadfastly refused to accept limits, and it has been aggressively returning oil to the market in an effort to grab back the market share it lost while it was under sanctions for its nuclear program.
Minister of state for interior affairs Talal Chaudhry said the government had refused to accept the demand to sack the minister, and instead had ordered police to block any more Labaik supporters or leaders from joining the protest.
Earlier in 2017, Robinson stormed the offices of WalesOnline to find and question a writer who had called him "far right"—a classification he refused to accept, despite very publicly promoting far-right ideas for nearly a decade.
JAKARTA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Indonesia's environment ministry said on Thursday it would report countries to the Basel Convention, an international treaty on waste reduction, if they refused to accept waste shipments sent back to them by its authorities.
The couple was interviewed and cleared before the plane departed, but the captain "refused to accept" the passengers back on board because the flight attendants were "uncomfortable" having the couple travel on the flight, according to the order.
In the nineteen-twenties, when Judah Magnes, the chancellor of the newly founded Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, tried to hire Buber as a professor, the faculty repeatedly refused to accept him, considering him not quite a true scholar.
"The offloaded guests - part of a larger group, refused to accept the airline's offer of compensation / re-accommodation on alternative flights, and together with other members of the group, proceeded to hold the flight," Jet Airways told Mashable India.
Alibaba held its record $25 billion public float in New York in 2014 after Hong Kong, its favoured venue, refused to accept its governance structure where a self-selecting group of senior managers control the majority of board appointments.
Alibaba held its record $25 billion public float in New York in 2014 after Hong Kong, its favored venue, refused to accept its governance structure, where a self-selecting group of senior managers control the majority of board appointments.
Alibaba held its record $25 billion public float in New York in 2014 after Hong Kong, its favored venue, refused to accept its governance structure where a self-selecting group of senior managers control the majority of board appointments.
U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani refused to accept Navient's argument that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's lawsuit must be thrown out because the regulator itself was unconstitutional, and had not enacted rules declaring specific practices unfair, deceptive or abusive.
While frontline states on the Mediterranean bore the immediate impact of the jump in immigration, and wealthy countries such as Germany and Sweden also took in large numbers, post-communist governments in the east refused to accept their share.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Columns of Senegalese troops moved to the Gambian border on Wednesday, threatening military action against President Yahya Jammeh, who has refused to accept a December election defeat, military sources and residents of towns near the border said.
In recent days, Trump adopted big brush themes, maintained his superficial acquaintance with policy, used of social media as a messaging tool, and refused to accept any of the conventions about how politics has been conducted for eons -- i.e.
However, groups that refuse to distinguish between abortion and family planning ("reproductive rights are indivisible," as they say), such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), refused to accept the money.
But Sontag refused to accept that she was headed toward the end, an absolute denial that caused intense feelings of conflict for those who cared for her, a disparate group that included family members, friends, lovers and paid assistants.
He faces four counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts during post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast between December 2010 and April 2011, when Gbagbo refused to accept defeat by rival Alassane Ouattara.
In an interview with Fox & Friends Tuesday, President Donald Trump refused to accept responsibility for the risky special operations raid in Yemen earlier this month that resulted in the death of Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer William "Ryan" Owens.
Trump offered a new level of sobriety in his discussion of the models, though he remained insistent his administration had handled the outbreak adequately and refused to accept responsibility for early testing failures, which he blamed on previous administrations.
"It is especially inappropriate and insulting to our sovereignty to needlessly submit to social policies which the United States Congress has so far explicitly refused to accept," the members wrote in a letter sent to Mr. Trump on Nov.
Mr. Obama spoke as President-elect Donald J. Trump on Thursday again refused to accept Moscow's culpability, asking on Twitter why the administration had waited "so long to act" if Russia "or some other entity" had carried out cyberattacks.
The court refused to accept those hundreds of employees as "valid comparators," legal terminology for pointing to coworkers treated better than herself, finding the spreadsheet did not provide "sufficient information" even though it listed dates of employees' work reassignments.
Alibaba held its record $25 billion public float in New York in 33 after Hong Kong, its favoured venue, refused to accept its governance structure where a self-selecting group of senior managers control the majority of board appointments.
President Sergio Mattarella has so far refused to accept 81-year-old economist Paolo Savona for the pivotal post of economy minister, stymieing efforts to end a political deadlock that has dragged on since an inconclusive election in March.
During the hearing on Thursday, Republicans bristled at Dr. Hill's accusation, and after several tangled rounds of questioning, they used their time to push back on her suggestion that they refused to accept Russia's role in the 2016 election.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gambia's army chief pledged his loyalty on Wednesday to President Yahya Jammeh, who has refused to accept defeat in last month's election and faces the possibility of regional military intervention to enforce the result of the vote.
After his deportation in February, a court ordered Miguna be granted re-entry but on Monday Nairobi immigration officers refused to accept his Kenyan passport and asked him to surrender his Canadian travel document, his lawyer Nelson Havi said.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, tried Thursday to blame Democrats for the family-separation policy that the Trump administration started — because Democrats have refused to accept the broader changes in immigration policy demanded by the president.
Read: How Kim Jong Un could hide North Korea's nukes from Trump We know how it went last time: The Bush administration took a hard line in demanding intrusive inspections and other measures that North Korea ultimately refused to accept.
On Friday, Seoul said North Korea had refused to accept a list of South Korean journalists who planned to observe the closure of the North's nuclear weapons test site at at Punggye-ri next week, backtracking on an earlier invitation.
According to Alan Bullock's record of that period, the companies took full advantage of this, but refused to accept any responsibility for the fact that during most of the year a large number of the men forming the pool were underemployed.
Trump was greeted as a hero when he visited Poland last year, a trip that was seen as an endorsement for the nationalist ruling party that has flouted EU rules and refused to accept the refugees required by international agreements.
Gambia's current President Adama Barrow was sworn in a year ago as a West African regional intervention force closed in on the capital Banjul forcing Jammeh, who had refused to accept his defeat in elections, to flee to Equatorial Guinea.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who has refused to accept Saad Hariri's resignation as prime minister unless Hariri returns from Saudi Arabia, welcomed comments from Hariri that he plans to come home soon, palace sources and visitors said on Monday.
"My mother had been shocked and appalled by the impact that landmines were having on incredibly vulnerable people ... she refused to accept that these destructive weapons should be left where they were," said Harry at an event in Kensington Palace.
The woman who wrote Melania Trump's convention speech, Meredith McIver, took responsibility for copying portions of that speech and offered to resign as an in-house writer for Donald Trump last week, though the GOP nominee refused to accept it.
At one point in the fight he was up against the ropes and just openly mocked McCorry by leaning against them and invited his man onto him, who refused to accept the invitation of what could have been a free punch.
Aung San Suu Kyi was lauded on the global stage, awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, and praised for her refusal to incite violence while under house arrest for 15 years after winning a presidential election the ruling military refused to accept.
Australia first began sending refugees to Nauru about 15 years ago, after the then prime minister, John Howard of the conservative Liberal Party, refused to accept a group of mostly Afghan asylum seekers who had been rescued from a sinking boat.
Taking an example from her own lineage, Teri recounts how her Spanish father's family refused to accept his marriage to her Mexican mother, and how her mother eventually internalized that prejudice by asking Teri to only claim her European ancestry.
Since then, the government has refused to accept refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, resisted instituting equal rights for same-sex couples, and passed a law forbidding discussion of Polish collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War.
Rashad James, of Maryland Legal Aid, told reporters at a press conference that the deputy refused to accept his driver's license as identification, and led him to an interview room until James was able to prove he was the attorney.
"They refused to accept the proprietary materials being sold by 3-D printer companies," said Joshua G. Stein, a professor at Woodbury University in Burbank and co-director of Data Clay, an online database dedicated to ceramics and emerging technologies.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate who once spent nearly 15 years under house arrest after winning a presidential election the ruling military junta refused to accept, has faced widespread criticism and condemnation for her failure to intervene in the Rakhine crisis.
Over the course of 21 months, President Trump has loudly and repeatedly refused to accept a number of seemingly agreed-upon facts, while insisting on the veracity of a variety of demonstrably false claims that happen to suit his political needs.
The 65-year-old was pulled over for a broken taillight, refused to accept an $80 ticket and instead yelled at the officer, drove away from the scene and later struggled with him, according to police bodycam footage and court documents.
Russia's track and field athletes might be welcomed back at all international events; the I.A.A.F., track and field's world governing body, had refused to accept Russian athletes while the country's antidoping agency was not considered in compliance with WADA standards.
Video footage from November appears to reveal that the security forces violently targeted protesters who did not pose any imminent threat to life, and authorities have refused to accept responsibility or even publicly account for the total number of people killed.
The crisis of 2015 exposed deep divisions within the EU, with frontline countries like Italy and Greece frustrated with eastern European countries that have refused to accept refugees, and others, including Sweden and Germany, taking on a disproportionately large share.
American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia made a concerted effort — through hacking, propaganda and other means — to influence the November election in favor of Mr. Trump, a conclusion Mr. Trump initially refused to accept until he received a detailed briefing.
At the same time, Taliban insurgents rule more of the country than at any time since they were ousted from power nearly two decades ago, and have refused to accept the legitimacy of what they call a puppet U.S.-backed government.
Many critics of the war — which would not be over for two more years — ridiculed the choice of Mr. Kissinger, and his Vietnamese counterpart refused to accept the award on grounds that the United States had violated the cease-fire.
We refused to accept the false choice between supporting public-school teachers and giving parents options for their kids when they had none, and the city worked with our local teacher's union to give our public school teachers a raise too.
During talks, Bradesco refused to accept demands that Brazilian credit card transactions continue to be carried out on Elavon data systems in the United States, a condition that would saddle Elavon's Brazilian unit with fees in dollars, the second source said.
She also told BBC that she has seen patients who were so ashamed of their mental health that they refused to accept diagnoses or treatment, and even refused to attend mental health community services in fear of being recognized while seeking help.
Though he conceded for the first time that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin's intelligence operatives were involved in hacking Democratic computers, he still refused to accept the widely-held view that Putin interceded to try to help him win the presidency.
Court documents show Mosten, which had a balance of just under C$17,000 in the side account in December, 2012, tried to deposit further funds in the spring of 2016 but Manulife refused to accept further deposits, prompting it to take legal action.
And those hard-core "Star Wars" nerds among us who can stomach Episodes I, II, and III still enjoy them even though Padmé Amidala, or Natalie Portman, recently refused to accept an award in Israel to protest the policies of the current government.
After chaining himself to an unpopular president, a sort of Western "Comical Ali" (Saddam Hussein's minister of information who refused to accept his boss's defeat) defending the untruths that emanated from above him, it is difficult to build a post-briefing-room career.
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Mecca refused to accept any decision to change legal and demographic status of Syria's Golan Heights, especially the U.S. decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory, the summit's final statement said.
Six of the nine women and girls who reported the abuse to state authorities said they were mistreated by those authorities which demanded they track down their own abusers, refused to accept complaints, or did not follow up their cases, HRW noted.
But it left him at odds with the president, who has ordered his team not to cooperate with the House, an order Mr. Mulvaney has essentially refused to accept as other administration officials have until he receives separate guidance from a judge.
Read more: I ate 8 chicken sandwiches from fast-food chains, and the best was also the cheapestHowever, Chick-fil-A, the self-proclaimed inventor of the chicken sandwich, refused to accept the elevation of the new chicken sandwich without taking a stand.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump refused to accept any responsibility for the slow rate of coronavirus testing in the United States, saying on Friday that he was "given a set of circumstances" that wasn't meant for the high numbers of potential COVID-21 infections.
Despite its talk of being a leader in fighting global warming, China, the world's biggest polluter, has refused to accept international monitoring of its emissions, and conflicting data about the country's energy use has raised questions about the accuracy of its reporting.
The four eastern EU states have persistently refused to accept asylum-seekers to ease the burden on Italy and Greece, the other sea gateway to Europe, even at the height of arrivals in 2015 when more than a million people reached the bloc.
Other former aides to Mr. Trump said on Sunday that he refused to accept reassurances about Ukraine no matter how many times it was explained to him, instead subscribing to an unsubstantiated narrative that has now brought him to the brink of impeachment.
In interviews since Attorney General William Barr issued his four-page letter on Sunday, Democrats have refused to accept that determination, saying there's ample evidence of Trump campaign and Russia contacts that may not have risen to the level of criminal conduct.
Gbagbo is accused of four counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts allegedly committed during post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast between 16 December 2010 and 12 April 2011 when Gbagbo refused to accept defeat by rival Alassane Ouattara.
BANJUL (Reuters) - The political party of Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election last month but has refused to accept his defeat, filed a request on Thursday with the Supreme Court for an injunction aimed at blocking the swearing in of his rival.
Stephen W. Bosworth, a former American ambassador who pulled off a diplomatic coup in 21998 by persuading the Philippine dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos to allow free elections, and then personally delivered Washington's pink slip to him when he refused to accept defeat, died on Jan.
Trump escalated another fight that touched on threats to American elections: He again refused to accept U.S. intelligence agencies' assessment that the Russian government is attempting to influence the presidential race, leading Clinton to label her opponent "a puppet" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Re/code executive editor Kara Swisher pointed out in her on-stage interview that in the aftermath of the election, Facebook had been widely criticized for allowing fake news to spread on its site, and that CEO Mark Zuckerberg had refused to accept responsibility.
Ryanair refused to accept the registration papers of a newly formed Polish union and threatened workers with redundancy if they did not accept self-employment contracts with its Polish subsidiary, Ryanair Sun, by September 30, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) said in a statement.
The U.S. tariffs of 25 percent on imports of steel and 10 percent on aluminum were imposed early on Friday on Canada, Mexico and the European Union after they refused to accept steel and aluminum quotas in negotiations with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
BANJUL/DAKAR (Reuters) - Gambia's longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh, who refused to accept his election defeat last month, has agreed to go into exile, a senior adviser to new President Adama Barrow said on Friday, but talks to finalise the deal were holding up his exit.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations likely refused to accept legal responsibility for a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed thousands in the past six years because it was a position pressed by the United States, an independent U.N. investigator said on Tuesday.
In 1947, when the United Nations voted to approve the establishment of a Jewish state, Palestinian Arabs and existing Arab countries refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and refused to accept the territory allocated for the Palestinian Arabs' own independent nation.
Both Judge Furman and Judge Hazel refused to accept the lawyers' withdrawal; Judge Furman, citing a court rule that permits a lawyer to stop representing a client only for "satisfactory reasons," noted that the government had provided no explanation, let alone a satisfactory one.
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian anticorruption protesters were out in record numbers on Sunday evening, so distrusting of their government that they refused to accept its contrite promise the night before to capitulate to their demands and rescind a decree that had decriminalized some corruption offenses.
The new rules would seem to benefit former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has refused to accept any donations — and who recently received 10 percent support in a national Fox News poll on the strength of a massive nationwide television ad buy.
But the elder Bundy refused to accept a conditional release from jail while several others charged in the case, including two other sons - Mel and David Bundy - remain incarcerated pending a separate trial that has been postponed until 2018, his lawyer, Bret Whipple, told Reuters.
Declaring its independence in 1991, Macedonia avoided the wars that battered some other ex-Yugoslav republics, but Greece refused to accept the country's name, saying it implied territorial claims on the Greek province of Macedonia and amounted to an appropriation of its ancient civilization.
"These girls refused to accept the excuse that 'boys will be boys,' instead they banded together to educate their peers and community about the damage caused by objectifying women based on a 'point system' — not unlike what The Fug Girls do on a bigger platform," Olivia wrote.
The fact that an investigation at the FCC would have been carried out by an official who had earlier refused to accept the formal findings of the FCC's own security professionals, and then anonymously leaked claims contradicting them, only further casts suspicion on the FCC's story.
Cambridge Analytica had refused to accept this and told the ICO that Carroll was no more entitled to make a so-called "subject access request" under the UK Data Protection Act "than a member of the Taliban sitting in a cave in the remotest corner of Afghanistan".
The Department of Homeland Security is suspending the issuance of visas to four nations that have "refused to accept or unreasonably delayed the return of its nationals," officials from DHS and the State Department confirmed to Axios, although neither official would reveal the details of the suspension.
He said the sale, expected to begin on Monday, resulted from a sea change in Argentina's will to end a long-festering legal battle with mostly U.S. creditors who refused to accept the payment terms after it defaulted on nearly $100 billion in debt in 2002.
He wrote further that many of the affected individuals had been ordered removed to Iraq years ago because of crimes they had committed in the US. "All detainees served their sentences and were released under orders of supervision, because Iraq refused to accept repatriation," the judge wrote.
You shouldn't expect him to support your tariff decisions, but on the heels of the "G6" statement condemning US tariffs, the Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said that direct discussions between you and Abe may help resolve the issue (Japan has refused to accept import quotas).
Speaking to reporters shortly after OPEC recommended taking 1.5 million bpd off the market for the remainder of the year, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh conceded that the group had "no plan B" if Russia or any other non-OPEC members refused to accept the deal.
Here&aposs a brief, non-exhaustive list of times that Trump either attacked or expressed distrust in the US intelligence community (IC):During the 2016 election, he refused to accept that Russia hacked into the Democratic National Committee, even though the IC had determined as much.
The delivery firm, which has been working for Amazon since 2015, refused to accept the terms of the 2.0 contract because it "would have taken a 5 percent haircut" on what it earned, according to an email written by Eric Swanson, director of Amazon's last mile program.
Interest rates for Argentine bonds fell to between 6.5 percent and 8 percent, down from about 15 percent after the dispute with so-called "holdout" creditors, who refused to accept the terms of an earlier debt restructuring after the country's 2002 default, came to an end.
Italy's new government, which took office on June 1, has helped thrust immigration back on to the European agenda by closing its ports to humanitarian ships that rescue migrants off the coast of Libya, and it has so far refused to accept migrants sent back from the German border.
During the Taliban&aposs five-year rule that ended with the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, leader Mullah Mohammed Omar said regardless of whatever concessions they agreed to, including allowing girls to attend school, it would not gain them international recognition as long as the U.S. refused to accept them.
Efforts toward an agreement on the border's status hit a standstill Monday after Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which is pro-Brexit and a crucial political support to May's government, refused to accept a deal that May brokered with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels, Belgium.
While Mr Trump has not echoed the congressional criticism, he has appointed officials — including Fiona Hill at the National Security Council — who have maintained a tough line on Russia, particularly after Moscow refused to accept that the Syrian regime was responsible for a chemical attack on its own citizens.
But Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democrat of New Mexico and the chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said she refused to accept that lawmakers would choose to go home for the holidays while young undocumented immigrants were holding hunger strikes and being arrested at protests to keep families together.
The president declared the national emergency in February, after Democrats and Republicans in Congress rejected his efforts to secure $5 billion for the border wall, including during a 35-day government shutdown in which he repeatedly refused to accept any funding measure that failed to fund the edifice.
But with all the attention that has been paid to the risks Trump poses as a leader and the ugly statements that have come out of his campaign, we have not looked closely enough at how and why a candidate who refused to accept the party's doctrine has won the nomination.
"Hariri's remarks on Sunday gave small hope of the possibility of his return to Lebanon...Iran does not interfere in Lebanon's affairs," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by state TV. Lebanese President Michel Aoun refused to accept Hariri's resignation unless he tendered it in person in Lebanon.
" And as he's been pressed in recent weeks over the hacking of Democratic officials' emails, which US officials have said Russian intelligence services are responsible, Trump has refused to accept that conclusion, instead saying he was not convinced Russia was responsible and suggesting it could even be "a 400-pound man.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has in the past refused to accept samples not collected by its own teams and has accepted others but given them less credibility as evidence, according to Syrians who have worked for years to collect samples from what were suspected to be attacks.
Poland's right-wing, eurosceptic government has refused to accept any of the 6,200 migrants allocated to it under the European Union's quota scheme that is designed to share the burden of taking in the large numbers of migrants and refugees who have come to Europe over the past two years.
A federal judge ordered his deportation a year later, but Germany, Poland, and Ukraine refused to accept him, leaving his case in limbo, while protesters and lawmakers regularly pushed for his deportation to prevent the former Nazi guard living out his twilight years in freedom in the country of his choice.
In her section on the early to mid-nineteenth century, Lepore draws out the contradictions of a nation that was rapidly becoming more democratic and consumer-friendly—and then split in two when the South refused to accept the popular election of a president who swore to halt the expansion of slavery.
The real extinction rebellion may have to look a lot more like the one going on in France, where the "Yellow Vests" have refused to accept the costs of climate adaptation being thrust onto the backs of a working class that has been hit again and again since 2008's economic collapse.
He has proposed killing the family members of terrorists; waterboarding suspects because "they deserve it anyway"; refused to accept the results of a free and fair election; toyed with deploying nuclear weapons in regional conflicts; suggested banning all Muslims from the country; and said a federal judge's Mexican heritage disqualifies him from office.
I had just been elected Stanford student body president on a "radical" platform calling for an end to the university's cooperation with the war, and I had already refused to accept a student deferment that would have allowed me to avoid the draft and probably sent a poor person in my stead.
And it happened again in 2016 when the Democrats refused to accept legitimate election of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE.
In the past few weeks, as he has tried to navigate his way out of a political standoff with Democrats, Mr. Trump has ramped up his anti-immigration messaging, stormed out of meetings with Democratic leaders and refused to accept any compromise that does not ultimately include funding for a border wall.
It's why people refused to accept that Beyoncé's Lemonade was a narrative for Black women and resorted to "reverse racism" claims; it's why the backlash against the South Korean boy band BTS winning a Grammy earlier this year had such racist overtones; it's why emerging artists of color continue to be marginalized every day.
While in office, Trump has repeatedly disagreed or refused to accept U.S. intelligence assessments on a range of key national security topics, including Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Iran's compliance with the nuclear deal and the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
They claimed that Duca said the student "won't have a lot to say" during class presentations, that she refused to accept assignments from this student while accepting them from others, that she called her work "basic" and "vague," and that during one class Duca made the student cry during a one-on-one meeting.
But the Hollywood Foreign Press refused to accept two other studio submissions: Focus Features wanted to run Alicia Vikander (who plays the wife of the title transgender character in "The Danish Girl") for best supporting actress; that's the same category the Weinstein Company sought for Rooney Mara (who plays Therese, one of the lesbian lovers in "Carol").
Shortly after Taiwan President and DPP leader Tsai Ing-wen took office in May, China cut off official communication with Taipei because she has refused to accept China's view that the self-ruled island is a part of China, and ties between the two sides since she won the presidential election in January have been fraying.
Merkel's hard-line Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the head of the CSU, has demanded that Germany start turning back asylum seekers at the border who have already been registered in other European Union countries – a move Merkel has refused to accept, as she instead seeks to reach a common agreement with other E.U. leaders to resolve the issue.
Whereas Nunes parroted Trump talking points and ultimately published a "final report" that Democrats refused to accept, exonerating the administration while ignoring and never examining large swaths of the swirling questions about Russia's role in the attacks, Burr and Warner forged ahead with an in-depth examinations of the information influence operations by the Internet Research Agency and GRU.
America has led the way in responding to anti-Semitism in the 21st century: Pressuring the OSCE to organize conferences on anti-Semitism in Europe; working with the international community to promote Holocaust education; and speaking out against violence toward Jews and refused to accept rationalizations that it was all about the Middle East conflict and not Jew-hatred.
Alexa Bolnick, Indian Hills High School, Franklin Lakes, N.J.: "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller and "A Lack of Respect for the Working Class in America Today" Last year, reading the play "Death of a Salesman," I couldn't understand why salesman Willy Loman refused to accept his son's desire to perform manual labor for a living.

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