The last remaining claimant in Avignon, Benedict XIII, refused to resign and was excommunicated.

However, given that unlike Russia, America refused to give extensive military aid to the country, the government of Daoud Khan developed warmer ties with the USSR while officially remaining non-aligned.

He voluntarily withdrew completely from musical life in Germany during the Nazi era, while remaining in Germany, and refused to allow his works to be played there.

The remaining members of the BCP refused to accept their new status as the opposition party and ceased attending sessions.

Some delegates left before the ceremony, three remaining refused to sign.

Due to Part XI, the United States refused to ratify the UNCLOS, although it expressed agreement with the remaining provisions of the Convention.

The remaining Palmyrenes who refused to surrender were captured by Aurelian and were executed on his orders.

In 2007, a section of the remaining UDF, headed by François Bayrou, refused to align themselves on Nicolas Sarkozy and created the MoDem in an attempt to make space for a center-right party.

Despite this, Charles refused to return the lands in Aquitaine to the English king, resulting in a provisional agreement under which Edward resumed administration of the remaining English territories in early 1326 whilst France continued to occupy the rest.

Initially GM refused, but after settling an unresolved tax dispute ( GM potentially owed the city of Norwood millions of dollars in back taxes ) GM agreed to demolish the remaining buildings and to donate ownership of the land to the City of Norwood.

Three remaining owners in the neighborhood fought Norwood ’ s use of eminent domain and refused to sell their property.

However, Colley refused the Taoiseach's request and insisted on remaining in the race, but he was defeated by Lynch.

He refused to join the staff of the BBC, and insisted on remaining a freelance, taking numerous external engagements to the detriment of his work with the BBC SO.

This arose tension and led to protests by a huge number of Kenyans who felt that Kibaki had refused to respect the verdict of the people and was now forcibly remaining in office.

The remaining British residents were asked to take an oath promising not to take up arms against the French ; Clive and a handful of others refused, and were kept under weak guard as the French prepared to destroy the fort.

Rogers, in turn, took the rights to those albums with him as RCA refused to keep them, with only Once Upon A Christmas ( a 1984 album of seasonal duets with Parton ) remaining in print.

As part of their aim to dismantle the remaining Czechoslovakian state, German representatives in February 1939 tried to persuade Tiso to declare Slovakia independent, but Tiso refused.

The remaining twenty-nine paintings ( one, a Degas, was taken by Renoir in payment for his services as executor ) were offered to the French government twice more, in 1904 and 1908, and were both times refused.

A few months later, the island of Montserrat ( one of the United Kingdom's few remaining overseas territories ) was devastated by a volcano eruption which rendered half the island uninhabitable ; when the 4, 500 islanders asked for more help from the DfID, Short was reported to have remarked " they will be asking for golden elephants next ", and refused to visit the island.

On May 31, 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to grant Black leave to appeal his two remaining convictions without any comment.

The remaining Ex-Collegians, led by their quarterback and captain, Menz Lindsey, at first refused to join Fausch and Ingle.

In 1945 the Italian and Hungarian internees were released but the Britons refused to repatriate the remaining German internees to the British zone in Germany.

The commanderies of Changsha and Guiyang ( 桂陽 ) immediately surrendered, but the remaining Lingling ( 零陵 ) refused to submit.

At the 1968 Republican National Convention ( where he gave the keynote address ) Evans refused to endorse Nixon for the presidential nomination, remaining a supporter of the unsuccessful candidacy of Nelson Rockefeller.

Gothic counts of Nîmes, Melguelh, Agde and Béziers refused allegiance to the emir at Córdoba and declared their loyalty to the Frankish king — the count of Nîmes, Ansemund, having some authority over the remaining counts.

But when a board of inquiry was called to look into the charges of cowardice made against him, the men who had seen Reno leave the battlefield and the officer who had heard Reno suggest that the wounded be left to be tortured by the Sioux, refused to say a harsh word against him.

The report in the Irish Bulletin noted that the content of the speech proved too much for many of the RIC men who refused to carry out the order and one officer, Constable Jeremiah Mee, put his gun on the table and called Smyth a murderer.

The assembled men refused to acknowledge his authority, insisting they would only follow Allen's lead.

He was one of three men who refused to sign the United States Constitution because it did not then include a Bill of Rights.

The Geneva council refused to readmit the two men, who took refuge in Basel.

Lesbian-feminists eschewed gender role play that had been pervasive in bars, as well as the perceived chauvinism of gay men ; many lesbian-feminists refused to work with gay men, or take up their causes.

Respondents to Hite's questions indicated that 8 % preferred sex with women and 9 % answered that they identified as bisexual or had sexual experiences with men and women, though they refused to indicate preference.

He flatly refused to employ retaliatory tactics and did not publicly complain even though he and his men were repeatedly hit.

Suspicious of the two men, Garza refused the offer but did not report them to authorities.

The growth of lesbian feminism in the 1970s at times so conflicted with the gay liberation movement that some lesbians refused to work with gay men.

Through these two men a military revolution was speedily accomplished ; they refused to renew their vows of allegiance to Emperor Galba on 1 January 69, and early in 69 Vitellius was proclaimed emperor at Cologne.

Though advised by a pro-Fatah Jordanian divisional commander to withdraw his men and headquarters to the nearby hills, Arafat refused, stating, " We want to convince the world that there are those in the Arab world who will not withdraw or flee.

His men caused an affray in Dover, and Edward ordered Godwin as earl of Kent to punish the town's burgesses, but he took their side and refused.

Reparations and state pensions available to other groups were refused to gay men, who were still classified as criminals — the Nazi anti-gay law was not repealed until 1994, although both East and West Germany liberalized their criminal laws against adult homosexuality in the late 1960s.

However, a large number of men refused to fight Mortimer and the Queen ; Henry of Lancaster, for example, was not even summoned by the king, and he showed his loyalties by raising an army, seizing a cache of Despenser treasure from Leicester Abbey, and marching south to join Mortimer.

The government in Washington, D. C., refused to approve Sherman's terms and the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, denounced Sherman publicly, precipitating a long-lasting feud between the two men.

Subsequently, it became a popular concert work and when the two men met again in 1925, Ravel refused to shake Diaghilev's hand.

The men opened fire on Macedonian police when they refused to pull over.

Although Warwick's force had more men than Edward's army, the earl refused the challenge.

Their arguments were that Asians and Chinese took jobs away from white men, worked for " substandard " wages, lowered working conditions and refused unionisation.

Because he still hoped to be a candidate, Stevenson refused to give the nominating address for relative newcomer John F. Kennedy, which strained relations between the two men.

These were the men who refused to join their conspiracy or take part in their crimes or submit to their pollution.

With Richard's volunteering his time as legal counsel, they refused to pay fines, and the two men spent a month in prison.

Gough wanted the Australian 1st Division to attack immediately but the division's British commander, Major General Harold Walker, refused to send his men in without adequate preparation.