God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.

And I was certain he would refuse ''.

If to be a Christian means to say yes where I otherwise say no, or where I do not have the right to say anything at all, then my only choice is to refuse to be a Christian.

" On the morning of McVeigh's execution a letter was released in which he had written " For those die-hard conspiracy theorists who will refuse to believe this, I turn the tables and say: Show me where I needed anyone else.

On another occasion he stated somewhat more defensively, " I do not refuse my dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion.

If you refuse, I'll have you killed on the spot and I swear I will ravage every island with fire and steel.

* Darius I sends envoys to all Greek cities, demanding " earth and water for vassalage " which Athens and Sparta refuse however.

* John Balliol, King of Scotland, decides to refuse King Edward I of England's demands for support in a planned invasion of France, and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates the Auld Alliance with France and Norway.

But if she prefers to remain here, she is my sister and I refuse to expel her.

He became so powerful that he dared to refuse military aid to the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, which led to his condemnation and fall.

William I, King of the Netherlands, would refuse to recognize a Belgian state until 1839, when he had to yield under pressure by the Treaty of London.

He noted, " I couldn't refuse, but I must say when you come from the land of the snow goose, the moose and wool to New York, you're bringing every ton of hayseed and country bumpkin that you packed.

* I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

" Fellow-Citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath.

In the name of the nationality of Texas, which has been betrayed by the Convention, I refuse to take this oath.

In the name of the Constitution of Texas, I refuse to take this oath.

In the name of my own conscience and manhood, which this Convention would degrade by dragging me before it, to pander to the malice of my enemies, I refuse to take this oath.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.

`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!

Napoleon I of France took advantage of these developments to pursue a brutally effective " strategy of annihilation " ( see scorched earth ) that terrorized the populace and cared little for the mathematical perfection of the geometric strategy.

: I imagine it appears that I brutally killed both of my loved ones.

" In contrast, Don Taylor, who was a director in the drama department at the time, later claimed that he felt Newman was unsuited to the position of Head of Drama, writing: " To put it brutally, I was deeply offended that the premier position in television drama, at a time when it really was the National Theatre of the Air, had been given to a man whose values were entirely commercial, and who had no more than a layman's knowledge of the English theatrical tradition, let alone the drama of Europe and the wider world.

* In the movie That's What I Am, Principal Kelner ( Amy Madigan ) suspends a school bully for brutally beating up a female classmate who he thinks has " cooties ".

" I am often asked about my attitude to the Prayerbook Rebellion and in my opinion, there is no doubt that the English Government behaved brutally and stupidly and killed many Cornish people.

Whether on basis of his own opinion or in an agreement decided by everyone, I don't know, but some say he had been warned that the Indian nobles of the city had assembled to plot the mutiny and the rebellion, which they later carried out ; others, believe that Spaniards went to watch them perform this famous and praised dance, and seeing how rich they were and wanting the gold the Indians were wearing, he covered each of the entrances with ten or twelve Spaniards and went inside with more than fifty, and without remorse and lacking any Christian piety, they brutally stabbed and killed the Indians, and took what they were wearing.

While trying to deal with the storm, tragedy strikes when one of the town's residents is brutally murdered by André Linoge ( Colm Feore ), a menacing stranger who appears to know the town members ' darkest secrets, and who gives no hint of his motives other than the cryptic statement " Give me what I want, and I'll go away.

The mascots then begin to brutally attack Homer and Mr. Cleanser, identical to Mr. Clean right down to having the correct skin colour ( as opposed to the usual yellow skin of characters in the series ), angrily informs Homer in a German accent " I ... must ... destroy you!

Was brutally assaulted by the Sea Amigos after attempting to join them by singing " Stay ( I Missed You )" by Lisa Loeb in Brooklyn in 2008.

I wept at the end – to see Taran confronted with such a brutally difficult decision.

She stated " as far as I can tell, I am too brutally honest and opinionated for most people.

He is a firm believer in corporal punishment, often brutally beating his son and daughter whilst shouting " I will have respect from you, BY GOD I WILL!

Finally, in 69 BC the Armenian king Tigranes the Great besieged Cleopatra Selene I in Ptolemais, seizing and brutally killing her in Seleucia.

As the team's announcer, Scott broadcast Super Bowl I and II for CBS, along with the brutally cold " Ice Bowl " NFL championship game of 1967.