She entreated me to see a doctor, and when I refused, brought one out to see me.

Similarly, when a reporter once questioned Lincoln in cryptic fashion, Lincoln refused to make any further statement.

The night he saw it, a rather unpleasant situation arose when the soloist refused to approach the armadillo, complaining -- in ad-lib -- that `` it smelled ''.

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.

But when it came time for Admetus to die, his parents, whom he had assumed would gladly die for him, refused to cooperate.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

The Spanish parliament chose amongst several candidates, including a French Prince, which led to the Franco-Prussian War, when Bismarck refused to have another Frenchman in the Spanish Throne.

It was at Anah that the emperor Julian met the first opposition on his disastrous expedition against Persia ( 363 ), when he got possession of the place and transported the people ; and there that Ziyad and Shureih with the advanced guard of Ali's army were refused passage across the Euphrates ( 36 / 657 ) to join Ali in Mesopotamia ( Tabari i. 3261 ).

Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

At first, he sought an understanding with the Abbasids, but when they refused his terms and demanded his submission, Ibn Habib broke openly with the Abbasids and invited the remnants of the Umayyad dynasty to take refuge in his dominions.

One notable example occurred in 2000, when DC Comics refused to allow permission for the reprinting of four panels ( from Batman # 79, 92, 105 and 139 ) to illustrate Christopher York's paper All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s.

Bonaparte demanded that his fleet be permitted entry to the fortified harbour of Valletta, and when the demand was refused the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.

He was convicted as a rebel when, as an officer in the Union Defence Force, he refused to take up arms with the British.

A US-funded airlift of ammunition and rice ended when Congress refused additional aid for Cambodia.

This led to severe reports in the media of hundreds dead, when in fact none but two that refused to stay in the shelters were lost.

Such was the case with Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah, when Mature refused to wrestle the lion, though the lion was tame and toothless.

Ephesus was friendly to Cyril, Emperor Theodosius convoked Council of Ephesus ( in 431 ) before Nestorius's supporters from Antioch and Syria had arrived and thus Nestorius refused to attend when summoned.

The City and County's financing of the investment through the issuance and delivery of Bonds was delayed for two years, when Mayor Henry P. Coon, and the County Clerk, Wilhelm Loewy, each refused to countersign the Bonds.

The broad pro-government coalition, including FRUD candidates, again ran unopposed when the government refused to meet opposition preconditions for participation.

In 2008, the countries clashed again when Djibouti refused to return Eritrean deserters and Eritrea responded by firing at the Djiboutian forces.

The Columbia trustees refused to accept his resignation in December 1950, when he took leave from the university to become the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), and was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.

Later, when his crew refused to let Syn leave, Syn and Mipps slipped away in one of the ship's boats ; unknown to Syn, Mipps had arranged a convenient " accident " in the ship's powder hold with an exploding barrel of gunpowder, eliminating witnesses of Syn's piratic acts.

The garrison at Kenilworth refused to accept the terms given, and held out until 14 December, when deprivation forced them to surrender.

Another setting where there is usually gender discrimination is when one is refused to extend his or her credit, refused approval of credit / loan process, and if there is a burden of unequal loan terms based on one ’ s gender.

As one of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.

Carpenter refused to cast Bronson on the grounds that he was too old, and because he worried that he could lose directorial control over the picture with an experienced actor.

When informed that the film was to be made in Africa, Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, " If you can't shoot the picture in a boat on the back lot, then I'm not interested.

The inventor of the motion picture camera, Thomas Edison himself, was so annoyed by the stiffness of the early " talkies " that he refused to see them and returned to his favorite " silents " with Bow and Mary Pickford.

However, co-star Dean Martin refused to continue, saying that while he admired Remick, he had signed on to do the picture strictly to work with Monroe.

There is a story ( perhaps apocryphal ) that he was wounded at the Battle of Nancy, sheltered and cured by the Hospitallers at Bruges and that to show his gratitude he refused payment for a picture he had painted for them.

In November 1947, the leaders of the motion picture industry decided to deny employment to anyone who refused to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The British delegation refused to pose for the picture.

A photograph of Barbour with CCC members appeared on the CCC webpage, and some commentators and pundits demanded that Barbour ask for his picture to be removed from the site, but Barbour refused.

In July 2008, Bartman was offered $ 25, 000 to autograph a picture of himself at National Sports Collectors Convention in Rosemont, Illinois, but he refused the offer.

As Bolshevik forces approached Rostov he considered moving to Turkey, and prepared all the necessary paperwork ; his only extant picture comes from his Turkish visa, since he usually refused to be photographed.

Tensions between the band and the Hudson's chain escalated to the point that the department stores refused to carry any album from the Elektra label after the MC5 took out a full-page ad that, according to Danny Fields, " was just a picture of Rob Tyner, and the only copy was ' Fuck Hudson's.

Giving this picture a grain of credibility was that the Federal Republic of Germany until 1970 refused to recognize the Oder-Neisse Line and that some West German officials had a tainted Nazi past.

However, unlike his costars in the original show ( June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen and Angela Cartwright ) he refused to make a cameo appearance in the motion picture version of Lost in Space later that year.

But JVC also refused to compromise the picture quality of their format by allowing a 4-hour mode.

She also refused to have a picture taken with him, for fear of its being used for " propaganda purposes ".

Columbia Pictures refused to distribute the picture and the producers had to purchase back the rights and released it by other means.

After Columbia Pictures refused to distribute the picture, the producers Bert Schneider and Henry Jaglom purchased back the rights and released the film in March 1975 through Warner Bros. A planned December 18, 1974 opening in Los Angeles, California was canceled after the production company had been unable to pay the $ 1 million needed to buy the rights from Columbia Pictures.

In rebellion against the Academy's annual competition, the students refused to paint an exam picture on the given topic.

Rivera was asked to remove the picture of Lenin, but refused, instead offering to add Abraham Lincoln to the work as way of a compromise.

He was at first refused admittance on account of an impediment in his speech ; however, after imploring delivery from this impediment before a picture of Mary at Córdoba, Spain, his application was granted.