John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

He appears to have been a Gentile – for Paul sternly refused to have him circumcised, because Paul believed Christ's gospel freed believers from the requirements of the 613 Mitzvot — and to have been chiefly engaged in ministering to Gentiles.

The Minḥat Ḳenaot is instructive reading for the historian because it throws much light upon the deeper problems which agitated Judaism, the question of the relation of religion to the philosophy of the age, which neither the zeal of the fanatic nor the bold attitude of the liberal-minded could solve in any fixed dogmatic form or by any anathema, as the independent spirit of the congregations refused to accord to the rabbis the power possessed by the Church of dictating to the people what they should believe or respect.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

Waldo Dunnington, a biographer of Gauss, argues in Gauss, Titan of Science that Gauss was in fact in full possession of non-Euclidean geometry long before it was published by János Bolyai, but that he refused to publish any of it because of his fear of controversy.

The NFL has so far refused to acknowledge AAFC statistics and records because the Browns ' achievements – including their perfect season – did not take place in the NFL or against NFL teams, and not even in a league fully absorbed by the NFL.

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

Yale initially refused to join this association because of a disagreement over the number of players to be allowed per team ( relenting in 1879 ) and Rutgers were not invited to the meeting.

Kenya's victories over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, among others – and a forfeit by the New Zealand team, which refused to play in Kenya because of security concerns – enabled Kenya to reach the semi-finals, the best result by an associate.

The Bush administration is responsible for these abuses, not only because the contras are, for all practical purposes, a U. S. force, but also because the Bush administration has continued to minimize and deny these violations, and has refused to investigate them seriously.

According to a report in the British Medical Journal, use of DDT in Mozambique " was stopped several decades ago, because 80 % of the country's health budget came from donor funds, and donors refused to allow the use of DDT.

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.

A poem from around 1020, the Austrfaravísur (' Eastern-journey verses ') of Sigvat Thordarson, mentions that, as a Christian, he was refused board in a heathen household, in Sweden, because an álfablót (" elves ' sacrifice ") was being conducted there.

When Napoleon I ordered the invasion of Portugal in 1807 because it refused to join the Continental System, the Portuguese Braganças moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro to avoid the fate of the Spanish Bourbons ( Napoleon I arrested them and made his brother Joseph king ).

She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on Heracles.

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

Economically, many peasant women refused to sell their goods for assignats because this form of currency was unstable and was backed by the sale of confiscated Church property.

Film historian Michael Medved agrees with and understands Capra's impressions, noting that he walked away from the movie business because " he refused to adjust to the cynicism of the new order.

Once there, they refused to recognise Gregory's position as head of the church of Constantinople, arguing that his transfer from the See of Sasima was canonically illegitimate because one of the canons of the Council of Nicaea had forbidden bishops to transfer from their sees.

The lands out west yielded little income because they were under attack by Indians and the squatters living there refused to pay him rent.

Her father Thomas refused marriage because of Stephenson's lowly status as a miner.

Gorham refused to accept money for slave property, but did he realize how much expense and trouble the transportation of his Negroes to the North involved??

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

Hippias refused it and Iolcos as well, the Thessalian offer, as Amyntas probably did not possess Anthemous at that time, but was merely suggesting a plan of joint occupation to Hippias.

In Germany, the production's lead actress refused to play the part of Nora unless Ibsen changed the ending, which, under pressure, he eventually did.

Jeremiah's fellow Israelites refused to heed his warnings and did not repent.

The Liberal Party refused the offer but some of their members did cross the floor and join the government.

Many fans and media were beginning to blame Jerry Jones for the team's ills, noting that he refused to hire a strong coach or general manager, preferring to hire coaches who did not want to be involved with personnel duties so that Jones himself, as GM, could manage them.

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

From the beginning the Emperor had refused to accept the will of Charles II, and he did not wait for England and the Dutch Republic to begin hostilities.

Esther sent clean clothes to him, but he refused them, explaining that deliverance for the Jews would come from some other place, but that Esther would be killed if she did not do what she could to stop this genocide — by talking to the king.

Kaiser Permanente did not change its methods of evaluating whether or not new therapies were too " experimental " to be covered until it was successfully sued twice: once for delaying in vitro fertilization treatments for two years after the courts determined that scientific evidence of efficacy and safety had reached the " reasonable " stage ; and in another case where Kaiser refused to pay for liver transplantation in infants when it had already been shown to be effective in adults, on the basis that use in infants was still " experimental.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

The Polish government did not trust Hitler's promises and refused to accept Germany's demands.

) Spanish has similar pairs for certain verbs, such as ( imperfect and preterite, respectively ) sabía " I knew " vs. supe " I found out ", podía " I was able to " vs. pude " I succeeded ( in doing something )", quería " I wanted to " vs. quise " I tried to ", no quería " I did not want to " vs. no quise " I refused ( to do something )".

Vásquez had refused to help with the referendum because he did not want to violate the law.

However, all 15 councils which initially refused to set a rate eventually did so, and the campaign failed to change Government policy.

He refused to enter a house with his left foot going forward, and if anyone else did they would be told to leave and re-enter.

Not only did his company warn against certain fire hazards, it refused to insure certain buildings where the risk of fire was too great, such as all wooden houses.

Although the new treaty called for ten more years of trade between the U. S. and the British Empire, and gave American merchants certain guarantees that would have been good for business, Jefferson refused to give up the potential weapon of commercial warfare against Britain and was unhappy that it did not end the hated British practice of impressment of American sailors.

Ciano complained in his diary that his arguments " had no effect " ( niente da fare ) on Ribbentrop, who simply refused to believe any information that did not fit in with his preconceived notions.

He refused William's request for the earldom of Northumbria, but did not intervene in Scotland itself and focused on his continental problems.