Parliament refused to confirm the dismissal of either Lumumba or Kasavubu and sought to bring about a reconciliation between them.

" Francisco Madero refused the recommendation of some of his advisors that he bring back censorship.

When Polk recovered, his father offered to bring him into the mercantile business, but Polk refused.

The upshot of this was that Gregory refused to pay the additional taxes, he encouraged the Roman populace to drive the imperial governor of Rome from the city, and Leo was unable to impose his will upon Rome, as Lombard pressure kept the exarch of Ravenna from fielding an army to bring the pope to heel.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

The French refused to bring troops home from Salonika, which Kitchener thought a play for the increase of French power in the Mediterranean.

Legislation and Law Enforcement: In 2010, Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior al-Qa ’ ida ( AQ ) members it continued to detain, and refused to publicly identify those senior members in its custody.

A frequent theme was the claim that Winston Churchill had advance knowledge of the Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor, and refused to warn the Americans in order to bring the United States into World War II.

In the October 2000 elections, Guéï was defeated by Laurent Gbagbo of the Ivorian Popular Front, but he refused to recognize the result and it took a spate of street protests to bring Gbagbo to power.

In 1980, he began as one of the cast members on ABC's Fridays television show, including a famous instance in which guest Andy Kaufman refused to deliver his scripted lines, leading Richards to bring the cue cards on screen to Kaufman causing him to throw his drink into Richards ' face, before a small riot ensued ( Richards later claimed he was in on the joke ).

The legend goes that Gould wanted to bring his railroad through Jefferson but the town leaders refused because they had the river traffic.

In 1853 the Liberal-Conservative party, formed in 1854 by a coalition, attempted to bring him out as a candidate for the upper house, which was at this date elective, but though he had broken with the advanced reformers, he could not approve of the tactics of their opponents, and refused to stand.

Following his death as Henry III tried to bring order to the country the mercenary Robert de Gaugy refused to yield Newark Castle to the Bishop of Lincoln, its rightful owner, leading to the Dauphin of France ( later King Louis VIII of France ) laying an eight day siege on behalf of the king, ended by an agreement to pay the mercenary to leave.

One of their ventures, known as the Cuyahoga Purchase, came to naught when the Ohio Indians from whom the land had been acquired at the end of the Northwest Indian War refused to bring forth their land claims at the Treaty of Greenville.

On her deathbed, her two brothers, Henry and Laurence, tried to bring an Anglican priest to give her communion, but Anne refused and furthermore, she received viaticum of the Roman Catholic Church.

When Storm led a team of X-Men in search of Destiny's diaries, the thirteen-volume Books of Truth, Gambit volunteered to join them, but Rogue — afraid that her increasingly uncontrolled powers would bring him harm — flatly refused to allow him along.

He acquired the control of the Duke's finances, and endeavoured to bring about a match between the duke and Marie de Longueville, but the French court refused approval.

) Goldberg soon learned San Diego was to be shut out of the pending ABA-NBA merger that would bring the ABA into the National Basketball Association ; the Sails were to be left out reportedly at the insistence of Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke, who refused to share his Southern California fan base with a team to the south.

One morning in the winter of 194 BC, Emperor Hui went for a hunting trip and did not bring Liu Ruyi with him because the latter refused to get out of bed.

Garland was ordered to bring a suit in the name of the United States to invalidate the Bell patent, breaking their monopoly of telephone technology, but refused to do so.

However, when the WJC brought the Arab League document before the ECOSOC, its president Charles H. Malik, a representative of Lebanon to the UN, refused to bring it to the floor.

His songs ( such as Le Vieux Drapeau ), helped to bring about the revolution of 1830, and he played a part, with his friends Lafitte and Lafayette, in placing Louis Philippe I upon the throne, but refused all the appointments proffered by the king and his ministers ; he simply desired to live as a philosopher, content with the income from the sale of his songs, and preserving his personal independence.

< p > I felt that the situation was tense enough without doing something to bring a worse situation about, and I refused to do it.

Moreover, when he learned that the French ambassadors, who had left the council, were dissatisfied because the legates had obtained from the council approval of a project for the " reformation of the princes ", which the latter deemed contrary to the liberties of the Gallican church, he endeavoured, though without success, to bring about the return of the ambassadors, prevailed on the legates to withdraw the objectionable articles and strove to secure the immediate publication in France of the decrees of the council ; this, however, was refused by Catherine de ' Medici.

The Eau Claire district attorney, a Republican, refused to dismiss the attempted adultery charge.

Patricia Highsmith, writing as Claire Morgan, wrote The Price of Salt in 1951 and refused to follow this directive, but instead used a pseudonym.

Powers later recalled that the manager of the Eau Claire club, Abe Devine, ran a saloon and refused to use Lowe because he refused to patronize his saloon.

Later that year, it decided to partly obscure the covers of Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Redbook on store shelves due to " customer concerns ", and refused to stock an issue of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit special because it took exception to one photograph.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Finally, he was cooking, washing dishes, bathing the children, and even ironing -- and still his wife refused to have relations as often as he desired them.

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

From the very beginning Mayotte refused to join the new republic and aligned itself even more firmly to the French Republic, but the other islands remained committed to independence.

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.

" Chiang even refused to negotiate a prisoner swap for his son in exchange for the Chinese Communist Party leader.

Up to 20 % of patients receiving highly emetogenic agents in this era postponed, or even refused, potentially curative treatments.

Cuauhtémoc was tortured by having his feet put to a fire, along with Tetlepanquetzal, the tlatoani of Tlacopán, and the Cihuacóatl ( counselor ) Tlacotzin, but even so they refused to divulge information about the treasures the Spanish coveted.

Meanwhile, he refused to induct Tex Schramm ( even after Schramm's induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame ).

They said that among those signing the letter were officers who had no knowledge of their inclusion or who had refused to be included, and even one instance of a general's widow who signed her husband's name to the letter though he had died before the survey was published.

He attracted national attention in 1934 when he refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, even though the Tigers were in the middle of a pennant race and he was not in practice a religious Jew.

He refused even to consider the idea ( which some of the other Nazi leaders were open to, though only on pragmatic grounds as a way of encouraging Jewish emigration ) that German Jews be allowed to take their personal possessions with them when they left Germany.

Several sports journalists refused to pay even the slightest attention to the new sport.

Sayers refused even to see this movie.

Indeed, in the past many refused to swear oaths in court or to participate in trials, even when they faced imprisonment or deportation.

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

Amazingly, the physicist Pyotr Kapitsa refused to work with Beria even after he gave him a hunting rifle as a gift.

In it, Palin played a car salesman who repeatedly refused to admit that there was anything wrong with his customer's ( Chapman ) car, even as it fell apart in front of him.

By contrast, the residency, supported by French economic interests and vigorously backed by most of the colons, adamantly refused to consider even reforms short of independence.

In April 1942, after his requests for commissions as a war artist-or even leave to depict war damage in London-had been consistently refused, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to Southport Hospital.

“ It is chiefly due to the fact that one nation has not only refused to cooperate in the establishment of a just and honorable peace but — even worse — has actively sought to prevent it .”