The flag is usually flown by the government of the country holding the rotating presidency Council of Ministers, though in 2009 the Czech President, a eurosceptic, refused to fly the flag from his castle.

Buenos Aires refused permission for charter flights from Chile that served cruise ships to fly over Argentina to reach the islands.

The British Cabinet refused to approve the marriage, and newspapers reported that the marriage was " unthinkable " and " would fly in the face of Royal and Christian tradition ".

Ventura also stated that he had not left Minnesota for over a month at the time the story was published and that he has refused to fly commercially since filing an unsuccessful lawsuit against the TSA earlier that year.

However, this was met with resistance ; the flag was derided as the " slave's flag " ( orjalippu ), and most Finns refused to fly it.

Earhart was a vigorous advocate for female pilots and when the 1934 Bendix Trophy Race banned women, she openly refused to fly screen actress Mary Pickford to Cleveland to open the races.

After a two-hour delay the man was arrested, but the pilot refused to fly with Rambo on board.

These sanctions resulted in South African Airways being refused rights to fly over most African countries, and in addition to this the risk of flying over some African countries was emphasised by the shooting down of two passenger aircraft over Rhodesia, forcing them to fly around the " bulge " of Africa.

Southern sentiment remained in the city long after the Civil War — city hall reportedly refused to fly the United States Flag until the start of World War I.

The Chinese Commissioner Ye Mingchen refused and it was discovered that the Arrows registration as a British vessel expired three weeks before it was seized and therefore had no right to fly the flag or to be exempt from interception under international law.

He was supposed to be returning to Daugherty Field after authorities had refused his request to fly on to Ireland, but because of a claimed navigational error, he ended up in Ireland instead.

In 1931, as said before, he refused to allow Imperial Airways to fly in Persian airspace, instead giving the concession to German-owned Lufthansa Airlines.

The U. S. Air Force component of the raid is the first U. S. bomber mission launched from British soil since 1945 ; refused permission to fly over France and Spain, the F-111s make a 2, 800-mile ( 4, 500-km ) flight down the Atlantic Ocean and across the Mediterranean Sea to reach Libya from England ; they must be refueled several times in the air and their round-trip flight takes 14 hours.

After a contentious meeting in which Deval refused to provide satisfactory answers on 29 April 1827, the dey struck Deval with his fly whisk.

The deal is designed so that the rest of the squadron will not believe Yossarian will be sent home because he has " turned into such a stubborn son of a bitch " and refused to fly, but because-being a hero from the Ferrara mission in which he went into the flak zones a second time without support-he is being sent home as a P. R.

David Weld, the executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation, generically opined that " I personally just don't think that has any merit " yet refused to be specific or comment on the number of birds that come into contact with the island and fly back and forth between the mainland, possibly carrying infected ticks.

In one instance, a pilot refused to fly with only one functioning air-conditioning unit on a cross-country flight.

Omaha refused to stand still for the post-race ceremonies, meaning that Saunders had to collect the presentational rose wreath " on the fly ".

She did not fly on Sputnik 2 because she refused to eat properly.

Since the local Catholic diocese refused to perform a burial service for Gallo, Sina arranged for a priest to fly in from Cleveland, Ohio.

In addition, the German authorities in Tanganyika refused to fly the flag of the Zanzibar Sultanate, which led to armed clashes between German troops and the local population.

After the French surrender, Wintle demanded an aircraft ( with which he intended to rally the French Air Force to fly their planes to Britain and continue fighting Germany from British air bases ); when refused, he threatened an RAF officer ( Air Commodore A. R.

When Moldova became independent, some places in Transnistria refused to fly the new Moldovan flag and continued to fly the flag of the Soviet Union.

the Mexicans not only refused to give them, but told the possemen if they wanted a fight they could have it.

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.

He refused it because he did not agree with their beliefs, writing, " I shall have nothing to do with them.

She refused to go with them and demanded that they allow her to pray to the Mother of God for protection.

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.

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.

On his release, however, Romanus found that enemies had placed their own candidate on the throne in his absence ; he surrendered to them and suffered death by torture, and the new ruler, Michael VII Ducas, refused to honour the treaty.

When they heard of the Praetorians ' claim, they demanded that Claudius be delivered to them for approval, but he refused, sensing the danger that would come with complying.

He refused to accept all his predecessors ' titles ( including Imperator ) at the beginning of his reign, preferring to earn them in due course.

Exasperated by what he believed to be " nothing but a prank ", and convinced that the girls must have tampered with his camera in some way, Arthur Wright refused to lend it to them again.

Art historian and the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they “ professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them .” Together they shared an “ almost militant resolution ” against the Salon, and through their later correspondences it is clear that their mutual admiration “ was based on a kinship of ethical as well as aesthetic concerns ”.

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.

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

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.

Diocletian refused and fought a battle with them, but was unable to secure a complete victory.

Thomas refused to align himself with them and declined to sign their manifesto.

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

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.

If the gentry refused to collect the King's taxes, the Crown would lack any practical means with which to compel them.

Augustin Louis Cauchy refereed these papers, but refused to accept them for publication for reasons that still remain unclear.

After laying charges of sedition against the Jews, Haman gained the king's approval to write a decree for their destruction ; offering ten thousand silver talents to the king for approval of this plan, but the king refused to take them ().

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.

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 ).

However, RCA refused to pay him royalties and encouraged other television makers not to pay them either.