Suppose her father had changed his mind and had refused to let her leave??

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.

In Germany, the actress Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to perform the play as written, declaring that " I would never leave my children!

The Catholic inhabitants of the city were granted the freedom to leave unharmed, but many refused and opted to stay and fight alongside the Cathars.

Xavier had wanted to return to the mainland in order to clear his name, but in the aftermath of Osborn declaring Utopia as a mutant detention area, Cyclops refused to let him leave, stating that it would be a tactical advantage to have him as an ace in the hole in case the need arose.

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.

On his accession to the imperial throne, Theodosius offered to confirm Demophilus as bishop of the imperial city on the condition of accepting the Nicene Creed ; however, Demophilus refused to abandon his Arian beliefs, and was immediately ordered to give up his churches and leave Constantinople.

Washington delivered the letter to the local French commander, who politely refused to leave.

Unhappy with Marcellus ' strictness, they tried to elect a legate named Priscus as usurper governor ; he refused, but Marcellus was lucky to leave the province alive.

Elizabeth's relatives repeatedly urged her to leave him, and offered to have him committed as insane, but she refused.

Although providing a major morale boost for the Ottomans, the operation failed to achieve its primary objective, as Kountouriotis refused to leave his post and pursue the Hamidiye.

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.

In 1835, the Seminole refused to leave their lands in Florida, leading to the Second Seminole War.

There is a little-known coda to the Milgram Experiment, reported by Philip Zimbardo: none of the participants who refused to administer the final shocks insisted that the experiment itself be terminated, nor left the room to check the health of the victim without requesting permission to leave, as per Milgram's notes and recollections, when Zimbardo asked him about that point.

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.

Asbury refused to leave.

In order to keep Arabs, whom he stated would never accept Israel as a Jewish state, from becoming a numerical majority in Israel, he proposed a plan allowing Arabs to voluntarily leave Israel and receive compensation for their property, and forcibly removing Arabs who refused.

Despite the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917, the former Dowager Empress Maria at first refused to leave Russia.

Minos refused to let Polyidus leave Crete until he taught Glaucus the art of divination.

Polish officials refused to allow Soviet troops on to Polish territory if Germany attacked ; as Polish foreign minister Józef Beck pointed out, they feared that once the Red Army entered their territories, it might never leave.

Some rescue workers refused to leave until police ordered the mandatory evacuation of a four-block area around the site.

On November 17, 2008, McCready spoke in more detail to Inside Edition about her affair with Clemens, stating that their relationship lasted for more than a decade, and that it ended when Clemens refused to leave his wife to marry McCready.

The owners of this Chongqing " nail house " refused to leave it, thwarting plans for a shopping mall.

They refused to leave London during the Blitz and were indefatigable in visiting troops, munition factories, dockyards, and hospitals all over the country.

: Much of the violence in this national strike was not specifically racial, but in Iowa, where the employees of Consolidation Coal Company ( Iowa ) refused to join the strike, armed confrontation between strikers and strike breakers took on racial overtones because the majority of Consolidation's employees were African American.

Twelve nuns and employees of the Temple refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

Railway employees had refused to handle Pullman cars in sympathy with the strikers ; this action threatened to paralyze the nation's rail lines.

Robertson ordered federal government employees back to work, threatening them with dismissal if they refused.

McDonalds defense has been limited only to witness statements from their employees, and they have refused to answer a request that they examine their surveillance videos.

In 1907 W. Bayne took over the administration of the CUR company, and became the first president of the country who refused to be president of the club ( with this going to lower-ranking employees ).

With the support of the group Citizens Against Socialist Housing ( CASH ) and drawing on the anti-communist atmosphere of the time, Poulson promised to end support for such " un-American " housing projects and to fire city employees who were communists or who refused to answer questions about their political activities.

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which turned Church lands into state property and the clergy into employees of the state, created a bitter division within the church between those " jurors " who took the required oath of allegiance to the state ( the abbé Grégoire or Pierre Daunou ) and the " non-jurors " who refused to do so.

Target Corporation was approached by many buyers for both stores but many of the potential buyers only saw value in the real estate, Target refused to sell to the groups which only wanted to the property and said they would only look at deals that would not close the company and out the then 30, 000 employees out of work.

Engineers and technicians who were members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers refused to cross the AFTRA picket line, leaving the station's management and other non-union employees to produce the three-hour inaugural broadcast.

This, however, does not cover industrial action, so following ancient common law on part performance of work, employees who refused to 3 out of 37 hours a week in minor workplace disobendience, had their pay cut for the full 37.

* Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( Constitution civile du clergé ) – 1790, confiscated Church lands and turned the Catholic clergy into state employees ; those who refused out of loyalty to Rome and tradition were persecuted ; those who obeyed were excommunicated ; partially reversed by Napoleon's Concordat of 1801.

Additionally, the act outlawed yellow-dog contracts, which were documents some employers forced their employees to sign to ensure they would not join a union ; employees who refused to sign were terminated from their jobs.

He was asked to leave the area several times by airline employees but refused to do so until airport police were called in.

Hearst's thoughts about the film are unknown ; what is certain is that his extensive chain of newspapers and radio stations blocked all mentions of the film, and refused to accept advertising for it, while some Hearst employees worked behind the scenes to block or restrict its distribution.

Sales may be refused to minors or persons without the proper ID at the discretion of the employees on duty at that particular location.

Twelve nuns and employees of the temple, including then-abbess Venerable Yi Kung who would later resign from the abbotship because of the scandal, refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

Through many difficult recessions he refused to lay off employees, a reaction to the rampant layoffs that had occurred at Fairchild earlier.

Helen Malloy was a founding member of the Housewives League of Detroit, a group of African-American women who organized campaigns to support black-owned businesses and boycott stores that refused to hire black employees.

Erie management had refused a wage increase but compromised by asking employees to wait until January 1915 for any advance.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Robert's grandfather Walter A. Haas, Sr. refused to lay off idled employees, risking bankruptcy.

After providing temporary support for the defenders of Fort Pickens who refused to follow Armstrong's example, Walke took off some of the loyal sailors and navy yard employees and got underway for New York on the 16th.