In New York City in 1958, the city's Commissioner of Hospitals refused to permit a physician to provide a Protestant mother with a contraceptive device.

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.

Brueys refused, in the belief that his squadron could provide essential support to the French army on shore, and called his captains aboard his 120-gun flagship Orient to discuss their response should Nelson discover the fleet in its anchorage.

FDR refused to make LaGuardia a general and was unable to provide fresh money for the city.

There were serious threats of disunion from New England, which engaged in extensive smuggling with Canada and refused to provide financial support or soldiers.

Nonetheless, when John left for Poitou in February 1214, many barons refused to provide military service ; mercenary knights had to fill the gaps.

However, the Gulf Arab States — Arafat's usual source for financial backing — still refused to provide him and the PLO with any major donations because of his sympathy for Iraq during the Gulf War, in 1991.

After The Sunday Times branded his speeches " racialist ", Powell sued it for libel but withdrew when he was required to provide the letters he had quoted from because he had promised anonymity from the writer, who refused to waive it.

The report noted that although the Army authorities were ready and willing to provide information and take part in meetings, the Navy were often absent from Board meetings and frequently refused to provide information on naval aviation.

The president refused to provide the information, to the surprise of the congressional committee.

Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theater members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasberg.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticized the decision, and Israeli officials refused to provide information requested by the Spanish court.

In 1952, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership ( RCNL ), led by T. R. M. Howard, a black surgeon, entrepreneur, and planter, organized a successful boycott of gas stations in Mississippi that refused to provide restrooms for blacks.

After the Soviets refused to provide China with R-12 ( SS-4 ) missile design, China decided to develop their own IRBM in early 1960s.

When Robert Goulden refused to provide a dowry for his daughter, the man withdrew his offer of marriage and Pankhurst returned, miserable, to Manchester.

However, the team at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, the world's only producer of berkelium, refused to provide any, citing a lack of production of the exotic material.

On July 7, 1991, Hong Kong Office of the Commissioner of Banking ( forerunner of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority ) ordered BCCI to shut down its business in Hong Kong on the grounds that BCCI had problem loans and the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, the major shareholder of BCCI, refused to provide funds to the Hong Kong BCCI.

Ricci later died in jail from a brain hemorrhage a few weeks after he refused to provide a confession to Utah corrections officers.

Hershey has no policies in place to purchase cocoa that has been produced without the use of labor exploitation, and the company has consistently refused to provide public information about its cocoa sources.

Masaaki Hatsumi has attempted to join the Nihon Kobudo Shinkokai, the oldest koryu organization in Japan, but was refused entry when he did not provide evidence of a historical link between the teachings of the Bujinkan and ninjutsu for inspection.

At about the same time, the state agriculture minister barred the company from selling any Bt cotton seeds in the state, because Monsanto refused a request by the state government to provide a compensation package of about Rs 4. 5 crore ( about 1 Million US $) to indebted farmers in some districts, and because the government blamed Monsanto's Bt seeds for crop failures.

The Ombudsman concluded that a woman was due compensation after Hammersmith and Fulham had refused to provide accommodation for her despite being pregnant and seeking escape from domestic violence.

In 1841, 38 Mendi Africans and Cinqué, the leader of the revolt on the Amistad slave ship, were housed and educated in Farmington after the U. S. government refused to provide for their return to Africa following the trial.

Howard introduced Evers to civil rights activism through the Regional Council of Negro Leadership which organized a boycott against service stations which refused to provide restrooms for blacks.

Police stopped one of the cars and arrested the occupants, who refused to produce any form of identification.

In section 17 of his 1961 " addenda " to The Open Society, entitled " Facts, Standards and Truth: A Further Criticism of Relativism ," Popper refused to moderate his criticism of the Hegelian dialectic, arguing that it " played a major role in the downfall of the liberal movement in Germany ,... by contributing to historicism and to an identification of might and right, encouraged totalitarian modes of thought.

He refused to show his identification to the campus police and was arrested.

Murray was described as “ young and forceful ” by the report, lied to investigators, and refused to participate in identity parades ; to this day he wears the beard which it is suspected he originally grew to impede identification in case he were compelled to do so.

Underwood had also refused on one occasion to present his identification to a law enforcement officer.

To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

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.

Reportedly, he was kicked off the set of The Liberace Show for not wearing a tie, and he refused to cue a car salesman during a live feed because of his attitude towards stagehands.

In addition, Senator Al Gore refused to seek the nomination due to the fact his son was struck by a car and was undergoing extensive surgery as well as physical therapy.

On June 10, 1946, Johnson died in a car crash on U. S. Highway 1 near Franklinton, North Carolina, a small town near Raleigh, after racing angrily from a diner that refused to serve him.

I think it's across the bay, in Alameda ", stated that after her car was impounded because she refused to move it for the filming, she approached the assistant director about appearing with the other extras, hoping to be paid enough to get her car out of impoundment.

However, Gleason, at that time, was considered box-office poison by the studio after his film Gigot had flopped several years before, and Breslin refused to get behind the wheel of a car, which was required of Popeye's character for an integral car chase scene.

Guéï was killed when his car refused to stop at a roadblock in downtown Abidjan.

Four refused ; one accompanied him as far as his car, saw that there was no sailboat, and fled.

The second car still exists, but the owner has consistently refused to sell it at any price.

Ehrlich said Stone refused to leave his hotel room until he was given a police escort to the show and then waited in his car until the performance began.

The final break came when Transamerica refused to provide an expensive car for one of United Artists ' Hollywood executives.

In his 1988 book The Age of Heretics, author Art Kleiner maintained the real reason Chrysler refused to produce the car was because bankers had threatened to recall their loans, feeling the car would destroy sales for vehicles already in the distribution channels and second-hand cars.

He gave the officer his driver's license, twice refused to leave his car, then drove away.

An Italian KFOR patrol refused to lend fuel for the car which was transporting wounded children to hospital in Peć, when it ran out of fuel, and took no action when car was stoned by local Albanians.

The prosecution had provided evidence that he threatened the hostage at gunpoint, drove the car, and, when the car approached the mountaintop, refused to free the hostage despite suggestions from the activists.

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Harvey replied no, that he thought he might be at the airport because of the red lights ..... Harvey told the authorities he had been headed to a neighboring town to give a speech when his car died .... Under questioning, Harvey eventually dropped his cover story but refused to elaborate, saying he wanted to tell his tale before a congressional committee.

When she refused, he repeatedly hit her in the head with a hammer, stabbed her with a steak knife, and slashed her throat, before putting her body in his car and going to see a movie.