What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

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.

An American student named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of his evident aversion to people and had at last succeeded in getting him to talk to her.

Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.

After a successful campaign Manuel I and Andronikos returned together to Constantinople ( 1168 ); but a year later, Andronikos refused to take the oath of allegiance to the future king Béla III of Hungary, whom Manuel desired to become his successor.

He was trusting of his officials, perhaps too trusting, and it seems that there were many among the population who despised him, although he refused to take any action against those who insulted him publicly.

At first, he sought an understanding with the Abbasids, but when they refused his terms and demanded his submission, Ibn Habib broke openly with the Abbasids and invited the remnants of the Umayyad dynasty to take refuge in his dominions.

There is never any reason not to accept a sacrifice, as if it is refused, the player who offered it can always take it without penalty.

He was convicted as a rebel when, as an officer in the Union Defence Force, he refused to take up arms with the British.

A footnote in the New American Bible says: “ Some scholars take the call be eunuchs for the sake of heaven to be meant for those who have been divorced by their spouses and who have refused to enter into another marriage ” ( p. 1041 ).

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, Chiang Kai-shek's subordinates refused to take airbase construction seriously until enough capital had been delivered to permit embezzlement on a massive scale.

After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners, but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French if it had French passes.

Tensions among the Flavian troops ran high, but so long as either Galba or Otho remained in power, Vespasian refused to take action.

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 ().

Lincoln relayed this conversation to Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant of the Tower, who, knowing how physically and financially infirm Oxford was, refused to take Lincoln's report as a serious threat to King James ' accession.

Çelebi refused to take an official job that would keep him from travelling.

His " strong personality " and religious convictions began to concern local church authorities when he refused to attend church services or take communion.

By the mid-1780s, Rapp had begun preaching to the Separatists, his followers in Iptengen, who met privately and refused to attend church services or take communion.

Sherf's request was initially refused but he managed to persuade the driver to take him.

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.

Ribbentrop who considered taking declarations of war from such small states as Costa Rica and Ecuador to be deeply humiliating refused to see any of the Latin American ambassadors and instead had Weizsäcker take the Latin declarations of war.

Krishna accepted his daughter Satyabhāmā, but refused to take the Syamantaka.

" They asked Rock to take out the " I'm going platinum " line on the title track's chorus but he refused.

Foreign observers declared the elections fraudulent, and most of the elected opposition candidates refused to take their seats.

All of the bishops were then asked to sign their assent to the Tome, but a group of thirteen Egyptians refused, saying that they would assent to " the traditional faith.

At one point, however, Munch's father, perhaps swayed by the negative opinion of Munch's cousin Edvard Diriks ( an established, traditional painter ), destroyed at least one painting ( likely a nude ) and refused to advance any more money for art supplies.

Since the early 1970s he has refused to write for conventional symphony orchestras and has instead opted to write for his own idiosyncratic instrumental combinations, which often retain some traditional orchestral instruments alongside electric guitars, electric basses, and congas.

The nearly complete and mysterious disappearance of the Celtic language from most of the territorial lands of ancient Gaul, with the exception of Brittany, France, can be attributed to the fact that Celtic druids refused to allow the Celtic oral literature or traditional wisdom to be committed to the written letter.

Since these refused to submit voluntarily and tried to assert their traditional independence, his papacy is full of struggles against the higher ranks of the clergy.

In 1793, the French revolutionary government refused the traditional Andorran tribute as smacking of feudalism and renounced its suzerainty, despite the wish of the Andorrans to enjoy French protection and avoid being under exclusively Spanish influence.

Although the school was within the village, the traditional parents still refused to allow their children to attend.

Chirac also refused to debate with Le Pen, and the traditional televised debate was cancelled.

Under the " guidance " of John Sinclair ( who dubbed his enterprise " Trans-Love Energies " and refused to be categorized as a traditional manager ), the MC5 were soon involved in left-wing politics: Sinclair was active with the White Panther Party and Fifth Estate.

Romer, however, has not been widely cited beyond Lawrence, no doubt because Kennedy emphasized the " special " nature of Amendment 2 and refused to apply traditional rational-basis analysis to the Colorado law.

In 1550, another conflict arose when John Hooper, the new bishop of Gloucester, refused to don the traditional clothes for his consecration.

The British had asked for the traditional Honors of War ( marching out with dignity, flags waving, muskets shouldered, and playing an enemy tune as a tribute to the victors ), but remembering that the British, on taking Charleston earlier in the war, had refused the Americans ( under Benjamin Lincoln ) the same privilege, Washington firmly denied their request.

The patriarch Epiphanius invited him to perform Mass ; but the pope, mindful of the traditional policy of encroachment, refused to do so until they had offered him the first seat.

Because of the distance of the reservation from the traditional areas of most of the bands, and because of its poor environmental conditions, many Northern Paiute refused to go there.

She refused the traditional moral code.

Koch consistently demonstrated a fierce love for New York City, which some observers felt he carried to extremes on occasion: In 1984 he had gone on record as opposing the creation of a second telephone area code for the city, claiming that this would divide the city's population ; and when the National Football League's New York Giants won Super Bowl XXI in January 1987, he refused to grant a permit for the team to hold their traditional victory parade in the city, quipping famously, " If they want a parade, let them parade in front of the oil drums in Moonachie " ( the latter being a town in New Jersey adjacent to East Rutherford, site of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, where the Giants play their home games ).

The LNC attempted to negotiate a deal by which genuine mourners could still travel cheaply to the cemetery on the 11. 57 am service to Brookwood ( the SR service closest to the LNC's traditional departure time ), but the SR management ( themselves under severe financial pressure owing to wartime constraints and damage ) refused to entertain any compromise.

A bill in Congress to bypass the traditional five-year waiting procedure was rejected in 1988 because Czechoslovak authorities refused to provide the necessary waivers.

As a member of the 57th Street Meeting of the Quakers, Douglas recognized that joining the Marines was contrary to the traditional testimony of that group against war and offered to resign his membership ; the meeting refused to release him.

During the Boxer Rebellion, the xenophobic Chinese General Dong Fuxiang who commanded the Muslim Kansu Braves, refused to allow his troops to play western musical instruments, making them play traditional Chinese instruments such as the Sheng Jia.

The traditional hoplite infantry was no match for the novel long-speared Macedonian phalanx: the Theban army and its allies broke and fled, but the Sacred Band, although surrounded and overwhelmed, refused to surrender.

The Bhotias the traditional go between of the western Himalayas refused to offer any assistance to these suspicious looking men.

The Ixcanha Maya community had a population of some 1, 000 people who refused the Cruzob's break with traditional Catholicism.

Big Black booked their own tours, paid for their own recordings, and refused to sign contracts, eschewing many of the traditional corporate trappings of rock bands.