Algernon, however, refuses his consent until Ernest explains why his cigarette case bears the inscription, “ From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack .” John-Ernest is forced to admit to living a double life.

A stepparent adoption can still occur if the other birth parent refuses to give consent or cannot be located.

The social order is further consolidated by social edict: " A man who refuses to practice his livelihood or strives to alter status without consent of the Council of High Castes is by definition an outlaw.

Raj refuses and says he will only marry Simran with her father's consent.

Pete is in love with Kate ( Anny Ondra ), but when her father, Old Caesar ( Randie Ayrton ), refuses to consent to their marriage, Pete sets off for Africa to make his fortune, asking Philip to take care of Kate until he returns.

The British Government now refuses to discuss sovereignty without the consent of the Gibraltarians.

When Hunter refuses to consent, Ramsey tries to relieve him of duty and replace him with a different officer.

He refuses to consent to sex and leaves.

It is usually a business reorganisation or contract change that the employee refuses to consent to.

Justice Sears joined a 4-3 majority that found that the consent of one resident to search common spaces is not effective when the other resident is present and explicitly refuses consent.

Where a requested person refuses to consent to his or her surrender, the executing judicial authority should make a final decision within 60 days of the arrest.

In upper-class societies in Europe, if the man refuses marriage, he then must purchase 12 pairs of gloves for the woman, suggesting that the gloves are to hide the woman's embarrassment of not having an engagement ring.

The following morning, Mr Collins proposes marriage to Elizabeth, who refuses him, much to her mother's distress.

If the guardian refuses, a judge will effect the marriage.

Stavros realizes that such a marriage would mean the end of his American dream and adamantly refuses, abruptly leaving the angry cousin.

Danaher, angry that Sean outbid him for the Thornton land adjacent to his property, initially refuses to sanction the marriage until several town locals, including the parish priest, conspire to trick him into believing that the wealthy Widow Tillane ( Mildred Natwick ) wants to marry him, but only if Mary Kate is no longer living in the house.

Princess Shalmar refuses to marry Jeff, even though Orville is eager to get out of the marriage.

He wants to delay their marriage and refuses to take up a job as a stockbroker offered to him by Henry Maturin, the father of his friend Gray.

Benjamin ( Brel ) is a country doctor in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter, Manette, but she refuses his advances until he produces a marriage contract.

Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey when she is on trial for poisoning her lover ( Strong Poison ) — he falls in love with her and proposes marriage but she refuses to begin a relationship with him, traumatised as she is by her dead lover's treatment of her and her recent ordeal.

Her marriage with Octave is seen as a victory of women over a man who refuses to be conquered and whose aim is to subjugate and exploit women using their own senses.

At home, J's relationship with his wife deteriorates when he begs her to beat him ; she refuses, calling him a pervert as we learn that his sexual desires have been a strain on their marriage for years.

Kim refuses Thuy's renewed offer of marriage and introduces him to Tam, her three-year-old son fathered by Chris.

Without many words, Oliver asks her to let him divorce her, but clinging to the only thing she has left in her life — her marriage — she refuses.

The Council of Trent considered the matter and at its twenty-fourth session decreed that marriage after ordination was invalid: " If any one saith, that clerics constituted in sacred orders, or Regulars, who have solemnly professed chastity, are able to contract marriage, and that being contracted it is valid, notwithstanding the ecclesiastical law, or vow ; and that the contrary is no thing else than to condemn marriage ; and, that all who do not feel that they have the gift of chastity, even though they have made a vow thereof, may contract marriage ; let him be anathema: seeing that God refuses not that gift to those who ask for it rightly, neither does He suffer us to be tempted above that which we are able " ( canon 9 ).

She comes to like him well enough, and even saves his life once, but when he makes her an unadorned offer of marriage, she refuses ; she values her independence too much and him too little.

The king, however, refuses to sanction the marriage because Louise is of inferior social status, and so marriage is delayed until Louise has earned her fortune and Raoul grows in prestige.

While the family is in town, Dewey Dell tries to buy a drug that will abort her unwanted pregnancy, but the pharmacist refuses to sell it to her, and advises marriage instead.

Baldwin asks Balian to marry Sibylla, knowing they have affection for each other, but Balian refuses because in order for the marriage to occur Guy would have to be killed.

It would be the first church to recognize and perform religious same-sex marriages in the country, as the Roman Catholic Church ( the former state church ) refuses to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies or adoptions.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

" in which he dealt with the debate between Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin at the First International and afterwards he suggested that " Libertarian marxism rejects determinism and fatalism, giving the greator place to individual will, intuition, imagination, reflex speeds, and to the deep instincts of the masses, which are more far-seeing in hours of crisis than the reasonings of the ‘ elites ’; libertarian marxism thinks of the effects of surprise, provocation and boldness, refuses to be cluttered and paralysed by a heavy ‘ scientific ’ apparatus, doesn ’ t equivocate or bluff, and guards itself from adventurism as much as from fear of the unknown.

Monaco is the only territory that refuses to perform the second round, initially forecast between 2001 and 2003, whereas the 21 other territories are implementing the third and last round, planned between 2005 and 2007.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones.

* The Siege of Kerak is waged between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders, in which regent Guy of Lusignan refuses to fight.

The Noodler's Ink Company even goes so far as to maintain a " zero disposable cartridge " policy and refuses to issue any cartridges due to their high levels of economic and environmental waste ( a single bottle of ink can represent a few hundred international cartridges at between 350 % and 780 % the cost of similar bottled ink on a volume / dye content comparison depending upon different brand costs ).

When Antiochus refuses, the Battle of Magnesia is fought near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia in Anatolia, between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum, and the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.

He refuses, however, to explain the relationship between Brahman and māyā.

The mayor stated that he refuses to stop meeting with groups, and that he would go to jail if given the choice between going to jail or not associating with the group.

Bracken's extensive television roles between 1952 and 2000 include an episode of The Golden Girls as Rose Nylund's ex-childhood boyfriend from St. Olaf, as well as an episode of Tales from the Darkside playing a stubborn old man who refuses to believe that he has died.

Environmental pragmatism refuses to take a stance in the dispute between the defenders of anthropocentrist ethics and the supporters of nonanthropocentrist ethics.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

The Pashtun dominated Government of Afghanistan not only refuses to recognize the Durand Line as the international border between the two countries, it claims that the Pashtun territories of Pakistan rightly belong to Afghanistan.

The Caliph refuses to provide Sokurah a ship and crew to retrieve his lamp and threatens to have him blinded if he is not out of Bagdad before sunset because he prophecises war between the two nations when asked to look into the Future of the two nations.

Megatron offers a truce between the Autobots and Decepticons after Cybertron is destroyed as long as he's in charge of the Decepticons again, but Optimus refuses and kills Megatron and Sentinel.

" The FBI still refuses to turn over nearly 200 pages of documents pertaining to Walter Reuther's death, and correspondence between field offices and J. Edgar Hoover.

Melanie refuses to believe that there is anything wrong between her husband and ' sister ', and saves Scarlett's reputation by graciously asking her to co-hostess Ashley's birthday party that night.

After a long battle between the two, Jason refuses Dick's help, while hanging on to a protruding ledge over Gotham's bay, Jason lets himself fall into the water.

Miller refuses and an argument erupts, leading to an exchange of fire between Beckett and Miller which ends when the latter runs out of ammunition.

Perhaps the most interesting difference between Libertarian National Conventions and those of the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States is that the Libertarian Party has not and refuses to accept taxpayer money to pay for its convention.

However, Bodhi refuses to pull the rip cord and Utah must decide between dropping his gun ( so he can hold on and pull the rip cord ) or letting the two fall to the ground.

Brian is forced to decide between the money offered which would surely help him get his bar started versus a life with Jordan and his child ; Brian refuses the money.

At one point, Violet and Quigley stop for a rest and Snicket refuses to reveal what happens between the two, commenting that Violet and Quigley have been deprived of privacy.