They only ate " aspiring vegetables " — those which grew upward — and refused those that grew downward like potatoes.

They refused the offer by Russian officials to move to new reservations in the Commander Islands.

They demanded Pasternak's signature as well, but he refused to give it.

They had an argument over a party Eugene held, which Gauss refused to pay for.

They said that among those signing the letter were officers who had no knowledge of their inclusion or who had refused to be included, and even one instance of a general's widow who signed her husband's name to the letter though he had died before the survey was published.

They were joined by 4 MEPs from the left-wing Danish Eurosceptic People's Movement against the EU, while the other regionalist MEPs, including those of the SDLP, the SVP, Batasuna and the Convergence and Union of Catalonia ( CiU ) refused to join.

They demanded annulment of the result of the October Parliamentary elections and disbanding of the Civil Guards, which the right refused.

" They also refused to serve in the military or attend Lutheran schools, choosing instead to teach their children at home.

They were nonviolent pacifists who refused to serve in the military and tried to live by George Rapp's philosophy and literal interpretations of the New Testament.

They refused to work for less than 10 shillings a week, although by this time wages had been reduced to seven shillings a week and were due to be further reduced to six shillings.

They always refused.

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

They never lived together and Mao refused to recognise her as his wife, becoming a fierce critic of arranged marriage.

They commenced proceedings in the High Court in 1982, in response to the Queensland Amendment Act 1982 establishing a system of making land grants on trust for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, which the Murray Islanders refused to accept.

They also objected to students being refused a high school diploma if they could not perform 36 separate mathematics skills, despite being given good grades in class.

They refused, and Honorius asked Roger II of Sicily to punish the city in May 1130, but Honorius died before action was taken.

They refused to divorce, and Honorius was forced to excommunicate Fulk and his son-in-law and to impose an interdict upon their territories.

They refused to do that, and the election was postponed.

They first refused to record another album ( offering up the four-track EP Poguetry in Motion instead ); O ' Riordan married Costello and left the band, to be replaced by bassist Darryl Hunt, formerly of Plummet Airlines and Pride of the Cross ; and they added a multi-instrumentalist in Terry Woods, formerly of Steeleye Span.

They left Elektra after the duo refused to do a publicity show, amongst other exposure-related disputes.

They refused to obey Motoyasu's commands and so he went to war with them, defeating their troops and pulling down their temples.

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

They began living together, as their respective spouses had each refused to grant either of them a divorce.

They are refused.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

They appeared to be the enemy.

They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

They didn't seem to be able to think of any.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

They also furnish proof that, in modern war, message sending must be monitored.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

They seemed to be at the White House half the time.

They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.

They would go to New York together, where parties would be piled on weariness and on misery.

They allotted $500,000 three years ago to support Interama until its own financing could be arranged.

They realize that by acting in concert, rather than individually, they will not be picked out as objects of retaliation -- economic and otherwise.

They shouldn't be asked to carry any more of the burden.

They did not view the tour of the distressed cities and towns by Secretary of Labor Goldberg as politics, which the GOP declared it to be.

They had been sitting too long to be able to stand up easily.

They assured him that they did not expect or need to be entertained.

They must be induced to establish the necessary tax, fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policies.

They must be persuaded to adopt the other necessary self-help measures which are described in the preceding section.