Refusal is a crime.

He gave a firm refusal.

He gave a flat refusal.

These conditions amount to refusal.

Your refusal to help complicated matters.

His answer amounts to a refusal.

He was so adamant in his refusal.

His reply was in effect a refusal.

I interpreted her silence as a refusal.

I was perfectly serious in my refusal.

We'll have our firm's attorneys look through the provisional agreement.

CA OK, so these are provisional numbers, no pricing guarantee.

She gave a flat refusal to my offer.

She gave a flat refusal to my offer.

Shoplifting is a refusal of the exchange economy.

Shoplifting is a refusal of the exchange economy.

He gave a flat refusal to his mother's request.

The power has been passed to the Provisional Committee of the State Duma.

But, as with his refusal to enforce our immigration laws,

What she wants to say just adds up to a refusal.

We have fading memories of that provisional temple, erected each time an adult sat down.

I had expected an outright refusal, but to my surprise she agreed.

A strike is a mass refusal to work by a body of employees.

Now these provisional structures have, in some cases, remained standing for the better part of a human lifetime.

And it is necessary, no matter how fragile or how provisional our consensus, to be able to move forward.

expressing the refusal of the residents to become a victim and the resolution to seek peace.

And because that flytower has the ability to pick up all the pristine elements, suddenly the rest of the environment can be provisional.

Could Muhammad have so radically changed his world without such faith, without the refusal to cede to the arrogance of closed minded certainty?

I take this very scientific attitude, that everything you've learned is just provisional, that it's always open to recantation or refutation or questioning, and I think the same applies to society.

And when they are called to the words of Allah and His Messenger to judge between them, at once a party of them turns aside in refusal .

There's another case called the McDonald case, where some victims of Semtex, of the Provisional IRA bombings, which were supplied by Gaddafi, sued, and that action has led to amazing things for new Libya.

They aim their pictures at your best instincts, generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable.

Answer the call of your Lord before there cometh unto you from Allah a Day which there is no averting. Ye have no refuge on that Day, nor have a ye any (power of) refusal.

And lo! whenever I call unto them that Thou mayst pardon them they thrust their fingers in their ears and cover themselves with their garments and persist (in their refusal) and magnify themselves in pride.

And verily! Every time I called unto them that You might forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, covered themselves up with their garments, and persisted (in their refusal), and magnified themselves in pride.

Though you Prophet may be eager to guide them, God does not guide those whom He lets go astray, because of their refusal to give a positive response to the truth . They will have no supporters.

but as for those who are bent on denying the truth after accepting the true faith and grow in their refusal to acknowledge the truth, their repentance will not be accepted. They are the ones who have gone far astray.

And We raised over them the mount for refusal of their covenant and We said to them, Enter the gate bowing humbly , and We said to them, Do not transgress on the sabbath , and We took from them a solemn covenant.

(Muhammad), if their refusal of the faith is so grievous to you and if you can dig up the earth or ascend into the sky in search of further evidence to inevitably make them believe you, you should have done so, but note that had God wanted, He could have made them all follow the same guidance. Do not ever be unaware (of this fact).

Or I think of Cynthia Thomas, a really loyal army daughter and army wife, who, as she saw her friends and relations coming back from the Iraq War, was so shocked by their mental condition and the refusal of the military to recognize and acknowledge post traumatic stress syndrome that she set up a cafe in the middle of a military town to give them legal, psychological and medical assistance.