adamant refusal

There was no arguing against that; she read an adamant refusal in his whole stance.

In the end, his adamant refusal to consider death helped lead to the deadlocks on execution.

But his adamant refusal to answer other questions frustrated Democratic senators and liberal scholars.

What I didn't expect was her adamant refusal to return to the Vale with me.

Her adamant refusal of his offer indicated that she shared his feelings.

A knock on Daquan's door elicited an adamant refusal from inside to speak with reporters.

Despite the girl's adamant refusal, the grandmother insists.

Her adamant refusal to come out to her mother seriously threatens her new relationship.

His adamant refusal had been socially awkward.

It's not that hard to remain unknown, just another commuter, one who is conspicuous only in his adamant refusal to wear a red tie.

De Gaulle's call on the rebel leaders to end hostilities and to participate in elections was met with adamant refusal.

Pride, though, led to Strock's adamant refusal this year to take the Dolphins' contract offer, and he retired.

Simon's adamant refusals ("Give the Man whatever he wants, right, Dad?

It had been less than twenty-four hours since he had declared his adamant refusal to Beatrice, and yet it seemed like ages.

Charlie ordered him, but Martin's hands remained clenched on the rails at the head of the bed, and he shook his head in adamant refusal.

But energy industry officials expressed some wonderment at Mr. Cheney's adamant refusal to release the list of executives he met with.

The President was unable to lure back conservative Democrats because of his adamant refusal to drop a ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons.

Elrond's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly.

Part memoir, part essay collection, "The Accidental Asian" is remarkable for its adamant refusal to buy into the party line of identity politics.

The main point of contention was the adamant refusal of the Penns to countenance any tax upon their lands in Pennsylvania, even for provincial defense.

The Mexican government has repeatedly tried to classify it that way, but due to the adamant refusal of indigenous communities in the area this has not succeeded.

Surely among the reasons that impelled persons from widely different situations to frequent Jesuit confessors was the Jesuits' adamant refusal to charge for their services.

Prosecutors in the case believed Carruth hired Watkins and others to murder Adams because of her adamant refusal to abort their unborn child.

It had been Zack's compromise between the .22 Bill had wanted and his mother's adamant refusal to even consider giving a boy Bill's age a firearm.

The most compelling scene of the episode was Jimmy Palmer's adamant refusal to leave Ducky to the mercy of their kidnappers."